MUMFORD, LEWİS (1962).

HOME

REMEDİES FOR URBAN CANCER.

Municipal projects;

-Partial physical improvements have been made,

caused social stratification,
-The residences in these projects are 10-20 storeys and gloomy buildings.
-The apartments have 2 rooms, they receive sun and open air, they are insect-proof,
and their features such as hot and cold water meet the needs of a family. hygienic
conditions are provided?!
-In the first shantytown, which was deliberately built, it was observed that infant
mortality and infectious diseases were high (overcrowding, lack of rooms, lack of
closed toilets, etc.).

Like Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs also drew attention to the depressing results of these
housing estates. In fact, although there are many points on which they agree, they also
differed.
Jacobs believed the essence of urban form was "organized complexity." There was a sort
of "unplanned casualness" at the core of urban life. She focused on the street - how to
make it safer, how to enhance human contacts on it, how to make it a place for
assimilating children. As for parks, squares and other "planned" urban forms, Jacobs
expressed guarded skepticism at best. In fact, her book attacks most attempts to envision
new urban forms - eg., the City Beautiful movement, the Garden City promoted by the
English journalist Ebenezer Howard, Radiant City promoted by the French architect Le
Corbusier.
Mumford was himself a critic of many attempts to beautify cities. But he also believed that
order was preferable to disorder, that beauty was preferable to ugliness. He took
particular umbrage with Jacobs's treatment of the Garden City ideas of Ebenezer Howard.
Mumford accused Jacobs of being obsessed with criminal violence in the city while
overlooking the true pathologies of the city - overgrowth, materialism, congestion and
"insensate disorder". Furthermore, Mumford accused Jacobs of "aesthetic philistinism" - of
not caring for planned open spaces and architecture. For him, London, Paris, and Rome
were great cities because they have beautifully planned public squares and parks as well
as great public architecture - cathedrals, city halls, museums, and so on.
A key difference between Mumford and Jacobs was on the question of walking in the city.
For Jacobs, the existing street grids were the focus. She wanted shorter blocks, a greater
mix of uses to enhance pedestrian activity. Mumford was a proponent of the superblock -
rebuilding cities on the basis of exclusive pedestrian areas separated from traffic.

As a result according to

mumford

4.
2.
If our urban civilization is to escape progressive dissolution, we shall have to rebuild it from the
ground up. Certainly we shall have to do far more than alter street plans, humanize housing
projects, or give wider geographic distribution to economic activities. Since such a general
transfornation will affect every aspect of life, urban politics and planning must of course play an
active and significant part.

GİZEM GEÇMEN 215023027012