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streets and the public realm:the car and the modern city

Tuesday 18 October rm M324

Univ. WestminsterUrban Design / International Planning

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1910s - WW1

1920s - futurism Metropolis Fritz Lang

1930s - Athens Charter 1933 - increased use of motor transport in cities - deaths

1950s - utopia of motorised highways - magic highway

1970s - cars dominate streets, highway protests ‘reclaim the streets’ 

1990s - cycling and rise of neighbourhoods - widening accessibility, disability activism

2000s - parkour and alleycat, carnivalesque rebellion2001 - urban terrorism NY WTC 9.11.2001,

2005 - urban terrorism London 7.7.2005

2007 - "collapse of fringe drivable suburban housing prices and mortgage collapse”* 

2011 - The Arab Spring / Occupy Wall Street / OccupyLSX

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Task:write your five observations:how 'modern' occupation of inner city streetschanged, 1911-2011

What’s YOUR utopia? 

 @BesetzteStrasse

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The car and the modern city:streets

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September 2010U. Westminster

Urban Design MA

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student responses

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March 2011Oxford Brookes,

2nd year Architecture

History and Theory

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Jane Jacobs 1916-2006

Link: Neighbourhoods in Action 9’47” 

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NYC 1928

• Driving Around New York City - 1928 

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Accidents / near collisions?• Driving licences?

• Appreciation of the Urban scene?

• Effect of time?• What and who comprises the urban street?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PAdQ5anhZE  

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The car and the modern city:1. Metropolis 1928

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NYC 1928

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http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkqz3lpUBp0  (5’11”) 

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Noir Urbanisms:Dystopic Images of the Modern City

Gyan Prakash, ed. (Princeton Uni Press)

"Like the Marxists and the liberals, Le Corbusier imaginedhumans working in square, utilitarian office blocks with nodecoration whatsoever, and their residential buildingswould be almost exactly the same... It is the vision of abrutal spirit."(Michel Houellebecq, The Map and the Territory , 2010)

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The car and the modern city:

utopia remix

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cities

• mobility – compressed space

• freedom to move

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upward social mobility?• labour saving ‘efficiency’ through proximity 

• contribution to modern fossil fuel economy

• health and transport policy• lower settlement density possible

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2. Magic Highway 1958

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8jZtwRJnRs  

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cities

• injury

• anxiety

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loss of autonomy• effect on exercise

• pollution / environment

• health and transport policy• density of settlement

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The car and the modern city:

3. Parkour /Free Running

http://youtu.be/RmMPCbRuW2Y?t=20s 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5j_DLh2f6E 

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texts

• Vers une architecture, Le Corbusier c1923

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities 1961

• Buchanan Report - Traffic in Towns 1962

• Mixed Blessing: the Motor in Britain 1958 

• Planning for Man and Motor 1964

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texts

• Vers une architecture, Le Corbusier c1923

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities 1961

• Buchanan Report - Traffic in Towns 1962

• Mixed Blessing: the Motor in Britain 1958

• Planning for Man and Motor 1964

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texts

• Vers une architecture, Le Corbusier c1923

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities 1961

• Buchanan Report - Traffic in Towns 1962

• Mixed Blessing: the Motor in Britain 1958

• Planning for Man and Motor 1964

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Chandigarh

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Perth

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Euston Road A501

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Task:write five things:how 'modern' occupation of inner citystreets changed, 1910-2010

what is YOUR utopia?

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utopia remix

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Gregory Cowan

U. WestminsterMy research analyses inner-city mixed-use streets at all hours.

Urban regeneration in dense urban areas near transport hubs

are highly complex settings for balancing link and place

characteristic of streets, and for creating sustainable places,

to be purposeful for all seasons and all hours.

Case studies

Bahnhofsviertel (station district) in Frankfurt am Main with

Kings Cross station district in London.Analysis of street design processes and participation of 

diverse actors through action / field research and modelling

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@BesetzteStrasse

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Student responses / Feedback

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