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A 6 page paper discussing modernism as it applies to LeCorbusier and Ebenezer Howard, followed by the post-war critiques of modernism by Venturi, Superstudio and Rem Koolhaas. Of these three, Venturi's observations have the greatest basis in real life for real people. Superstudio imposes unrealistic values and Koolhaas chooses to go along with the masses, many of whom have no values at all. Peace and comfort are not part of either equation; peace and comfort also were missing from the modernist designs. Some of the visual effects are worth keeping, but the context and the imposition of values were not. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSarchiCityMod.rtf
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The "utopians" of the past envisioned new cities that placed people where the utopians believed they should be placed. LeCorbusier designed a plan that would place luxurious high-rises
around a large green area. This is where the wealthy would live; the underlings of society would be in smaller spaces on the outskirts of the city. He
recognized that cars would want to be in and seek out the middle sections. Ebenezer Howard devised a plan for "smokeless, slumless cities"
in which governmental offices and other public concerns would occupy the center, which would be ringed with collections of living and working groups to create a hub-and-wheel design. Individuals
working within a specific pod would have no necessary reason to leave it, because all work and services would be near their homes. Travel would be minimal in that
everyone working in a pod also would be living there. Slums would be eliminated because the elite would be resident within each pod as well as those lowest on
the socioeconomic scale. LeCorbusier and Howard The "masterpiece" of LeCorbusiers purist design, Villa Savoye, was designed as a private residence that is utilitarian
and industrial in both appearance and flavor, though a commentator notes that "it is a complex and visually stimulating structure" (LeCorbusier - Villa Savoye, n.d.) even though it does look
"severe." Other, less charitable words could be cold or barren. Certainly there is a collection of innovations contained within the structure, but its overall effect is that it
has no soul. Freestone (n.d.) believes that Ebenezer Howards views have value for urban planning in China as it continues its rapid industrialization.
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