New practice in urban design : from the symposium organised in collaboration with the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture
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New practice in urban design : from the symposium organised in collaboration with the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture
(Architectural design profile, no. 105)
Academy Editions , Distributed in the United States of America by St. Martin's Press, c1993
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Half a century of modernist planning activity has transformed the built environment, but has failed to capture the publics sympathies. The disillusionment with these new town proposals has been particularly evident in the last two decades. Projects once hailed as manifestations of a brave new global vision have shown themselves to be inadequate as long-term settlements. Most conspicuous in the new developments has been the absence of a sense of place. By zoning towns into distinct and unrelated sectors, modernist planning divided and polarized community life. The growing public disillusionment with post-war town proposals has helped to bring about alternative views in the architectural and planning professions, views which embrace traditional towns as models for new developments. These older models have been carefully studied by a new generation of professionals who introduce into urban design the idea of neighbourhoods with a diversity of communal, commercial and residential functions.
The use of traditional urban models has resuscitated age-old questions about continuity and change in the relationship between architecture and the city, the setting of new towns and villages in the natural landscape, and the dialogue between built form and communal open spaces. Despite the growing public support that traditional urban town have enjoyed, some critics have claimed that these models cannot work today, as they fail to address contemporary social and technological issues. The Symposium debate, presided by Brian Hanson, brings together some of the world's leading theorists and practioners. Four major new projects are used for the focus of the discussion, namely the new town of Windsor at Vero beach, Florida, by Anders Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk; the masterplan for Potsdamer and Leipziger Platz in Berlin by Christoph Sattler; the Belvedere Village in Ascot by Demetri Porphyrios; and the new town of Poundbury in Dorchester by Leon Krier and the Duchy of Cornwall.
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