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WEEK 7. THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST AND THE C.B.D. (Central Business District)
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Investment, predictability, exclusion and the invention of zoning; the culture of business; the design implications of the automobile, the slab city/spread city of the Regional Plan Association of New York; regulations to protect free market capitalism.
*** Second assignment due
READING:
Thomas Adams, Building the City, v. 2 of the Regional Plan of
New York (New York, 1931), esp. pp. 112-22
Max Page, The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 (Chicago,
1999), pp 52-67
Carol Willis, "Zoning and Zeitgeist: The Skyscraper City in the l920s,"
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 45 (March
l986): 47-59
Recommended:
Robert Fishman, ed., The American Planning Tradition: Culture and Policy
(Washington,2000_
David A. Johnson, Planning the Great Metropolis: The 1929 Regional
Plan (London, 1996)
Robert Fitch, The Assassination of New York (New York, l993)
Robert Park, Ernest Burgess, and R.D. McKenzie, eds., The City (Chicago,
1925)
Carol Willis, Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines (New
York, l995)
M. Christine Boyer, Dreaming the Rational City (Cambridge, l983)
John D. Fairfield, The Mysteries of the Great City: The Politics of
Urban Design, 1877-1937
(Columbus, Ohio, 1993), esp. pp. 117-240
QUESTIONS:
To Be Announced.