Unforeseen Urban Worlds

摘要

To say that the framers and participants involved in Harvard's 1956 urban design conference had no premonition about the rates, venues, circumstances, directions, and underlying logics of urbanization that have since transpired around the world is probably an understatement. In all fairness, however, their broad aim was inclined toward finding "a common basis for the joint work of the architect, landscape architect and city planner in the field of urban design," as they put it, particularly in response to what they identified as "the frequent absence of beauty and delight in the contemporary city" and "the need for better knowledge of the coming physical form of the city."