This document discusses the post-generic city and related topics over 17 sections. It begins by discussing the tension between identity and genericness in cities. It then covers statistics, general characteristics, airports, population, and urbanism of generic cities. Sections also address politics, sociology, quarters, programs, architecture, geography, and identity of generic cities. The document concludes by noting that the city is no longer and we can leave the theater now. It also lists relevant works from 1961 onward discussing critiques of modernism, urban design projects, and new urban concepts that have emerged over time related to generic cities and urbanization.
2. 1. introduction: identity vs. generic
2. Statistics
3. General
4. Airport
5. Population
6. Urbanism
the great originality …is simply to abandon what doesn’t work – what has
outlived its use – to break up the blacktop of idealism with the jackhammers
of realism and to accept whatever grows in place…
all GCs issue from the tabula rasa; if there is nothing, now they are there; if
there was something, they have replaced it. They must, otherwise they
would be historic.
7. Politics
8. Sociology
9. Quarters
in spite of its absence, history is the major preoccupation, even industry, of
the GC.
10. Program
11. Architecture
12. Geography
it is on its way to the south…
13. Identity
14. History
15. Infrastructure
16. Culture
17. End: the city is no longer.. We can leave the theater now.
3. 1961: Jane Jacobs: critique of modenism
1956: Harvard Urban Design
1968-70s: Utopia Projects: groups & books
1980s: urban experiments - design competitions
90s-2000s: rapid urbanization & new urban concepts:
S/M/L/XL
generic city & what happens to urbanism, & etc.
Now: Post-Generic City: regional study & scenarios
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8. Without a comprehensive vision the
reality will appear as a mass of
unrelated phenomena and
meaningless facts, in other words,
chaotic.
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There are three basic levels of
comprehending physical phenomena:
first, the exploration of pure physical
facts; second, the psychological impact
on our inner-self; and third, the
imaginative discovery and
reconstruction of phenomena in order
to conceptualize them.
O. M. Ungers, “City Mataphors”
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16. Communicating with clarity
…clarity of priorities is at the center of
the issue.
Collage
Diagram
Plan
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Peter Cook, “Drawing: the motive force of architecture
