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new urbanism
Constant Nieuwenhuis
A growing discrepancy can be observed between the standards applied in allocating urban space and the real needs of
the community. Town-planners and architects still tend to think in terms of the four functions of the city as defined
by Le Corbusier in 1933: living, working, traffic and recreation. This oversimplification reflects opportunism rather
than insight into and appreciation of what people actually want today...
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basic program of the bureau of unitary urbanism
Attila Kotanyi, Raoul Vaneigem
Urbanism doesn’t exist; it is only an “ideology” in Marx’s sense of the word. Architecture does really
exist, like Coca-Cola: though coated with ideology, it is a real production, falsely satisfying a falsified need.
car culture and the landscape of subtraction
Philip Goff
Owning and driving an automobile has become a prerequisite for conformity in our popular culture. To
not drive in America is seen as aberrant behavior. Using mass transit is for people too poor to own an automobile, or for
big city dwellers who deem the auto commute inefficient. Riding a bicycle is seen as either a recreational act, or only as
a method for children and pre-teens to get around. Walking on a country road or a suburban strip, where seldom doth a
sidewalk appear, immediately elicits suspicion.
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