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streets and the public realm:the car and the modern city
Tuesday 18 October rm M324
Univ. WestminsterUrban Design / International Planning
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1910s - WW1
1920s - futurism Metropolis Fritz Lang
1930s - Athens Charter 1933 - increased use of motor transport in cities - deaths
1950s - utopia of motorised highways - magic highway
1970s - cars dominate streets, highway protests ‘reclaim the streets’
1990s - cycling and rise of neighbourhoods - widening accessibility, disability activism
2000s - parkour and alleycat, carnivalesque rebellion2001 - urban terrorism NY WTC 9.11.2001,
2005 - urban terrorism London 7.7.2005
2007 - "collapse of fringe drivable suburban housing prices and mortgage collapse”*
2011 - The Arab Spring / Occupy Wall Street / OccupyLSX
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Task:write your five observations:how 'modern' occupation of inner city streetschanged, 1911-2011
What’s YOUR utopia?
@BesetzteStrasse
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The car and the modern city:streets
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September 2010U. Westminster
Urban Design MA
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student responses
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March 2011Oxford Brookes,
2nd year Architecture
History and Theory
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student responses
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Jane Jacobs 1916-2006
Link: Neighbourhoods in Action 9’47”
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NYC 1928
• Driving Around New York City - 1928
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Accidents / near collisions?• Driving licences?
• Appreciation of the Urban scene?
• Effect of time?• What and who comprises the urban street?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PAdQ5anhZE
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The car and the modern city:1. Metropolis 1928
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NYC 1928
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http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkqz3lpUBp0 (5’11”)
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Noir Urbanisms:Dystopic Images of the Modern City
Gyan Prakash, ed. (Princeton Uni Press)
"Like the Marxists and the liberals, Le Corbusier imaginedhumans working in square, utilitarian office blocks with nodecoration whatsoever, and their residential buildingswould be almost exactly the same... It is the vision of abrutal spirit."(Michel Houellebecq, The Map and the Territory , 2010)
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The car and the modern city:
utopia remix
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cities
• mobility – compressed space
• freedom to move
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upward social mobility?• labour saving ‘efficiency’ through proximity
• contribution to modern fossil fuel economy
• health and transport policy• lower settlement density possible
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The car and the modern city:
2. Magic Highway 1958
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cities
• injury
• anxiety
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loss of autonomy• effect on exercise
• pollution / environment
• health and transport policy• density of settlement
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The car and the modern city:
3. Parkour /Free Running
http://youtu.be/RmMPCbRuW2Y?t=20s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5j_DLh2f6E
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texts
• Vers une architecture, Le Corbusier c1923
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities 1961
• Buchanan Report - Traffic in Towns 1962
• Mixed Blessing: the Motor in Britain 1958
• Planning for Man and Motor 1964
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texts
• Vers une architecture, Le Corbusier c1923
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities 1961
• Buchanan Report - Traffic in Towns 1962
• Mixed Blessing: the Motor in Britain 1958
• Planning for Man and Motor 1964
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texts
• Vers une architecture, Le Corbusier c1923
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities 1961
• Buchanan Report - Traffic in Towns 1962
• Mixed Blessing: the Motor in Britain 1958
• Planning for Man and Motor 1964
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Chandigarh
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Perth
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Euston Road A501
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Task:write five things:how 'modern' occupation of inner citystreets changed, 1910-2010
what is YOUR utopia?
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The car and the modern city:
utopia remix
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Gregory Cowan
U. WestminsterMy research analyses inner-city mixed-use streets at all hours.
Urban regeneration in dense urban areas near transport hubs
are highly complex settings for balancing link and place
characteristic of streets, and for creating sustainable places,
to be purposeful for all seasons and all hours.
Case studies
Bahnhofsviertel (station district) in Frankfurt am Main with
Kings Cross station district in London.Analysis of street design processes and participation of
diverse actors through action / field research and modelling
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streets and the public realm:
the car and the modern city
@BesetzteStrasse
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Student responses / Feedback
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Student responses / Feedback 18.10.11