Architecture Matters by Aaron Betsky

Author:Aaron Betsky
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780500773871
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Published: 2017-02-17T05:00:00+00:00

WHY UNDERSTANDING SPRAWL MATTERS

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Where we should start changing the world is with the landscape that it is most difficult to understand. Since World War II, a tide of ticky-tacky houses has spread out from almost every major metropolis in the world. These constructions have very little relation to their particular sites. Although they might look slightly different in the United States than they do in Europe or Asia, the principles are the same. Developers buy up land, flatten it, remove whatever is there, and put up houses that are all more or less the same and often identical. Built as cheaply as possible, they have become bigger, but not better, over the years. They can usually work only because of air conditioning and other technology. Finally, they are laid out not according to a grid that would draw them into a larger whole, nor in relation to the land, but to create inward-turned groupings that make people feel both safe and free.

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