Modernister. Løgnere?
Det dreier seg om arealplanlegging. Der bygninger og veier skal spres utover landskapet, tetthet skal bestemmes, betingelser for kommunikasjon legges og dette analyseres opp mot ideologi, tradisjon og nytenking, der er det ganske spennende. Jeg anbefaler særlig å lese den ene artikkelen av en av forfatterne av Why they hate us der forfatteren gir en kort oppsummering av ny urbanismenes hodestanging mot andre disipliner. Selv har jeg en torn i siden til modernistene. Operaen i Oslo er for meg et forunderlig og unikt eksempel på ett bygg som fungerer ideologisk, estetisk, fysisk og funksjonelt, på tross av sitt modernistiske opphav. Operaen er fornøyelig. Operaen er likevel ikke en så sentral del i mitt liv, at den gjør at jeg kan tilgi modernistene den sjeletømmingen og ørkenspredningen de bedriver i det urbane landskapet. Nei. Ny urbanistene hater jeg ikke. De er snille.
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Unfortunately, despite the authors’ disclaimers, The Smart Growth Manual gives ample grounds for this fear. Duany and Speck cite, apparently approvingly, outright bans on everything from cul-de-sacs to “snout houses”—those with the garage in front, which would seem to be, from a functional viewpoint, an entirely logical place for the garage in today’s suburbs. They concentrate, moreover, on only a few elements of the urban fabric. Despite talk of complete and diverse neighborhoods, the messier parts of vital cities—from the neighborhood bar to the 7-Eleven in the suburban strip mall—seem to be missing.
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The Mods include anyone who cannot brook the traditional building styles found in many New Urbanist developments. While most New Urbanists feel that buildings have an obligation to communicate the spirit of their place, most Mods feel that buildings must communicate the spirit of their time, and that revivalism is a lie. Never mind that some of their favorite buildings are Greek revival (Roman) or Roman revival (Renaissance); we must not repeat this once-acceptable act of bringing tradition into the present. While the charter of the Congress for the New Urbanism is careful to remove style from the debate, many New Urban communities, like the Kentlands in Maryland, attempt to embody and evolve the architectural traditions of their region. Duany is quick to remind us how, while most of us were trained in architecture school to serve clients and patrons with sophisticated designs, nobody prepared us for the vast collection of customers that we would take on when we tried to reform the middle-class market.
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To drive to Kentlands from historic Georgetown is a disappointment, but to drive there from sprawling Tyson’s Corner is a revelation. That experience, and the hard slog that led to it, is what keeps us in the fight.
Why They Hate Us A New Urbanist dissects the movement’s critics
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It’s the Mods, therefore, who are being dishonest and fake, by attempting to pretend that all sorts of phenomenon don’t exist, such as the law of gravity, the laws of thermodynamics, the local weather, and even the desires of the humans that inhabit their buildings.
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