CRP 0807 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Radiant City
21 Sep 2016
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The geometry of urban form: the grid and the circle. Both the grid and circle have been prominent geometric shapes that have influenced the design of towns and cities through history. Circle: it is an enclosure that can only expand by creating another circle. Ex: circleville, ohio (1836: squaring of circleville: began as a means to redevelop the town through a series of replotting of original form in order to increase density and allow for expansion with in the community (1837- Conceptual models of a city form: kevin lynch, cosmic city: represents symbolic layouts that reinforce rituals, beliefs, it a cosmology in interpreting the universe. It also encompasses cities that represent a nation"s ideological process. Ex: washington d. c, tikal ad 600-800: practical city: functional machine that will be developed based on material needs or for commercial expansion purposes. Ex: american colonial and speculative grid towns and corbusier"s radiant city, palma.
