Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Pro-social architecture/design (Socialist ideas for a new city (American…

- - - - Can develop transportation and infrastructure.
      - Can decide how to go about urban renewal and economic re-development.
      - The primary concern is the public welfare,[1][2] which includes considerations of efficiency, sanitation, protection and use of the environment,[1] as well as effects on social and economic activities. In developing any plan for a community (whether commercial, residential, agricultural, natural or recreational), urban planners must consider a wide array of issues including sustainability, existing and potential pollution, transport including potential congestion, crime, land values, economic development, social equity, zoning codes, and other legislation.
      - Can use discretion to provide or withhold planning permission for new developments.
      - Can institute building codes for public health.
      - Can design public spaces and built communities.
      - Can impose land use regulation (i.e. housing standards, zoning)
  - - - Departments
        
        Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity: This office enforces Federal laws against discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability and familial status.
        
        Public and Indian Housing: This office administers the public housing program HOPE VI, the Housing Choice Voucher Program (formerly – yet more popularly – known as Section 8), Project-Based Vouchers,[20] and individual loan programs housing block grants[21] for Indian tribes, Native Hawaiians and Alaskans.
        
        Community Planning and Development: Many major affordable housing and homelessness programs are administered under Community Planning and Development. These include the Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), the HOME program, Shelter Plus Care, Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG), Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy program (Mod Rehab SRO), and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA).
        
        Housing: This office is responsible for the Federal Housing Administration; mission regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; regulation of manufactured housing; administration of multifamily housing programs, including Supportive Housing for the Elderly (Section 202) and Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities (Section 811); and Healthcare facility loan insurance.
      - Criticisms
- - - - Inflatables: inexpensive, portable shelters made of vinyl. Chip Lord later realized that this was a direct response to brutalism, the dominant rectangular concrete behemoth architecture of the times. The balloonish “dreamcloud” architecture was described by the artists and the people who experienced it as temporary, nomadic, malleable, and even sensual.
      - rejection of Modernism's formalist architectural rigors
  - - - Proximity to public transit
      - Physically handicapped
      - Engagement with local community in planning process
    - - Reduce carbon emissions
      - Prepare for inevitable climate change
      - Adaptable spaces, purposes, and materials
    - - Responding to local community's needs
      - Using local materials/resources
      - Emulating local styles
    - - Ingenuity in design and aesthetics
- - - - Brutalism
      - Neoclassicism