Zone Planning
"__ Even when their lives remain fixed in one geographical location (as is most often the case), their creativity and productivity define corporeal and ontological migrations. The anthropological metamorphoses of bodies are established through common experience of labor and the new technologies that have constitutive effects and ontological implications. Tools have always functioned as human prostheses, integrated into our bodies through our laboring practices as a kind of anthropological mutation both in individual terms and in terms of collective social life. (The contemporary form of exodus and the new barbarian life demand that tools become poetic prostheses, liberating us from the conditions of modern humanity.)__ "__Antonio Negri
About one of the first suburbs:
Levittown
"William J. Levitt did not invent the suburb. However, with his father and younger brother, he combined the
entrepreneurial spirit of Henry Ford with the self-promotional bluster of P.T. Barnum to change the American landscape. Levitt
revolutionized the home construction industry by unsnarling arcane building codes and union rules and employing new technologies
to get quality building jobs done fast and cheap. And he did it all with flair in the New York media spotlight. The mass-production
techniques, the niftily designed homes, the layout of the development grew from all the tricks of the trade. ..."
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The nomad
"__How many fantasies we have about doors! The door is an entire cosmos of the half-open. It is one of the primal images__"
__Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
"__The other side of a doorway differs radically from the inside of a doorway__"__David Kranes
Broadacre City
What should 21st century suburbia look like? What is its ideal density, the relation of its public and private parts, its provision for
natural areas?
One answer to that question "Broadacre City" > was announced 70 years ago. Broadacre City was Frank Lloyd Wright_s vision for
the ideal multicentered, low-density, auto-oriented suburbia.
more > Sem.Broadacre_City.doc
more > BroadacreCity.doc
Some historical background of the origin of desires:
The Garden City
At the end of the 19th century, Ebenezer Howard, the English inventor (as he liked to be called) reacted to the industrial city as follows:
more > GardenCity.doc
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The mixsphinx
One can also question whether life in the suburbs is shaped by the media, especially TV. And so one could express it
in an animative way: that the houses and interior installations of peopležs lives are self-imitating,
produced by TV studios. It is a circle, with extraordinary goals but no real individuality,
exchanging stories, filling and shaping our lives through stories. We are dependent on it.
About Walt Disneyžs utopian vision
EPCOT
(Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow)
... In the shift from Disney Worldžs fantasy Main Street to a real Main Street ... With no pretence to look high-tech, a great economy
is achieved. The architecture is in complete agreement with the housing industry...
more > mousetrap.pdf
more > epcot
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