TABLE 4
FROM:
Urban design: requiem for an era – review and critique of the last 50 years
Alexander R Cuthbert
BACK TO ARTICLETable 4. Properties of industrial and cultural forms and practices
| Industrialism | Post industrialism | Modernism | Post modernism | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualities | Regulation | Deregulation | Order | Anarchy |
| Rigidity | Flexibility | Control | Chance | |
| Fusion | Diffusion | Direction | Indeterminacy | |
| Standardization | Diversification | Need | Desire | |
| Material base | Information base | Product | Process | |
| Hierarchies | Grids and networks | History | Destiny | |
| Legitimation | Discretion | Function | Signification | |
| Properties | State power | Corporate power | Construction | Deconstruction |
| Class politics | New class politics | Society | Ethnicity | |
| Mass production | In time production | Community | Locality | |
| Strategic planning | Contextual planning | Monoculturism | Pluralism | |
| Development | Adaptation | Class culture | Commodity culture | |
| Nationalism | Ethnic fission | Permanence | Transience | |
| Econ. of scope | Econ. of scale | Similarity | Diversity | |
| Welfare statism | Individual accountability | |||
| Specialization | Synergy in labour | |||
| Unionization | Individual bargain | |||
| Philosophical | Scientific rationality | Neo-Darwinism | Structuralism | Post structuralism |
| Attributes | Keynesianism | Functionalism | Realism | Hyper reality |
| Taylorism | Flexible specialisms | Romanticism | Mysticism | |
| Fordism | Diversification | Formalism | Imagery | |
| Narrative | Discursive | |||
| Contiguity | Difference | |||
| Spatial effects and implications | Massification | Demassification | Urban functions | Urban landscape |
| Concentration | Diffusion | State symbols | Corporate symbols | |
| Centralization | Dispersal | Arch 'styles' | Arch rhetoric | |
| Community base | Locality based | Paradigmatic | Eclectic | |
| Zoning | Complex integration | Syntactic | Metaphoric | |
| Suburban focus | Urban focus | Design | Codification |
