Culture and Imperialism

From Garden City to Eco-urbanism: The quest for sustainable neighborhood development

Bibliography of urban history 2018

This symposium creates and stimulates new dialogue and cross-disciplinary exchange between planning theorists and geographers in researching the transfer of urban policy and planning models, ideas and techniques. The symposium challenges a restricted historical focus in much of the emerging geographical literature on urban policy mobilities by drawing on a rich tradition within planning history of exploring and documenting the trans-urban travel of planning ideas and models over the last 150 years. It is argued that this longer-term perspective is required to highlight important historical continuities and institutional legacies to contemporary urban policy circuits and pathways and to question what is particularly new, distinct and innovative about an intensification in the travel of urban ideas, plans and policies over the past decade — and the accompanying scholarly interest in them. The symposium also uses the emphasis on particular details and specific experiences within planning histories to foreground and develop approaches, particularly from recent geographical scholarship, that investigate the contingent and embodied practices and wider epistemic contexts that enable — or hinder — contemporary policy transfer.

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Planning Histories and Practices of Circulating Urban Knowledge

Urban design – overview Urban design is concerned with the design of the buildings, places, spaces and networks that make up our towns and cities, and the way people use them. Quality urban design leads to improved economic, environmental, social and cultural outcomes. By its very nature, urban design crosses over boundaries, integrating land use and transport. Urban design should be considered in relation to all sections of this toolkit.

城市设计 = Urban design

This paper analyses the city plant of Maringa PR Brazil, comparing and contrasting it with the English design of a garden city. Analyzing the city plant of Maringa, the original idea of a garden city, the formal solutions applied in new English towns such as Letchworth and Hampstead, compiled by Raymond Unwin in his treatment of urban designs, the research forwards the influences, similarities and adjustments involved in the principles of the city type in Jorge de Macedo Vieira’s urban design for Maringa

O desenho urbano de Maringá e a idéia de cidade-jardim

The northern region of Parana State, Brazil, was colonized by an English company during the second quarter of the twentieth century. British private investment was attracted to this little‐explored region following the advance into the west of Brazil and the expansion of coffee‐growing areas. As a fundamental part of this overseas land speculation enterprise, the whole territory was parcelled into small rural plots, a cluster of regularly spaced towns was founded and a railway line was built; only then immigrants were settled. Thus, systematic colonization, deliberate urbanization and town and country planning in advance of territory occupation can be seen. However, no formal evidence of this comprehensive colonization scheme has been found, apart from a few maps, some company documents, a large number of photographs and some scattered information. Hence, drawing upon the history of planning, cultural studies, imperialism/colonialism, British colonial towns and the Garden City Movement, this paper argues ...

A tropical enterprise: British planning ideas in a private settlement in Brazil

This article discusses some adaptations of the garden-city concept in Brazil and reveals how a foreign physical model was conveniently matched to specific civic purposes. The layout of three planne...

Brazilian Garden Cities and Suburbs Accommodating Urban Modernity and Foreign Ideals

Urban morphology is an interdisciplinary research field widely disseminated, even though the fundamental tools of a morphological analysis do not seem to have been properly systematized and spread throughout national academic publishing arena. Thus, this paper aims to facilitate the understanding of certain morphological concepts and their possibilities of application, beyond their original background in Geography, and through the perspective of Architecture and Urbanism. Therefore, some of the main instruments for studying urban forms will be stated, namely the basic elements of the city form and the concepts of building fabric, urban fringe belts, morphological region and townscape. Working as methodological tools, these concepts allow the understanding and characterization of the urban conformation, as well as its evolution and its transformations.

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A respeito de morfologia urbana. Tópicos básicos para estudos da forma da cidade - doi: 10.4025/actascitechnol.v33i2.6196

By 1950, the northern region of Parana State was an affluent settlement zone, due to the prosperous coffee-growing industry and a recent systematic colonization scheme, with its deliberate process ...

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Renato Leão Rego

Papers

O desenho urbano de Maringá e a idéia de cidade-jardim

A tropical enterprise: British planning ideas in a private settlement in Brazil

Brazilian Garden Cities and Suburbs Accommodating Urban Modernity and Foreign Ideals

A respeito de morfologia urbana. Tópicos básicos para estudos da forma da cidade - doi: 10.4025/actascitechnol.v33i2.6196

Importing planning ideas, mirroring progress: the hinterland and the metropolis in mid-twentieth-century Brazil