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The Role of Utopian Projects in Urban Design

Ganjavie, Amir

Utopian studies, 2014-04, Vol.25 (1), p.125-149 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Título:
The Role of Utopian Projects in Urban Design
Autor: Ganjavie, Amir
Assuntos: Architectural control ; Architecture ; Cities ; City planning ; Ecological sustainability ; Sustainable cities ; Urban design ; Utopian fiction ; Utopianism ; Utopias
É parte de: Utopian studies, 2014-04, Vol.25 (1), p.125-149
Descrição: Utopian thinking has always played a central role in the literature of urban design, with utopians being the first urban designers. Moreover, many utopian projects throughout history have, until recently, been a research laboratory for the urban designer. This article aims to understand the role that urban utopias can play in thinking about the structure of contemporary cities. To do this, it compares two cases:KM3by MVRDV andThe Local Projectbook by Alberto Magnaghi. This analysis suggests that the utopian approach has two functions for the contemporary practice of urban design: First, it provides a unified external standard of criticism to diagnose urban challenges by looking at the city as a whole, and, second, it provides an approach in which catastrophic scenarios can be used to educate citizens.
Editor: Pennsylvania State University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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