Environmental social and economic issues-module 2 Flashcards
Typical Town patterns
- Rectilinear pattern: originated in agricultural societies. Derived from the logic of parallel furrow plowing (parallel lines that the machine does when moving earth). It also
suited the logic of ordered planning, property ownership, and building construction.
Used often but not always for agricultural settlements. - Circular pattern: derived from practices of herding societies: the necessity of enclosing
the maximum amount of land with the minimum amount of fence. It is also suited for
the logic of economical fortification. Used often but not always for military installations. - Radiocentric: it is a consequence of incremental urban growth, radiating from a center
and expanding outward to an urban periphery.
layout of Roman Cities
Location: Town’s location depended on the productivity of the surrounding regions & territorial control for strategic land areas. Layout: Used the rectilinear form of blocks to form a town. Security: Enclosure wall were regular General: Had 2 main intersecting streets: cardo and decumanus.2 types of Roman towns: Commercial town/oppidum, Military camp/castrum
Earlier Medieval Cities
-Location: Often built on the foundations of pre-existing Roman outpost towns. -Layout: started at the crossroads of 2 main streets. The town adjusted to the site conditions⇒ irregular shape that seemed to lack geometrical order. Towns were founded and planned with the use of orderly geometry (rectilinear, circular and radiocentric). Medieval cities were organized around the church and the market. -Security: Towns are walled for defense and depended on hygienic practices (i.e. waste removal)
Later Medieval Cities
Security: the invention of gunpowder
required more protection
Star-shaped City: regularly spaced bastions at points around the wall so that the entire enclosure and all approaches to the city could be defended. Streets radiated from out from the center allowing the defense to be controlled from one point and easy movement of materials and troops.
Renaissance Planning
- reference to the classical world
- central public plaza as design service. Urban core!
- star shaped fortification (military fortification design)
- PROHIBITS GROWTH. EX PALMANOVA ITALY
Baroque planning
General: The concept was applied
first for forest landscapes and later
applied to towns. Begins in Italy
-Connector: Boulevards were used to unite the various parts of a larger, often expanding city. -Focus: Plazas were used as a convening public forum in a compact town. Strong central axial. Grid street layout. Example \: Vista avenues in Versailles used in French landscape architecture to make large expanses of terrain visible (Berninis St. Peters Basilica in Rome. London, Washington
Industrial Revolution
Factory System: work force had to
be close to the factory, source of
power, and transportation =
population increase in factory town → overcrowding, filthy, devoid of
open space, and recreational
activities. Industrial citiy, Kansas City , Missuri
Garden City Concept
General: result of the reform movement and published by Ebenezer Howard in 1898.s Concept: combine the best of the city and country -living in his town-country idea.
Cite Industrielle Concept
General: result of the reform
movement and published by Tony
Garnier in 1917. 1st concept to emphasize the idea of zoning
-Concept: it is a model industrial city. It suggests the separation of work from housing; separate zones for residential, public, industrial, and agricultural use, linked by separate circulation paths for vehicles and pedestrians. Buildings would be placed on long narrow lots with ample open space between them.
Gridiron Street system
General: encouraged by the Ordinance of 1785 which established the rectangular survey system /ubiquitous system of the USA. The system divided the country into a
grid of Checks- 24 miles square, each subdivided into 16 townships (6miles on a side), each further divided into 36 sections (1mile square)
-Concept: regularly planned public open spaces and uniform spacing and setbacks of buildings.
New Town Concept
Concept: it is an extension of the idea that entirely new communities can be built away from the crowding and ugliness of existing cities. These new towns were suppose to be autonomous centers surrounded by a greenbelt, but they never became truly independent because they lacked significant employment centers; they still depended on nearby cities for jobs
New Urbanism
Concept: attempt to counter the many undesirable aspects of city development (urban sprawl,
automobile dependence, environmental deterioration,
housing segregation, loss of farmland, single use development.
One of the primary design features is the development of neighborhoods intended for mix use. It promotes the connection of neighborhoods and towns to regional patterns of bicycle and public transportation, and pedestrian systems. It encourages buildings to be integrated with their surroundings, and supports the preservation and reuse of historic structures.
