17 - Urban Planning Models Flashcards
What is knowledge?
Socially Constructed
All scientific knowledge is what?
Socially Constructed
What is technology not?
- NOT Some thing the exists outside of social relations (relationships)
- NOT Some thing that independently shapes social relations (relationships)
- Neutral, Natural, or inevitable
Technological advancements (and failures) are embedded in what?
Social relations (relationships)
What is technology?
- its DEVELOPMENT, DEPLOYMENT, LONGEVITY are all shaped by social relations
What are technologies development, deployment, and longevity shaped by?
Complex social relations
What is an example of social construction of technology?
Bicycle
5 Aspects of Urban Planning Model
- it is a SPATIAL model
- it is a SOCIAL BLUEPRINT
- it has a SYMBOLIC FUNCTION
- it SOLVES PROBLEMS and PROJECTS THE CITY INTO THE FUTURE
- it is a professional invention
Describe the 5 aspects of the urban planning model
- It is a spatial model
- 3 dimensions of absolute space: Width Length Height - It is a social blueprint
- makes some kind of statement about social ideals - It has a symbolic function
- symbolizes desirable urban values
- more of a free market model - It solves problems and projects the city into the future
- solves todays problems; model’s physical forms shape future outcomes - It is a professional invention
- Thomas Gieryn: Place Proffesionals
Give examples for the 5 aspects of the urban planning model
- it is a SPATIAL model
- plan may specify surface area of a residential zone, or specify the height of buildings - it is a SOCIAL BLUEPRINT
- utopian vision of social mixing; might glamorize the aesthetics and virtues of the past - it has a SYMBOLIC FUNCTION
- emphasizes elaborate government buildings might symbolize the virtues of the state
- emphasizes single, detached homes might symbolize the virtues of independence and individualism - it SOLVES PROBLEMS and PROJECTS THE CITY INTO THE FUTURE
- emphasizes that freeways might solve the problem of traffic congestion, while reinforcing automobile-dependency in the future - it is a professional invention
- architects, engineers, and planners come together to develop the plans that a planning model comes to represent
Who created the idea of the Garden City?
Ebenezer Howard
What is the Garden City
- low-density, highly planned areas driven my economic cooperatives
best of both worlds –> countryside and the city
Who is associated with Regional Planning?
Patrick Geddes and Lewis Mumford
What is Regional Planning
-Borders start to blur - communities coming together to form a city (think Vancouver)
REGIONAL PLANNING is:
- instead of planning cities –> plan urban regions
- planning should start with regional surveys so that planners can understand the past and present for a region, enabling them to plan for the future
In the past, N. American cities lacked what?
Monumental architecture and grand public squares
