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"A perfect place" is a research into three different models of architecture, city planning and urbanism that appeared in England in the last century. It is a subjective insight in different utopian models of ideal cities and related ideologies. In 1902 Ebenezer Howard published his "Garden City of To-morrow" with famous drawing of three magnets that explained his ideas and vision. Letcworth is the very first example of new model for the city: a Garden City. It was a result of utopian aim and vision to build alternative community. Garden City was a "building bloc in the progressive reconstruction of society as a whole". The garden city movement was against state ruled society and capitalistic production; they rather supported a network of communities and cooperation within desire to replace mass production. New estetic program of "brutalism" (South Bank, London) is an utopian model and visions of modernism. Concrete city is a paradigm of architecture as subjective artistic expresion. The genious visions that comes before the needs of the human beings who have to use them or as Le Corbosier puts it: "A house is a machine for living." Milton Keynes is the largest town of 32 new
built towns in Britain since 1946, officialy designated 1967. It is an
English version of American freeway-linked city (Los Angeles) with a clear
message (as you can read it from the local commercial announcement): "no
more neighbourhoods, just a city with a wide range of oportunities...
each citizen can select his ideal life style.."
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