A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
With the rediscovery of the periphery by architects and urbanists, a once vibrant, but recently dormant debate has been reactivated and (post)modernized. The contemporary polemic considers that the urbanistic paradigm currently operative across the metropolitan region and particularly in suburbia is producing an environment that is less than ideal. This article (re)presents some of the more salient aspects of the debate and considers several prominent alternative strategies in order to derive greater insight into a perplexing cultural dilemma: the prolonged inability of architects and urbanists to effect transformation that is synchronistic with the polemic's predominant socioeconomic and environmental perturbations. In conclusion, it advances a culturally specific strategy that offers a partial resolution.
With the rediscovery of the periphery by architects and urbanists, a once vibrant, but recently dormant debate has been reactivated and (post)modernized. The contemporary polemic considers that the urbanistic paradigm currently operative across the metropolitan region and particularly in suburbia is producing an environment that is less than ideal. This article (re)presents some of the more salient aspects of the debate and considers several prominent alternative strategies in order to derive greater insight into a perplexing cultural dilemma: the prolonged inability of architects and urbanists to effect transformation that is synchronistic with the polemic's predominant socioeconomic and environmental perturbations. In conclusion, it advances a culturally specific strategy that offers a partial resolution.
The Periphery and the American Dream
MacBurnie, Ian (author)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 48 ; 134-143
1995-02-01
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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