VART 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Calvert Vaux, Sweatshop
12 Oct 2018
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Factors that play a role in the shaping/planning of cities: religion, geography, protection. Symmetrical, extended indefinitely, easy to calculate, practical. Ignores geographical variation, topography, and artistic vision, architecture. 1811: city decides to put together a commission to organize the future growth of the city. 1840s public campaign for green space led to central park. 1858: frederick law olmsted and calvert vaux won landscape design competition. Placed in the trickiest topography of manhattan city. More creative than manhattan, but less efficient. 1845: french social reformer wrote about how paris is sweatshop of putrification w/o sunlight or air. Terrible place where plants shrivel and perish . Prefect of the seine department in france. 1853: chosen by emperor napoleon iii to renovate paris. New boulevards, parks, sewage system, and public works. Completely shapes paris to be the city we know today. Cross the city from north to south.
