ANTH 4701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Juscelino Kubitschek, Oscar Niemeyer, Indian Rebellion Of 1857
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Theoretical approach es to the city, anth 4701, fall 2018. Required readings: t he modernist city by holston; urbanism, colonialism, and the. World-economy by kin g; the death and lif e of great american cities; introducing. Urban anthropology 1st edi tion by rivke jaffe, anouk de koning. The white city - new delhi - grid system. Pre-industrial city of brazil: church and state in center, outer ring is commercial spaces, residences around it, no sense of zoning, modernism. Lucio costa - designer of brasilia: oscar niemeyer - student of costa, architect, 20th century architectural school, control urban chaos (open space) City as efficient machine (zoning) (cid:862)the atio(cid:374)al cit(cid:455)(cid:863) Legible - navigable, easy to read, easy to get around: utopian architecture. Superquadra: city"s basic residential unit; all equal, same fa ade, height, facilities, on columns (pilotis) Prevents hateful differentiation of social classes: death of the street, brazilianization off brasilia.
