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TABLE 4

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Urban design: requiem for an era – review and critique of the last 50 years

Alexander R Cuthbert

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Table 4. Properties of industrial and cultural forms and practices

  Industrialism Post industrialism Modernism Post modernism
QualitiesRegulationDeregulationOrderAnarchy
 RigidityFlexibilityControlChance
 FusionDiffusionDirectionIndeterminacy
 StandardizationDiversificationNeedDesire
 Material baseInformation baseProductProcess
 HierarchiesGrids and networksHistoryDestiny
 LegitimationDiscretionFunctionSignification
     
PropertiesState powerCorporate powerConstructionDeconstruction
 Class politicsNew class politicsSocietyEthnicity
 Mass productionIn time productionCommunityLocality
 Strategic planningContextual planningMonoculturismPluralism
 DevelopmentAdaptationClass cultureCommodity culture
 NationalismEthnic fissionPermanenceTransience
 Econ. of scopeEcon. of scaleSimilarityDiversity
 Welfare statismIndividual accountability  
 SpecializationSynergy in labour  
 UnionizationIndividual bargain  
     
PhilosophicalScientific rationalityNeo-DarwinismStructuralismPost structuralism
     
AttributesKeynesianismFunctionalismRealismHyper reality
 TaylorismFlexible specialismsRomanticismMysticism
 FordismDiversificationFormalismImagery
   NarrativeDiscursive
   ContiguityDifference
     
Spatial effects and implicationsMassificationDemassificationUrban functionsUrban landscape
 ConcentrationDiffusionState symbolsCorporate symbols
 CentralizationDispersalArch 'styles'Arch rhetoric
 Community baseLocality basedParadigmaticEclectic
 ZoningComplex integrationSyntacticMetaphoric
 Suburban focusUrban focusDesignCodification
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