Ultimately, by focusing on the design and inhabitation of the cities’ public spaces and housing, the book locates the essence of the modern city in its ordinary fabric and everyday life—which shifts our understanding of architecture and planning, enabling us to see it as a collective work that is necessarily the result of negotiation among a variety of actors. Chandigarh Casablanca is published to coincide with an exhibition at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal.
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Architecture: European Architecture
Table of Contents
Mirko Zardini
Cities After Planning
Yto Barrada
Casablanca, August 2013
Takashi Homma
Chandigarh, March 2013
Introduction
Geopolitical Context
Actors
Jawaharlal Nehru
Ernest Weissmann
Douglas Ensminger
The End of the European Colonial Empires
Between East and West, a New Path for Development
A New Focus for the United Nations: The Technical Assistance Administration
The Political Battleground of Development Aid Missions
The Global Involvement of Non-Governmental Organizations: The Ford Foundation’s Footprint
Two Urban Experiments
Actors
Le Corbusier
Michel Écochard
Albert Mayer
Vladimir Bodiansky
Pierre Jeanneret
Architects’ Office
Mohinder Singh Randhawa
Maciej (Matthew) Nowicki
Exploring the Site: Chandigarh Before Chandigarh
Exploring Casablanca
The GAMMA Grid for Casablanca
The CIAM Grid for Chandigarh
Planning Chandigarh
Planning the Expansion of Casablanca
Governance in Casablanca
Governance in Chandigarh
Designing Chandigarh’s Civic Fabric
Residential Sectors
Schools
University Campus
Medical Institute
Hydroelectric Plant
Workers’ Township
The Capitol Complex
Designing the Civic Fabric of the New Casablanca
Infrastructure
Cité Horizontale
Neighbourhood Centres
Cité Verticale
Markets
Schools
Transnational Planning
Actors
Mary Jaqueline Tyrwhitt
Charles Abrams
Edwin Maxwell Fry
Jane B. Drew
Otto H. Koenigsberger
Jacob Leslie Crane
Constantinos A. Doxiadis
The Seminal Role of Conferences in Transnational Planning
Shared Tools: Missions and Reports
How Modernism Embraced New Climatic Conditions: Tropical Architecture
The Rise of a New Figure: The International Development Expert
In Conclusion
Further Reading
Index
Copyrights and Image Credits
Acknowledgements
Biographies