GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Fordism, Haus Wittgenstein, Birds Eye View
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Metropolis (1927): fritz lang"s bizarre but famous film set in a generic future modern city; a city of the imagination : flat world: the no place city. King and bay, toronto a global landscape; note the pure form: geometry in abstract space; idealised order. De-contextualised, the end of geography & history? the product of modernity: the enlightenment play of reason, geometry, science and technology. Simplification and standardisation in a new global building form: the modern movement in architecture, 1880, le corbusier"s 1922 sketch of the modern city: high rises; in a park; freeways; paeons to technology; bird"s eye view [cf. 38,000 extras in metropolis: the machine-age aesthetic: the cultural expression of industrial [fordist] society, rejection of traditional landscapes; 1908): form follows function, less is more, machine the prototypical cultural form: a house is a machine for living in a street is a factory for producing traffic [le corbusier].
