Brasília and the ageing of modernism

Wright, Charles L.; Turkienicz, Benamy

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“…Unfortunately, they could only achieve perfection if the poor of the country were kept out. The results were dualistic: perfectly decent planned cities with wholly imperfect, albeit distant, unplanned, neighbourhoods (Holston, 1989; Macdonald and Macdonald, 1979; Peattie, 1987; Wright and Turkienicz, 1988). Experience in London, Paris, Brasília, Rio de Janeiro and virtually every other city in the world shows us that the ‘slum’ will always be with us; the ‘eternal slum’ as Wohl (1977) once called it.…”

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The Return of the Slum: Does Language Matter?

Gilbert

2007

Int J Urban Regional Res

367

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The 'cities without slums' initiative has resuscitated an old and dangerous term from the habitat vocabulary. Use of the word 'slum' will recreate many of the myths about poor people that years of careful research have discredited. The UN has employed the word in order to publicize the seriousness of urban problems and to improve its ability to attract funding with which to tackle the issue. But in using such an emotive word the UN risks opening a Pandora's box. The campaign implies that cities can actually rid themselves of slums, an idea that is wholly unachievable. The word is also dangerous because it confuses the physical problem of poor quality housing with the characteristics of the people living there. The UN knows that earlier research has rehabilitated most 'slum dwellers' but ignores the danger of conjuring up all of the old images. In the process, the campaign also offers an oblique invitation to governments to look for instant solutions to insoluble problems. Demagogic governments have always shown a willingness to demolish slums despite the fact that experience has shown that policy to be ineffective. I fear that the new campaign will encourage more to employ this foolish policy. Words need to be employed carefully. Copyright (c) 2007 The Author. Journal Compilation(c) 2007 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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The Return of the Slum: Does Language Matter?

Gilbert

2007

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…This failure is at its starkest where governments have begun afresh and tried to build brand new cities . Whether we consider Brasilia, Ciudad Guayana or Dodoma, the final product has not been an unblemished success (Peattie, 1987 ;Jensen, 1988 ;Wright and Turkienicz, 1988) . A recent book by Holston (1989) tries to explain how the flawed masterpiece of Brasilia emerged .…”

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Third World Cities: Housing, Infrastructure and Servicing

Gilbert

1992

Urban Studies

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“…Bewoners gebruikten de keuken, anders dan het ontwerp voorschreef, als eet-en conversatieruimte of behingen de muren met een bruinkleurig behang dat vloekte met het smetteloze wit en de projecties van zon, lucht en ruimte die de architecten voor ogen stonden (Llewellyn 2004). Ook bewoners van Brasilia eigenden zich gaandeweg de stedelijke ruimte toe (Wright & Turkienicz 1988). Bewoners wierpen allerlei visuele barrières op, zoals gordijnen en planten, om uit het zicht van anderen te blijven.…”

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Harde stad, zachte stad

Reinders

2016

Architecture and the Built Environment

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There is something irrevocable in architecture. In contrast with a painting or a musical play, one cannot alter an architectural work of art other than by blowing it up or pulling it down. Streets, buildings, squares and parks are part of the hard, physical environment in which we organize our lives. But why conceptualize architecture as a finished product? What happens when the plans have been drawn, the buildings completed, the public space decorated and the pictures taken for design journals and marketing advertisements? How does the ‘hard’ city of architecture and urban planning relate to the ‘soft’ city of residents and users? How do people appropriate the planned city and make it their home? The thesis ‘Hard city, soft city’ is an anthropological study on the role of images and symbolic representations in the social production of urban space in Nieuwland, a post-war neighborhood of Schiedam, which is undergoing a process of large-scale restructuring. A central theme of the book is the intersection between planned and lived space. That is, between the city as object of planning and policy and as an object of everyday identity formation. The architecture and urban structure of post-war neighborhoods have been subject of numerous publications, but it is striking how little we know about everyday life that has unfolded in the years after completion. The book sets out to approach urban space not only from a physical and architectural point of view, but also as a social and cultural domain which is claimed by various groups and institutions. This is examined through the images, symbols and stories used by professionals and residents to give form, meaning and substance to urban space, such as in branding and narrative cartography. Using the philosophical work of Michel de Certeau and Henri Lefebvre, the book examines how an anthropology of urban space contributes to our knowledge on the city, as a political object of policy, architecture and planning and as an everyday living environment.

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Brasília and the ageing of modernism

Cited by 8 publications

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The Return of the Slum: Does Language Matter?

The Return of the Slum: Does Language Matter?

Third World Cities: Housing, Infrastructure and Servicing

Harde stad, zachte stad

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