This presentation is about the first-generation urban designer Leon Krier.pptx

Leon Krier

1. Leon Krier Luxembourg, 1946

2. New Urbanism is not utopian and does not impose social master plans. It allows the infinite variety of human talent and ambition to build harmonious and pleasing environments

3. Industrial anti-city

4. Industrial planning and functional zoning Integrated multifunctional rural and urban complexes Mono-functional suburban zones Cities Villages Districts Quarters Parishes Residential neighborhoods University campuses Shopping centers Industrial parks Against the organic integration of urban functions, industrial zoning posits their mechanical segregation

5. Each place that zoning makes is no place in particular, under zoning no building can respond to its setting with specificity

6. Zoning and Politics Spatial separation of functions destroying the complex social and physical fabric of pre-industrial urban communities, of urban democracy and culture. abstraction of city and countryside abstraction of communities is by nature amoral, asocial and anti-ecological Industrial rationality Social irrationality

7. Instead of more regulations, we need talented individuals to take over with flair and insight—as they have so often in the past– when not overruled by theoreticians, ideologues or morons. Mistakes are risked, but with zoning they are guaranteed. The zoning itself is the mistake; every project designed under its leaden rule is doomed

8. Zoning, social mobility and energy consumption waste both time and energy in daily mobilization of industrial society one function in one space at one time based on infinite territorial sprawl has resulted in maximum energy consumption. Slavery of mobility integrating the main urban functions into urban quarters (districts) of limited territorial size.

9. Against the global destruction of city and countryside city and countryside are antithetical notions reconstruction of the territory must be defined in a strict physical and legal separation Math-based zoning principles generate the machine order

10. public and domestic spaces monuments and urban fabric architecture and building squares and streets City, architecture, building great functional complexity readable, clear, permanently satisfying articulation Simplicity and legibility must be the goal of the very complexity of the urban plan and skyline silhouette. f igure-ground theory

11. In a memorable place every component responds specifically to the particulars of its locale. Overall harmony is achieved organically by a dialogue of characters that agree to produce coherence at every step

12. The city of Poundbury , Britain : A place designed without reference to pre-existent zoning formulas

13. It has attracted enthusiastic residents, as well as industries and shops; to replace the “downtown plus suburbs” system with that of the polycentric settlement.

14. All buildings have a positive or negative effect on the quality of the public realm A possible alternative outcome for Poundbury , with the numbers in charge