WEEK 11. POSTMODERNISM, PRESERVATION AND URBAN POST-MORTEMS
 


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

READING:
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- 34,50-72, 118-9, 128-131
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)
Oscar Newman, Defensible Space (New York, l973)
Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter, Collage City (New York, 1975)
Mike Wallace, Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American. Memory (Philad., 1996)
Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (Cambridge, l995)
Charles Kibert, Reshaping the Built Environment:Ecology, Ethics, Economics (Washinton,1999)

QUESTIONS:

To Be Announced.

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