Final test Flashcards
Edge City
Has five million or more square feet (465,000 m²) of leasable office space.
Has 600,000 square feet (56,000 m²) or more of leasable retail space.
Has more jobs than bedrooms.
Is perceived by the population as one place.
Was nothing like a “city” as recently as 30 years ago. Then it was just bedrooms, if not cow pastures.”[2]
new jim crow
New social system in which african americans are put behind bars and keep falling victim to current legal system and become almost “second class citizens”
upton’s explanation of riots
says that this is the only way for a disgruntled youth to convey their dissatisfaction with the system
deindustrialization
process of social and economic change caused by the removal or reduction of industrial capacity or activity in a country or region, especially heavy industry or manufacturing industry
reasons for ruin of Detroit
White flight, deindustrialization,
metabolists
- post war architectural Japanese movement
- “burnt ash”
- 5 principles (regeneration, city as process, utopian, mega structure, group form)
- 4 projects (1970 osaka expo, kikutake, tange, kurokawa)
- shipping container design is big
- currently going through revival
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
- Venturi won pritzker prize and wife denise wasn’t included
- strong critique of elite design
- work was very stale and dull, almost life sucking yet they thought it was revolutionary
- thought highly of las vegas and lloyd wright
- their legacy embraced more modesty
Venturi and Brown 5 principles
existing, pop culture, eclecticism, visual communication, participatory
archigram
- began in 1960’s London
- very combative of traditional architecture establishments
- influential but built little
- eclectic postmodern style
- recaptured thrill of early modernism
- started neo-avantgaurd
principles of archigram
- equipment; it should be interchangeable spots
- movement; pods, billboards
- make it new; add ons and playing
- make it fun
- popular participation
projects of archigram
- plug in city (1964 capsule housing,Peter cook )
- walking city (herron)
- instant city (culture of excitement )
Kevin Lynch
- went to yale, mit
- wanted to shape cities for enjoyment
- similar to jacobs in his ideals
- believed that a final plan of a city should never be created and that that would be a death of a city
- ADAPTABILITY
5 key elements of Kevin Lynch
- path
- edges
- districts
- nodes
- landmarks
impacts/legacy of Lynch
- planners now consider his 5 elements
- planners now have a more empirical focus
- take public opinion into account during process
Jerde
- Famous for the “jerde transfer”
- considered most famous shopping center designer in history
- disneyland was huge influence*
- tried to make the ordinary shopping almost theatrical
- “urban stage sets”
- one of the most famous pieces was “the grove” in LA
- a billion people go into a jerde each year
- changed entire consumer game
