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8 Berlin Chicago Canberra San Francisco Helsinki

9 Paris Soft Metropolis Design by Competition winners LIN Finn Geipel & Giulia Andi, Berlin

10 Beriin 1910 Competition entry

11 Paternoster Square.

14 The view of the world as a flat disc in - You better believe it - Otherwise you may get your fingers jammed in the heavenly gearbox of wheels that move the stars Or you may drop off the flat disc of the Earth Where to? Nobody knows? Hell?

15 Film, 1949 < Ayn Rand: Man s ego is the fountainhead of human progress. Novel,1943 Film, 1949 "My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?"

16 The Death of Modern Architecture 15 July 1972, 3:32 pm (Charles Jencks) Icon: the demolition of large-scale housing estate Pruitt Igoe

17 Icon: Robert Moses

18 Icons: Jane Jacobs vs. Robert Moses

19 Side walk ballet Hudson Street NY 1961 and 2008

individual vision and by the pressure of the individual will.

21 Henry James window metaphor from Preface to the 1908 New York Edition to The Portrait of a Lady. The house of fiction has in short (!!) not one window, but a million --a number of possible windows not to be reckoned, rather; every one of which has been pierced, or is still pierceable, in its vast front, by the need of the individual vision and by the pressure of the individual will. These apertures, of dissimilar shape and size, hang so, all together, over the human scene that we might have expected of them a greater sameness of report than we find. They are but windows at the best, mere holes in a dead wall, disconnected, perched aloft; they are not hinged doors opening straight upon life. But they have this mark of their own that at each of them stands a figure with a pair of eyes He and his neighbours are watching the same show, but one seeing more where the other sees less, one seeing black where the other sees white, one seeing big where the other sees small, one seeing coarse where the other sees fine. And so on,and so on; there is fortunately no saying on what, for the particular pair of eyes, the window may NOT open; " fortunately" by reason, precisely, of this incalculability of range. The spreading field, the human scene, is the "choice of subject"; the pierced aperture, either broad or balconied or slit-like and low-browed, is the "literary form"; but they are, singly or together, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher--without, in other words, the consciousness of the artist. Tell me what the artist is, and I will tell you of what he has BEEN conscious. Thereby I shall express to you at once his boundless freedom and his "moral" reference.

24 up to 1890, it was widely unknown How the Other Half Lives Persons who opened this window were Jacob Riis in New York

25 Charles Booth in London with his map of London Poverty 1889

26 Coketown And Charles Dickens

27 But what really made the change were the gruesome facts of life or rather death. More casualties through Cholera than at the Battle of Waterloo Chadwick: Sanitary Report (1842) General Board of Public Health, Public Health Act 1872, Medical Officers of Health

28 the solution: good government and...

29 good planners, good design

30 the end of a story: The death of Modern Architecture On 16. March 1972, 15:00 (as proclaimed by Charles Jencks)

31 ..so was it all a mistake? From Ebenezer Howard to Jane Jacobs was everything wrong?

32 Yes of course everything was wrong, said Margaret Thatcher looking out of her window Adam Smith was right What we need is a return to liberalism : Neo-Liberalism All the power to the market small government no dole for lazybums recipients of the dole should go to a boot camp

33 or did the problem lie in the form of top-down government?: decision resistance deciding Actor Public 24 Jan 2011, Lyon Urban Regeneration in Germany 33

37 Yes of course everything was wrong, said Margaret Thatcher looking out of her window Adam Smith was right

39 or did the problem lie in the form of top-down government?: decision resistance deciding Actor Public 24 Jan 2011, Lyon Urban Regeneration in Germany 39

40 From Modernism to Post-Modernism in Planning A problem diagnosis (1968) 4 arms: Architects, Speculators Senate (politicians) Housing Associations: Scandal of largest non-profit (?) Housing Association, Neue Heimat

URBAN STUDIES OF THE PERIPHERY: 9 years of urban studies in the Estonian Academy of Arts

Audience. In the foreground prof. Panu Lehtovuori. Photo: Kadri Vaher URBAN STUDIES OF THE PERIPHERY: 9 years of urban studies in the Estonian Academy of Arts From the 6 th to 9 th of March 2013 EKA G