PLAN10002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lewis Mumford, Urban Planning, Urban Renewal
23 Oct 2018
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Week (cid:576) lecture: history of urban planning urbanization - its temporal and spatial characteristics: More people are moving into more urban areas. Urban planning is a modern concept but its practice can be traced back to early settlements. Urban planning reacts to needs and/or problems of the day. Urban planners(cid:454) core concern has expanded from a single focus on physical planning to multiple foci on urban processes underlying the physical outcomes. Three broad periods as framework to discuss the history of urban planning: Issues started to arise creating a more livable city. History of urban planning - its long tail before the (cid:433)9th century: Lewis mumford believed that cities were formed in the transition from. Miletus, turkey, (cid:436)(cid:439)(cid:432)bc (cid:472)planned by hippodamus, (cid:453)father of urban planning(cid:454)(cid:473) Ancient cities in china (cid:472)beijing - about 7(cid:432)(cid:432)bc(cid:473) Cities were built around the palace/temple, to show the central power. Friedrich engels in his book, the condition of the working class describes.