Sir Christopher Wren
Master plan for rebuilding the city of London after the Great Fire of 1666 (not used)
Designed 51 churches in the city of London
Work: St. Paul’s Cathedral (1710)
Kevin Lynch
Coined the words “imageability” and “wayfinding”
Wrote The Image of the City which influenced urban planning and environmental psychology
Christopher Wolfgang Alexander
Wrote A Pattern Language which describes a practical
architectural system called a “generative form”. The reasoning is that users know more about the buildings they need than any architect could; the “pattern language” is designed to empower anyone to design and build at any scale.
Jane Jacobs
Wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities which is a critique of urban renewal policy of the 1950s and how they destroyed communities and created isolated, unnatural urban spaces.
Jacobs advocated the abolition of zoning laws and restoration of free markets in land, which would result in vibrant, dense, and mixed-use neighborhoods and communities
Frequently cited Greenwich Village as an example of a vibrant urban community
Coined phrase “eyes on the street” a reference to natural surveillance by people in their neighborhood
Camillo Sitte
Authority on urban construction planning and regulation in Europe
Wrote City Planning According to Artistic Principles which suggested that the quality of urban space is more important than architectural form (the whole is much more than sum of its parts)
Planning cannot be done in 2D, but IN 3D.
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
Responsible for the plan to rebuild and “modernize” Paris under Napoléon III
Rebuilding of Paris plan inspired some of the most important architectural movements including the City Beautiful Movement in the United States
Encompassed all aspects of urban planning, both in the city center and in the surrounding districts.
Cut down the Luxembourg Garden and destroyed much of the old city with twisting streets and rundown apartments.
Built new wide tree lined boulevards. Placed regulations on facades/heights of buildings, public parks, sewers/waterworks, facilities and monuments.
Influenced by the frequency of street revolutions, now streets were too broad for rebels to build barricades and military could assemble and get through
Tony Garnier
Wrote Une Cité Industrielle which suggested that functions of a city could be separated by zoning into four categories: leisure, industry, work, and transportation
Was developed in response to the industrial revolution
Schools and vocational schools are placed near the industries they’re related to, and there are no churches or government/ police buildings so man can rule himself.
Pioneered the use of reinforced concrete
Designed innovative building block with free standing houses
Enormous open spaces. There are few squares or parks
Trees are incorporated into important streets
Designed Hall Tony Garnier in Paris, Lyon-1905
Urban planning
Sir Ebenezer Howard
Wrote Garden Cities of To-morrow which describe a utopian city
where people live harmoniously with nature, the basis for the Garden City Movement.
The book offered a vision of towns free of slums and enjoying the benefits of both town (such as opportunity, amusement and good wages) and country (such as beauty, fresh air and low
rents). He illustrated the idea with his famous Three
Magnets diagram (pictured), which addressed the question ‘Where will the people go?’, the choices being ‘Town’, ‘Country’ or ‘Town-Country
It is based on radial precintual pattern!
Sir Ebenezer Howard
Wrote Garden Cities of To-morrow which describe a utopian city where people live harmoniously with nature, the basis for the Garden City Movement.
The book offered a vision of towns free of slums and enjoying the benefits of both town (such as opportunity, amusement and good wages) and country (such as beauty, fresh air and low
rents). He illustrated the idea with his famous Three
Magnets diagram (pictured), which addressed the question ‘Where will the people go?’, the choices being ‘Town’, ‘Country’ or ‘Town-Country
Pierre Charles L’Enfant
Designed the layout of the streets in Washington DC
Submitted plans for the federal city in Washington DC that followed Baroque planning elements including grand radial avenues, sight lines, ceremonial spaces, and respect of natural contours of the land. The two most important buildings on the avenues were to be the houses of Congress and the White House.
Visual connections would be made down avenues to ideal sites throughout the city, including buildings, monuments, and fountains
Was dismissed of his duties and city plan was awarded to surveyor Andrew Ellicott, who’s revisions became the basis for the development
In 1901 a partial redesign of the capital used L’Enfant plans, including the development of the national mall where his largest avenue was originally intended.
