The Language of Urban Form, with Michael Dennis

[@verticalmatt]

it is relevant to clarify that cows in south central France do drink red wine; but do not take plunge baths

[@miguelhastings911]

Brilliant! Thanks, also for acknowledging the contribution of landscape architecture to urban experience. So many architects / commentators overlook it.

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[@felixguerrero6062]

This a very important lecture. We need to rejuvenate our cities across the globe along these principles.

[@aghia5709]

Thanks for the recording!

[@williamrossarchitecture3219]

An excellent informative lecture. I learned a lot thank you!

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[@hellomate639]

Solid lecture. I'm quite sold on the idea of making urban housing a lot denser and more harmonious in the USA. I've had the feeling for a while that with our modern technology, we ought to be able to create absolutely stunning towns and cities, marvels of unrivaled beauty to last generations. Instead we build glass façades, and other buildings that won't last. The modern world leaves a void of beauty to be filled. Dictators have attempted to fill this void with grotesque monuments, and gain a great deal of their power by doing so. I think this speaks to the fact that there is a vacuum. A citizen satiated with his or her society would not support such a person if they had a sense of wonder, grandeur and progress in their daily lives. New architecture and urban planning should try to hit on fixing the problem of life feeling mundane and the problems of climate change. It might also hit on the reality of disease. Dense, tight, compact places are problematic, however, it seems as though smaller townships with clear borders might be able to enforce their own quarantines in times of pandemics, allowing a small town or city with clear borders to return to some sense of normal life relatively quickly, aside from not being able to leave town. When I see some of those ancient layouts with clear boundaries, it seems to me as though they'd be relatively resistant to things like disease as long as it's kept outside the walls; or, if it makes it in the walls, a quarantine could be enforced until the illness runs its course.

[@felixguerrero6062]

100% agreed. I fear however that the engrained car-culture will always make creating genuine urban environments, almost impossible in America. It's a very hard shift, because cars are too deeply associated with freedom and it's difficult to go back to not having a car if you have grown up with it all your life (especially when you have children). You can never achieve the density and proper city layout when you need multi lane roads and parking for every building. There is also the fact that city building codes in the US are just outright hostile to good architecture and good urbanism. I am hoping for someone to start building charter cities where some of the principles of new-urbanism can be explored.

[@fainatselnik267]

Perfectly structured and beautifully illustrated presentation. Thank you for uniquely balanced point of view.

[@ezmadarlington942]

If your cattle and want to be fenced in and controlled

[@Secretlyalittleworm]

brilliant lecture

[@brunodesrosiers9603]

Whoahhh! Lapsus of the Year: The Paris Opera is a Charles Garnier building; not a Tony Garnier one. This is similar to mixing Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky.

[@PilgrimofMatter]

I really enjoyed this. My needs are not to design cities for the real world, but for my imaginary world of Asdar. I design 'old' cities, fictional cities that have been lived in for thousands of years. For this reason, they cannot be perfect, but have little islands of perfection in them.

[@ezmadarlington942]

You all like how it’s fenced in? This is about control folks!!!

[@verticalmatt]

10/10

[@lowe_sa2976]

interesting!

[@kylejmarsh3988]

lol 'a junkyard for leftover androids from outer space'

[@ingilizanahtar644]

❤

[@lowe_sa2976]

53:26 - and this is exact problem we have nowadays. people became too dumb!

[@craignunnallypurcell]

Landbays fed by arterial roads with buffer strips don’t count ?

[@Eric-bf7iy]

Vive la France! If only king Louis XV managed to win the seven year's war, if only French world dominance arose out of the classicist 17th century, I am ready to wager that all would be much better. #Paris is the new Jerusalem!

[@ezmadarlington942]

Maybe people don’t want to shop there! People are NOT cattle!!! How about NO!

[@ppuzzello64]

With all due respect Mr. Dennis, it's not fair to show an overview of "randomly" selected contemporary works of architecture and state simply that they are examples of narcissism and do not contribute to successful urbanism. Many examples of classical architecture are a result of self-indulgance on the part of monarchs and business interests too. Contemporary architecture is not necessarily the problem with bad urban space and I feel your presentation, although thoughtful, expresses too much of a stylistic bias.

[@verticalmatt]

not at all, he was making a technical point: see the part about Mauperty. Modern buildings can make great icons, but have not yet proven to be able to make good background buildings, which is the flesh of a city.

[@brunodesrosiers9603]

The first part of what you are saying is a good and fair point. However, it is when modern architecture loses its sense of scale that it loses its ability to contribute to the urban fabric. The ‘narcissistic’ criterion doesn’t get very far, you are right about that.