Enhancing suburban life with Victor Gruen
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2024
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The essay deals with the theme of the prejudices that prevent us from designing vibrant suburban spaces and argues that we should rediscover Victor Gruen’s lesson in doing so. The first part analyzes the consequences determined by the advent of the car and the urban explosion on public spaces. The second section of the essay develops a critical reflection on the way we look at suburban collective spaces and proposes a change of perspective. The concluding section of the essay contains some specific proposals, of a planning and normative kind, to improve the quality of collective suburban spaces.
Keywords: urban explosion; public places; collective spaces; non-places; Victor Gruen
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