GEOG 152 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Raymond Unwin, Le Corbusier, Urban Planning
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This chapter considers how plans and planning have affected the cities of europe over the past one-hundred years or so. He thinks that the reorganization of a city is meant to suit the need of the elites and to disenfranchise those of the common man. Focused on efficiency, minimalism (in cities, and in residential neighborhoods) in the housing. Living in cities = opens up possibilities; rural idiocy (karl marx concept) = rural life is banal and offers no possibilities. Charles dickens" hard times; talked about the alienating effects of urban life in north. London; he captured the disappointment of a life in an industrial city. London, 1880s-90s decided to change the physical environment through social engineering of the city; a bureaucratic apparatus for achieving a society"s goal. Down until the late nineteenth century planning was usually a byword for the imposition of an aesthetic order on a city, typically in its monumental core.
