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12. POSTMODERNISM, PRESERVATION AND URBAN POST-MORTEMS
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Historic preservation and the discovery of context; urban tourism; community design in the inner city and urban design in midtown; ecology and the green movement in cities; "urban problems".
*** Fourth assignment due
Paul Davidoff, "Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning," Journal of the APA (l965), rep. Richard T. LeGates, et.al., eds, The City Reader (New York, l996), pp. 42l-434
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Learning from Las Vegas (Cambridge,1972), pp.3-72
M. Christine Boyer, The City of Collective Memory (Cambridge, l994), pp. 394-420
Recommended:
Reyner Banham, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (London,
l97l)
Ian McHarg, Design with Nature (New York, l97l)
Charles Kibert, Reshaping the Built Environment:Ecology, Ethics, Economics
(Washinton,1999)
Francis Ferguson, Architecture, Cities and the Systems Approach
(New York, 1975)
Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter, Collage City (New York, 1975)
Oscar Newman, Defensible Space (New York, l973)
Kevin Lynch, City Sense and City Design: Writings, Projects (Cambridge,
l990)
QUESTIONS:
l. To what extent do you think post-modernism was a continuation or refashioning of urban modernism, a reaction to that aesthetic, or an autonomous new approach to urban design? Do you see the movement as fundamentally American or did Americans also draw from parallel movements in other countries?
2. Was urban post-modernism an effort to make cities work more equitably, taking account of multiple cultural differences? Did it (also) disguise or delegitimate these differences? What are the differences and similarities between post-modernism in architecture, urbanism, historic preservation and other professions or disciplines?
3. Was historic preservation principally a WASP movement in its early incarnations? If so, is this still the case and why? Are there different attitudes toward history and memory in different cultural or geographical groups and, if so, is it possible to take account of them in preservation policy? Is preservation inevitably caught up with commercial development or can it also be a force of resistance?
4. What is the meaning of public space in late-twentieth-century American cities? How can post-modern urbanism reclaim this domain?