A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Urban Sights
From Outdoor Streets to Interior Urbanism
In the aftermath of World War II, society confronted a global calamity of over 60 million dead, great cities reduced to rubble, and displaced persons on the move. The extent of destruction was far more extensive than previous wars, with much of Europe and East Asia left in ruins. In the early postwar years, political and economic shifts spawned a new world order that initiated unprecedented approaches to central city planning and development. Regeneration of urban cores gained urgency as urban planners and architects rethought the function and configuration of commercial streets to optimize flow. Master‐planned subway systems, underground cities, skywalk networks, megastructures, hermetic hyperspaces, and shopping malls embodied design characteristics influenced by the Space Age. The results of this shift have been widely critiqued in terms of their impact on the urban scale as buildings that shaped cities externally. The emergence of an identifiable parallel urbanism, however, simultaneously transformed cities through primarily internal means.
Urban Sights
From Outdoor Streets to Interior Urbanism
In the aftermath of World War II, society confronted a global calamity of over 60 million dead, great cities reduced to rubble, and displaced persons on the move. The extent of destruction was far more extensive than previous wars, with much of Europe and East Asia left in ruins. In the early postwar years, political and economic shifts spawned a new world order that initiated unprecedented approaches to central city planning and development. Regeneration of urban cores gained urgency as urban planners and architects rethought the function and configuration of commercial streets to optimize flow. Master‐planned subway systems, underground cities, skywalk networks, megastructures, hermetic hyperspaces, and shopping malls embodied design characteristics influenced by the Space Age. The results of this shift have been widely critiqued in terms of their impact on the urban scale as buildings that shaped cities externally. The emergence of an identifiable parallel urbanism, however, simultaneously transformed cities through primarily internal means.
Urban Sights
From Outdoor Streets to Interior Urbanism
Massey, Anne (editor) / Marinic, Gregory (author)
2019-04-12
25 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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