URBAN DESIGN: THEORIES AND PRACTICES ALE 2022

"Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Social Reform"

• Daniel Burnham

• Robert Owens

• Ebenezer Howard

• Albert Meyer

Answer explanation

GARDEN CITY:

Permanent green space separating cities and towns

Which is not a garden city?

• Letchworth

• Welwyn

• Hampstead Garden Suburbs

• Champs d' Elysee

Answer explanation

Letchworth: Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker

- 4500 Acres (3000 agriculture, 1500 City Proper

Welwyn: Lois de Soisson

- brought formality and Georgian taste

Hampstead Garden Suburbs:

- meant only for housing

Emphasis on grand formal designs with wide boulevards, civic spaces, arts, etc.

• Garden City

• City Beautiful Movement

• New Capitals

• The City of Towers

Designed by Lucio Costa with influence from Le Corbusier

• New Capitals

• Brasilia

• Chandigarh

• Canberra

Answer explanation

Brasilia: Brazil

- two huge axes in the sign o the cross (gov't., commerce, entertainment, residential)

Chandigarh: Punjab

- Master plan by Albert Meyer

- only realized plan of Le Corbusier

- largescale application of Radburn principle

Canberra: Australia

- Principles of the City Beautiful Movement

New Delhi: India

- by Sir Edward Lutyens

Based on east west axis of Kingsway

Unite d' Habitation

• The city of towers

• Broadacres

• Arcology alternative

• New capitals

Answer explanation

Unite De Habitation by Le Corbusier

- First plan for high density living

- a superbuilding with 337 dwellings in 10 acres of land

Proposed that every family live in 1 acre of land

• broadacres

• mile high tower

• archology alternative

• the city of towers

Mile high tower

• le corbusier

• hippodamus

• albert meyer

• frank lloyd wright

Soria y Mata

• Floating City

• Stalingrad

• The Linear City

• The Archology alternative

Stalingrad

• Albert Meyer

• Soria y Mata

• Paolo Soleri

• N.A. Milyutin

Archology Alternative

• Floating City

• 3D City

• Linear City

• Volgograd

Answer explanation

Archology Alternative by Paolo Soleri