GGRA03H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Garden City Movement, Le Corbusier, Urban Design

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Utopia an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The history of urban planning is a history of urban utopias. datta, madgin and sabhlok. Urban planning: a set of process (technical, political, infrastructural) organized to manage urbanization and metropolitan change, often through design and the planned organization of land uses, transportation systems and municipal networks such as parks and sewers. Ebenezer howards vision of achieving slum less" and smokeless" cities. The garden city movement was meant to lure people out of the big city of london. The countryside would be filled with communities where small and limited amount of cooperation can flourish a direct democracy. Early 20th century architect and urbanist, charles-edouard jeanneret ( le corbusier") Wanted to address rapid growing slums" in paris (as well as crowding, and congestions) He had a lot of influence on the twentieth century re-development in paris, particularly the.