Daniel Hudson Burnham
Director of works and designed the general plan of the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago
Designed one of the first skyscrapers: the Masonic Temple Building, which was 21 stories tall, and a skeleton frame
Designed the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington DC, as well as the Monadnock, Reliance Building,
and Rookery offices
Prepared the Plan of Chicago which laid out plans for the future of the city to controlled growth and suggested that every citizen should be within walking distance of a park
Helped with the McMillan Plan which led to the overall design of the national mall in Washington DC
*Chicago School and City beautiful movement
*terra cotta tiles
Clarence Samuel Stein
Architect /Urban Planner/Writer
Major proponent of the Garden City Movement in the USA
Collaborated with Henry Wright to design Rayburn, New Jersey a garden suburb noted for its superblock layout and for the total separation between the automobile and the pedestrian.
Henry Wright
Landscape Architect
Major proponent of the garden city, an idea characterized by green belts and created by Sir Ebenezer Howard
Wright became one of the core members of the Regional Planning Association of America, along with Clarence Stein, Lewis Mumford, and Benton MacKaye, and it was this association that led to Wright’s most well-known work
Lewis Mumford
Historian/Author
Believed that what sets humans apart from animals is not our use of tools, but our use of language/symbols.
Critical of urban sprawl and argued that the structure of modern cities is partially responsible for social problems seen in western society. Argues that urban planning should emphasize organic relationships between people and their living spaces
Said the medieval city should be the basis of the ideal city.
Modern cities are too much like Roman cities (a sprawling megalopolis) which ended in collapse.
William Van Alen
Movements Art deco. Concepts Tiered crown
Designed the Chrysler Building in NY.
HH Richardson
Movements: Romanesque, Chicago School.
Materials Terra cotta tiles with geometric/ foliate design. Masonry skin over iron frame.
ex. Marshall Field store, Chicago, and Trinity Church, Boston
Luis Sullivan
Movements Modernism, Chicago School.
Materials: Load Bearing Masonry.
Ex. Opera Auditorium building, chicago based on Marshall Field store
Le Corbusier
French.
Movements: Modernism, International Style
Concepts: Golden Section, Contemporary City, Radiant City. Five points: Free Facade, Strip windows, roof garden. New spirit (opposed Zeitgiest and Art Deco)
Materials: Reinforced concrete
Ex. Notre Dame Du Haut in Ronchamp (funny concrete building with a pick pointing out)
Ex. Unite d’habitation, 1945 France first housing unit. (Massive concrete building)
Buck minster Fuller
Movements: Neo-futuristic
Concepts: Geodesic Dome
Ex. Dymaxion House, aluminum manufactured low-income housing
Frank l Wright
Movements: Chicago School and Prairie School
COncepts: Broad acre City
ex. Usonian House, Low-income, single story
Fay Jones
Movements: Chicago School and Prairie School
Materials: Indigenous wood
ex. Thorncrown Chapel, Arkansas
What happen after the civil war with the cities?
Industrial towns were created. Also transportation centers, worker settlements, garden suburbs, urban parks, and urban transportations.
What happened with the growth of the American “standard of living”
Decline of “primary population” (farmers, miners, raw material extractors)
Growth of secondary population (factory workers)
-increase of tertiary (service workers)
Precintual planning pattern
Stems from the center of the city is allowed to expand in all directions. Flexible but can lead to urban sprawl
Transect planning
Separates a city into six linear zones that gradually transition from a heavily dense urban center to natural habitat areas along the city edge. It focuses on conservation of the environment by placing areas with greatest pollution at the farthest point from natural spaces
Literary movements:
- historicism
- zeitgeist
- deconstruction
Historicism: post modernism. Founder Steven G
- zeitgeist: similar designs-go with the flow
- deconstruction: provide different perspectives with one building
Urban planning
Parks movement
Initiated by Calvert Vaux and Frederick law Olmsted ie. Central Park and prospect park
Baltimore, Maryland
- ‘monument city’ Washington monument axially centered layout.
- precintual radial growth
Savannah Georgia
- planner: James Oglethorpe
- land divided into wards
- wards divided into tything and trust blocks
- square contain historical structures
- military inspired
Kansas City, Missouri
Industrial city
Arcosanti, Arizona
- experiment in arcology
- arcology: architecture to meet ecology
Seaside, Florida
Planner: Andres daunty and Elizabeth player zyberk
- based on new urbanism
- radial and grid
Road types
Local street, collector street, arterial street, expressway