GEOG 122 Lecture 21: GEO 122 MAR 1ST LECTURE NOTES
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A more intellectual attempt to create a global culture around the enlightenment ideals of rationality, science, technology and an optimistic belief in human progress and democracy. The modern movement in architecture and planning, around 1880 - 1930, an attempt to create a global culture through the landscape of the universal city, simplified and standardised so that it was the same everywhere. The essence of modernity: sculptured geometry, the perfection of anonymity. There are no clues: no regional styles or building materials, no historic or cultural icons. Pure geometric forms: rectangle, plane, spheres, diagonal, intersecting and floating in some abstract space. It is space not place, stripped of culture it is radically decontextualized. Some ideal order, the product of abstract reason, the pure sculptural form, abstract modern art. One of the most famous landscapes of the modern movement in architecture and planning. Creative years, 1880-1930; progressive belief in reason, science, technology for improving the human condition.
