The Promise and Pitfalls of Contemporary Planning

CRP 2000

February 11, 2014
by Anni Zhu
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Dongtan New Town: The Relationship between Public Housing and Decentralization

By Boram Lee During the 20th century, many planners attempted to modify city policies as well as community development with new ideas and techniques. Numerous factors, including the rapid population and urban growth, have shaped contemporary planning to accommodate people … Continue reading

February 11, 2014
by Anni Zhu
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Songdo I: Why is the ideal city failing?

By Doris Byeon Songdo International City The South Korean government envisioned South Korea as a Northeast Asia business hub of knowledge and service-oriented economy with high technology. The Korean Ministry of Finance and Economy, in 2002, published a document to … Continue reading

February 5, 2014
by Anni Zhu
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Casablanca II: Defining Modernity: The Urban Context of Casablanca

By Patrick Braga (For a historical background on this historiographical and theoretical analysis of the story of Moroccan urbanism discussed in this post, please read The History and Legacies of Urbanism in Casablanca first.) Modernism, modernity, and modernization as intertwining … Continue reading

February 5, 2014
by Anni Zhu
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Casablanca I: The History and Legacies of Urbanism in Casablanca

By Patrick Braga Morocco has long been described as a laboratory for modernist urban planning. Under French colonialism, Moroccan cities became experiments for ideas and visions of how cities in France could come to evolve within a perspective of modernist … Continue reading

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