Understanding urban landscapes

Running Head : Understanding Urban Landscapes

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The emergence of modern urban planning is as a result of efforts that are directed at addressing and solving the social problems that result due to the increased rural to urban migration . The number of individuals moving into urban areas in search for better work opportunities keeps increasing rapidly by the day . It has therefore become crucial for changes to be made and implemented in the way buildings are designed and planned so as to deal with this

situation . The postmodern turn in architecture and planning is however not equipped well enough to cope with these social issues as it only focuses on particular needs , fancies and wants . Modernists ' idea of urban planning and development focuses on large-scale , technologically rational and metropolitan-wide urban plans that are efficient that are characterized by no-frills architecture (Harvey , 1989 . Post modernism architecture instead displays a conception of urban planning as a mixture of past forms of design superimposed upon each and current uses most of which are ephemeral . The fact that metropolis can only be commanded in bits has made urban design (postmodern turn in architecture ) to be only sensitive to local histories , particular social needs and wants and vernacular traditions hence generating architectural forms that are specialized and highly customized that range from may range from intimate and spaces that are personalized through monuments that are traditional to spectacle gaiety flourishing to give appealing and remarkable architectural styles

Post modern turn in architecture...