Creating community

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Chapter 9 in Creating Cities/Building Cities, 2017, pp 146-164 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter we discuss how cities used architecture to create community among many individuals sharing the same urban context but frequently not related by family or background and origin, as would be more frequent in rural communities. The chapter starts with a discussion of two projects designed during the first wave of industrialization and urbanization. Architectural interventions in residential areas were largely intended to provide decent housing and socialization for a growing urban lower class. In these years, the prewar utopist ideals of architecture, planning and community were frequently associated with the construction of mega-structures. Examining examples from the postwar period, we see the emergence of two aspects that are still relevant for contemporary architecture: first, large size, as we will see with the mega-buildings in many residential peripheries; second, the emergence of “archistars,†as the large interventions were frequently ideated and led by famous personalities.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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