City History

Question 1

Functions of GreenBellt

Answer 1

1930. Food reserve. Denying growth of city, and instead a satelite city

Question 2

Songjiang

Answer 2

Copy of English town…Photogenic, Chinese couples take wedding pictures there.

Question 3

Nolli Plan

Answer 3

Made all non building in black so it shows a city with all its areas. Important but don´t know why

Question 4

Retrofitting

Answer 4

Fix infrastructure where it is lacking.

Question 5

Surgical Urbanism

Answer 5

Caracas in Venezuela, transport lines in Meddelin.

Question 6

Features of Pre industrial cities

Answer 6

Walls, Axis, Square (markets),Street Grid (asia Minor 500bc) Cloisters.

Question 7

Green Arteries

Answer 7

Cut up the old districts with big boulevards. Trading, more connections, ppl moved outside their district (!) And the flañeur is born. Sanitary, less smelly and Good for Military.

Question 8

Landmarks: Significance

Answer 8

Is it important?

Question 9

Landmarks: Integrity

Answer 9

Can it show it is important? building materials, correct surrounding to play w/ its uniqueness.

Question 10

Landmarks

Answer 10

Churches and old houses designed by Great White Men! but Now is the narratives diverse.

Question 11

Why Adaptive Re-use

Answer 11

Reduce Urban Sprawl, Save the embodied Energy. Preserve Meanings, Memories, Histories.

Question 12

Facadism

Answer 12

Re-doing interior completely giving it no character or no sense of the old.

Question 13

Honest (Re-use)

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Add ons, be made contemporary styles and clearly distinguishable from the older layers. Eg. Pyramid in Paris by Pei. Altough critic for

Question 14

Re use of churches

Answer 14

AMsterdam was very religious, they have converted a church to a bookstore, feeling of old mysteries lurking in the shelves and the luminous ceiling watching over you.

Question 15

Derelict. Industrial heritage In germany

Answer 15

In Germany have they reused one power plant for a tivoli.

Question 16

Difference between old and new factories

Answer 16

The old ones where built with pride, and ornaments. Built to last forever. They provided work for a whole city, and sometimes built the whole city. New ones are built for some thirty years.

Question 17

Ideas of new factories

Answer 17

Build re-packable! or with good materials, and ornamentals. For keeping for future.

Question 18

Visions: Technological cities: Where comes the inspiration

Answer 18

Current tech seems to inspire people. Escalators and elevators!!!! (Freud based his stuff on Steam Engine).

Question 19

Constructivism in Soviet: Misschiefs

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A flying city, Inspired by mass industry. 60s of cold war, apollo and Sputnik. and TinTin on the Moon. with Leisure and greenery on the earth. There where also walking cities

Question 20

Kenso Tange: Japanese Vision

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Metabolists: Mega structures like trees for every cities. Also the idea of modular growth, grow linearly with 90 degrees build ons, on water.

Question 21

What is Instant city

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Rock music, disco. Bringing sound and light to Cities and then going to next city. Like a carneval but more largescale.

Question 22

Vision:Eco cities: Lilypad

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A regugee: A green dynamic shape with glass ceilings floating around in the seas. For the filthy rich.

Question 23

Vision:Eco cities: Mas dar

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A walled in city using high tech and greenery to be carbon neutral at its operation. It is like a closed bubble with relays opening and solar cells directing to the sun. A smart city. For the filthy rich.

Question 24

Bentham panopticon

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to have perceived surveillance of all, who is the guard looking at? a circle prison. One is built, so some sort of visionary building, following an idea.