Urban Theories and Practices Flashcards
8 Urban Theories & Practices
*Garden Cities
*City Beautiful Movement
*New Capitals
*The Neighborhood Unit
*City of Towers
*Broadacres
*Radical Urban Ideas
*Contemporary World Urbanization
Who wrote Author of “Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Social Reform” (1898)?
Ebenezer Howard
It is clustered with a mother town of 58,000 to 65,000 with smaller “garden cities” of 30,000 to 32,000 each with permanent green space separating the cities with the towns serving as horizontal fence of farmland; rails and roads would link the towns with industries and nearby towns supplying fresh food.
The Garden City Movement
It is a polycentric settlement, growth without limit, surrounded by a greenbelt; town grows by cellular addition into a complex multi centered agglomeration of towns set against a green background of open country.
Social City
This combined the advantages of the town by way of access and all the advantages of the country by
way of the environment without any of the disadvantages of either.
Garden City
The first Garden City designed by
Raymond Unwin & Barry Parker
in 1902
Letchworth
Followers of Howard
SIR FREDERICK OSBORNE
RAYMUND UNWIN
BARRY PARKER
This opened in 1907 meant only for housing but with a variety of housing types lined along streets with terminating axes on civic buildings in a large common green
Hampstead Garden Suburbs
It called the 3rd garden city
Wythenshawe
Father of American City Planning
Daniel Burnham (1846
1912)
He spearheaded the movement with his design for Chicago and his famous words: “make no little plans…”
Daniel Burnham (1846
1912)
Golden era of urban design in the US
The City Beautiful Era (1900
1945)
According to Burnham, this City was a totally designed system of main circulation arteries, a network of parks and clusters or focal buildings or building blocks of civic centers, including the City Hall, a court house, a library, an opera house, a museum, and a plaza.
The City Beautiful Era (1900
1945)
He worked on the reconstruction of Paris: linear connection between the Place de Concord, Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower and others
Baron George Eugene
Hausmann
Capital of Brazil which was designed Designed by Lucio Costa with a lot of influence from Le Corbusier
Brasilia
It was designed by Louis de Soisson and brought formality and Georgian Taste
Welwyn
It was the capital of Brazil during 1763-1960
Rio de Janeiro
When was the official inauguration of Brasilia?
April 21, 1960
He was the chief architect of most public buildings in Brasilia
Oscar Niemeyer
He was the landscape designer in Brasilia
Roberto Burle Marx
Brasilia uses what type of architectural style?
Modernist Architecture
This is the only realized plan of Le Corbusier in India
Chandigarh
The original masterplan of chandigarh was made by whom?
Alber Myer
This idea was to create a series of superblocks, each around open green spaces which are themselves interconnected.
The Radburn Idea or New Town Idea
It is an island of greens, bordered by homes and carefully skirted by peripheral auto roads
Superblocks
It is typified by the backyards of homes facing the street and the fronts of homes facing each other over yards.
Radburn design
The neighborhood unit book is written by whom?
Clarence Perry
It is defined as the physical environment wherein social, cultural, educational, qnd commercial are within easy reach of each other concerns self-sustainability of smaller units
The Neighborhood Unit
