ASC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Neighbourhood, Radiant City, Semilattice

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Architectural Science
• Course: ASC 103
• Professor: George Kapelos

Document Summary

Unit 8 architecture as an agent of social change: 8. 1 the city as a value system. The city as a system: the street and the neighbourhood. Jane jacobs the death and life of the great american city . Christopher alexander a city is not a tree . The street and the neighbourhood: jane jacobs, 1916 2006 died but that she remember her by reading. Upon her death her family"s statement noted: what"s important is not that she lived, and that her life"s work has greatly influenced the way we think. The death and life of the great american cities. Jacobs constructs the book by description, anecdote and analogy. The narrative of life in new york is the narrative about life in any city. The man and the girl having a disagreement in the street. The death and life of the great american city: a critique of orthodox planning. Mixed use, small blocks, buildings of many ages, concentration.