Photourbanism: Planning the City from above and from below

Bridge, Gary (editor) / Watson, Sophie (editor) / Vidler, Anthony (author)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 656-666

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

2011-02-25

11 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch57

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

Le Corbusier, aerial photo of Eiffel Tower ‐ balloon flight in 1909, for cover of L'art décoratifd' aujourd'hui , Lamorisse's classic movie Le Ballon Rouge , new forms of regional city, freeways ‐ aerial photograph affording dramatic support , photourbanism, planning the city ‐ from above and from below , distinct evolution in Le Corbusier's thought ‐ in the airplane, a model for architecture, machine of planning , moments in modernist history ‐ aerial view in its planning role by Le Corbusier ‐ and not entirely successful opposition to this vision in 1950s and 1960s , photography, cities in aerial shots ‐ bringing crockets and figures, from Gothic cathedrals , problem of the house ‐ how to pose it and how to solve it , aerial view of city, in Chombart's terms ‐ synthetic vision of its social space–“l'espace social” , photography in urban planning ‐ new key, debates over demolition and reconstruction