week 3 session 1 by Mahsa shirali https://padlet.com/shiralim/oeuwi492epd668wq How we can design timeless cities for our collective future en-us 2022-07-05 06:06:50 UTC 2022-07-05 09:55:18 UTC hello@padlet.com shiralim https://padlet.com/shiralim/oeuwi492epd668wq/wish/2237030050 2022-07-05 06:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/shiralim/oeuwi492epd668wq/wish/2237030050 shiralim https://padlet.com/shiralim/oeuwi492epd668wq/wish/2237124005 According to Vishaan Chakrabarti (2018), the newly built cities of the 20th century have not been as charming characteristically as older cities such as Paris, Shanghai, or Japure. He explains why current designs are not good environmentally. He asks why people in the 21st century should not live in well-designed cities for our collective future. He demonstrates that the suburbs of many cities actually have higher carbon emissions than transit-rich downtown areas with smart apartments. He argues that if people want to live in transit-oriented areas, cities should be more appealing. He claims that no cities of the 20th century were well- designed and the reasons are as follows:

The first reason is mass production. Everything was mass-produced, such as glass, steel, concrete, and asphalt.

Secondly, regulation. He suggests that there were unintended consequences of design in old cities, for example their lack of consideration for people in wheelchairs, but regulation to resolve such issues also had unintended consequences, such as many limitations on designers.   

The third reason is psychological, that is, the fear of innovation and difference that many clients of architects have.

He argues that we should start by injecting the local into the global. He suggests that people really do not want processed food, and asks why should they live in these mass-produced places.

He explains that technology has been part of the problem in the 20th century but now is part of the solution in the 21st century.

He recommends that the solution is modern cities with innovative technologies such as autonomous vehicles, drones and robots that could rescue people from burning buildings and hovercraft wheelchairs.

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