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WEEK 10. DEVELOPMENT AND DECENTRALIZATION: THE POST-WAR ERA
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Slum clearance; luxury apartments and convention centers in redeveloped downtowns; the turn toward expressionism and "new humanism" in design; "new towns in town" -- and beyond.
READING:
Catherine Bauer, "Do Americans Hate Cities?" (1956), rep. Architecture
California (Nov.1994)
Jane Jacobs, ÒDowntown Is for PeopleÓ in William H. Whyte, ed., The
Exploding Metropolis (l958; Berkeley, l993), pp. i-iv, 157-84
Carl Abbott, "Five Strategies for Downtown," Journal of Policy History
(l993): 5-27; rep. Mary Corbin Sies, ed., Planning the 20th-Century
American City (Baltimore, l996), pp. 404-427
Recommended:
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York,
1961)
Melvin Webber et al., eds., Explorations in Urban Structure (Philadelphia,
l964)
Francis Ferguson, Architecture, Cities and the Systems Approach
(New York, 1975)
Robert Beauregard, Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of US Cities
(Boston, 1993)
Peter Wolf, The Future of the City: New Dimensions in Urban Planning
(New York, l974)
Greg Hise, Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the 20th-Century Metropolis
(Baltimore, 1997)
Nicholas D. Bloom, Suburban Alchemy: 1960s New Towns and the Transformation
of the American Dream (Columbus, Ohio, 2001)
QUESTIONS:
To Be Announced.