ARC333H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Oak Park, Illinois, Frank Lloyd Wright, Camillo Sitte
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Fixing: wipe down what is existing and replace with something new. Q problem with fixing: straw man logic (make something opposite to what is existing and that is the only juxtapose of why you make it. The big fix: in order to solve the problem of city center, you hav to think big. The regional fix: landscape and ecology of city. Radiant city: cut out the original hyper dense fabric of paris and replace with towers and parks. Irony of modernism, works on the logic of modernism. Straw man-take the worst of whatever exist, proposal tends to be opposite: the industrial city: polluted, over crowded - open space and fresh air, idealic utopia, suburban sprawl: - density, new urbanism. 3 quality of the expanded city: public transit, cheap long term mortgages (facilitated by state, make ppl able to afford houses), relationship b/t private and large public development.
