Planning Lessons of the American Dream: Historical Limitations and Democratizing Potential

Razni mediji su diljem svijeta prenijeli slike američkog pejsaža i njegovog obilja. Srž tih slika čini "američki san" sretnog i radinog domaćinstva gdje jedna obitelj živi u samostojećoj kući. Taj mitski ideal obiteljskog života je izgrađen u kontekstu političkog sustava i načinu planiranja koji su imali posve osebujan razvoj.Images of the American landscape, and of its prosperity, have been transmitted all over the world through various media. At the heart of these images is the "American Dream" of a happy, productive household living in a detached single-family dwelling unit. This mythical ideal of domesticity has been articulated and pursuied in the context of a political system and planning ideology that have evolved in unique ways

Planning Lessons of the American Dream: Historical Limitations and Democratizing Potential

Razni mediji su diljem svijeta prenijeli slike američkog pejsaža i njegovog obilja. Srž tih slika čini "američki san" sretnog i radinog domaćinstva gdje jedna obitelj živi u samostojećoj kući. Taj mitski ideal obiteljskog života je izgrađen u kontekstu političkog sustava i načinu planiranja koji su imali posve osebujan razvoj.Images of the American landscape, and of its prosperity, have been transmitted all over the world through various media. At the heart of these images is the "American Dream" of a happy, productive household living in a detached single-family dwelling unit. This mythical ideal of domesticity has been articulated and pursuied in the context of a political system and planning ideology that have evolved in unique ways

Streets of Islamic Cairo : a configuration of urban themes and patterns

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1981.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.Bibliography: p. 92-93.This study presents a closer look at a Muslim-built environment. It examines streets as one of the major structuring elements in a city. It traces the history and the physical development of three major streets in Medieval Cairo within the overall structure of the city at the end of each ruling dynasty. The hypothesis presented in this study is that streets in a Muslim city (Cairo) possessed some common themes and patterns that created for them a characteristic structure. The purpose of this study is to verify the existence of such a structure and to explore some of the implicit principles that may have governed its shaping The lessons learnt from the analysis of the street structure and its development, provide a better understanding of the history of a built environment and of the physical factors that shaped its urban form. Ultimately, it may be possible to generate from the study a general set of criteria ·which could identify the extent of traditionality in a given project. These rules could also assist urban designers in the formulation of design criteria extracted from the history of the built environment.by Nezar M. Al-Sayyad.M.S

Switching Managua on! Connecting informal settlements to the formal city through household solid waste collection

This paper explores the organizing of household solid waste management collection and disposal practices in informal settlements. It is based on a case study of an NGO project supporting Manos Unidas (―Joined Hands‖), an informal waste-picker cooperative in Managua, Nicaragua. Using horse carts, these people collect household solid waste from informal settlements where there was no previous regular, official waste collection. Unlike many development projects, which try to control people‘s agency, the support examined here focused on the residents of illegal neighbourhoods and the waste pickers, who themselves became city constructors and co-producers of basic services such as household waste collection, rather than service recipients of aid programs or municipal governments. By slightly changing the actions of the actors already involved in informal waste handling in the informal settlements, the project succeeded in transforming an agent of pollution into the solution to several interconnected problems: illegal dumping by the cart-men and residents, the cart-men‘s low and irregular income, and the lack of household waste collection services