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| Fonte: à beira do urbanismo set 2014 |
quarta-feira, 17 de julho de 2019
Financeland
The
Guardian 08-07-2019,
por Oliver Wainwright
'The next era of human progress': what lies behind the
global new cities epidemic?
(..) The escapist urge to build cities from scratch is
nothing new. At the turn of the 19th century, the Garden City Movement saw
a generation of bucolic communities planned in reaction to the grime and
overcrowding of rapidly industrialising cities, driven by a powerful campaign
for social reform. Half a century later, the New Town movement developed
these ideas, promising a brave new world of modern, self-sufficient
municipalities rising from the ruins of the second world war, and focused on
building an inclusive, democratic society. Now, in the first decades of a new millennium, a surge in
global population growth and a sense of impending environmental armageddon have
spurred an epidemic of planned cities of a very different kind. This time they
are being conceived by private multinational corporations as gilt-edged gated
communities and tax-exempt free-trade hubs, each branded as the ultimate
techno-eco-utopia. (..)
