Whose culture has been celebrated and whose excluded in the design of our contemporary environments?

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Whose culture has been celebrated and whose excluded in the design of our contemporary environments?

In Class 8, we looked at the birth of contemporary town planning and how the trend of designing Modernist Utopias may have excluded Indigenous culture from its own environments around the world. From replications of the post Renaissance European town plan in colonized cities around the world, to Haussmann’s 19th C Paris, to the exclusion of BIPOC in 20th C US urban planning, to the work of Corbusier, FLW and Kahn around the world—top down urban planning does always come with an undertone of violence. Yet, in a post colonial world, questions probing indigenous heritage, hybrid indigenous-colonial heritage, so also Modernist heritage in the architecture and environmental design of our contemporary environments can only have complicated, nuanced answers. You have seen the discussion in ‘Mandatory Discussion 2’ Expand upon this in 750-1000 words , citing relevant sources to answer: Whose culture has been celebrated and whose excluded in the design of our contemporary environments? :Looking at cultural exclusion in (x city**) 1.Use Class 8 slides and the introductory text to this assignment as a take off point (3 points) 2.**Use Toronto or any other contemporary city you are familiar with as a base for your argument. You may also compare and contrast two cities. (3 points) 3. Quote from at least two of the sources below to ameliorate your argument. (4 points) 4. Cohesive essay structure with nuanced arguments, citing relevant sources to ground each (4 points) 5. Legible grammar and spellings (3 points) 6. All formatting and citations in MLA styleLinks to an external site. (3 points) TOTAL 20 POINTS Urban Utopias in the 20th CLinks to an external site.–Book Review of Robert Fishman’s 1977 book Glass buildings not suited for hot climateLinks to an external site. Why we must Decolonize to DecarbonizeLinks to an external site. Why modernism is the worst thing that happened to architectureLinks to an external site. Generic City, Rem KoolhaasLinks to an external site. Decolonizing Design – Dori TunstallLinks to an external site. Chromophobia – David Batchelor.

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