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C I TY G R E E N # 13
Planning Sustainability:
The Evolution of Green Urbanism
Text by Dean Saitta
Images as credited
urban
planning
from
the
standpoint
of
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The
p r i n c i p l e s s t r a i g h t , t r e e - l i n e d b o u l e v a r d s ,
d i a g o n a l s , s q u a r e s , p a r k s , a n d t e r m i n a t i n g
Haussmanns
conspicuous consumption.
And
therein
lies
the
flip
side
of
complex
mound-based
civic ethos. 5
to previous glory.
the city. 16
Sennacheribs
innovation
was
the
key
green
technological
sophisticated
consists
of
several
hydraulic
subsistence production.
polity
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Georges-Eugne
Baron
shared
power
horizontally
between
Haussmannisation.
His
projects
displaced
Working under
Emperor Napoleon III,
Haussmann used
baroque planning
principlesstraight,
tree-lined boulevards,
diagonals, squares,
parks, and terminating
vistas focused on public
monuments and civic
buildingsto open up
the city to air and light.
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Despite an admirable
green sensibility,
the Garden City concept
remains an inducement
to urban sprawl and
in practice has trouble
meeting its social
diversity goals.
green trees. 23
The
of
Le
Corbusier
was
but
desolate,
made
comeback
in
1998
on
the
windswept,
and
alienating
spaces.
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influence
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My
address
Infrastructural
Mohenjo-daro
in American cities. 32
London.
Haussmann,
does
not
development
Sennacherib
directly
at
anticipates
through
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restaurants,
and
suburban
malls.
and prosperity.
transit-oriented
developmentemerged
in
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evolution-urban-planning-10-diagrams/3851/
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Ayyoob Sharifi, From Garden City to
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Ibid.
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