Public life and public housing Charles Moore's Church Street South
Church Street South, a public housing project in New Haven, is a case study in attempts to bring public life into architecturally defined places that would ameliorate the disorder of the privatized postwar world. Charles W. Moore and his partner, William Turnbull, designed a low-rise complex compose...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Architecture and the housing question / edited by Can Bilsel and Juliana Maxim |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Church Street South, a public housing project in New Haven, is a case study in attempts to bring public life into architecturally defined places that would ameliorate the disorder of the privatized postwar world. Charles W. Moore and his partner, William Turnbull, designed a low-rise complex composed of "defensible spaces" that were intended to engender a sense of community identity for residents, individuate the dwelling units, and prevent the crime and vandalism found in public housing towers. Located on a site close to the 1967 New Haven riots, Church Street South encapsulated then-current theories of how architecture could avoid the pitfalls of modernist planning while addressing the needs of residents. This chapter interrogates the type of "public life" that could be produced in a public housing project whose residents had little choice in where they lived. How could architects create "public life" for low-income residents of a neighborhood that had suffered from racial and economic marginalization, urban renewal, and dislocation? The case of Church Street South demonstrates the evolution of American public housing as well as its role in engaging social formations beyond the provision of decent shelter. |
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| Beschreibung: | Illustrationen, Plan |
| ISBN: | 978-0-815-39602-4 |