GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Le Corbusier, Grain Elevator
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Lecture 16: the modern city: a global cultural landscape. Came from a project by modern artists and architects: they have a lot of knowledge in modernity. The modern city as a global landscape: a more intellectual attempt to create a global culture around the enlightenment ideals of rationality, science, technology, and an optimistic belief in human progress and democracy. The ideology behind global culture circles around enlightenment: the modern movement in architecture and planning, around 1880- 1930, an attempt to create a global culture through the landscape of the universal city, simpliied and standardized so that it was the same everywhere. If you create a landscape with these ideals then the city would change for the better: these cities did not exist, they were just thought of, there were imaginations of what the cities looked like. Standardized and simpliied: now all cities look pretty much the same because they are standardized and simpliied.
