Historical, political or economic context in which the plan/project is proposed Garden City. Agapitos argues that was influenced by the International Garden City conferences so as to design the first garden city in Greece, that of Ekali. Site selection criteria were the low cost of land due its long distance from Athens’ centre as well …
Historical, political or economic context in which the plan/project is proposed Urban Regeneration: Unification of 4 Athenian city blocks. Stamos Papadakis advocated apartment buildings on large city blocks, and offered a designed example of a colonie urbaine, a U-shaped scheme following the CIAM formulas. Maintaining that typical Athenian city blocks of sixty by forty meters …
Historical, political or economic context in which the plan/project is proposed Dozens of newt towns were planned by the military regime along the recently opened Transamazonian Highway in 1972. The governmental colonization enterprise was based on garden city ideals and rationalist urban form. In 1974 the whole project was abandoned. Bibliography Rego, R. L. Ideas …
Historical, political or economic context in which the plan/project is proposed The division of Cyprus along ethnic lines in 1974 saw the occupation of the island’s two major tourism hubs (Kyrenia and Famagusta) and cast the spotlight on Limassol as the key to restarting tourism development and the recovery of the country. Angelos Demetriou, a …
Historical, political or economic context in which the plan/project is proposed When in the late 1960s and 1970s, millions of Chinese people were sent to the countryside as part of the Cultural Revolution, Dazhai became the model of what the socialist countryside should have been. After a 1963 flooding, the village was entirely re-organised by …
Historical, political or economic context in which the plan/project is proposed After the People Republic of China was established in 1949, the city of Shanghai underwent a radical transformation from a consumer-oriented city to a socialist production city where the industrial working class was prominent. Starting from the construction of Caoyang New Village, 6,000,000 m² …
Historical, political or economic context in which the plan/project is proposed The Independent Building Organization of Officers (AOOA) of Greece was founded in 1950 to establish a general housing program for officers and implemented a large number of residences. The Military technical services created new settlements away from the urban centers, within the natural environment, …
Historical, political or economic context in which the plan/project is proposed Montbau housing estate is one of the few high quality ‘polígonos’ built with modernist principles in Barcelona, contrasting with the poverty and inflexibility of most of the urban layouts of these working class housing ensembles, which reflected a rigid interpretation of modern architectural tenets. …
Historical, political or economic context in which the plan/project is proposed After the earthquake of December 26, 1908, Giuseppe Torres carries out a reconstruction project for the entire city of Messina by patenting a construction system for anti-seismic houses. The particularity of the patent consists in the unusual circular-shaped plans of the proposed modules. Bibliography …
Historical, political or economic context in which the plan/project is proposed Pontinia is the third of the New Towns built in Agro Pontino after the reclamation of the Pontine marshes. It was part of a larger territorial scheme based on the triad city-village-farm (città-borgo-podere), aiming to develop a new agricultural productive system and a new …