Euro New Urbanism

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In the second half of the XXth century another major expansion followed the Post-War Reconstruction efforts, and modernization strategies of transportation and urban infrastructures. </FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="08790e10.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Urban Renewal Proposal for a Small Town In Luxembourg (1960)</div> <bR> <div> I<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >n the majority of European countries, both in the democratic Western and in the Eastern communist ones, within different ideologies, similar tendencies of urban dissolution and of industrial modernism, disfigured and often dismantled the integrity of historic cities. Both zoning practices, mass-produced housing structures, and the growing dominance of the automobile,  led to a more and more dishumanized and uncomfortable urban reality.</FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0e55e210.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="289" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Dense Suburban Settlements in Eastern Europe</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0e65e1f0.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="287" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Traditional Urbanism in Eastern Europe </div> <bR> <div> S<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >uburban developments (which always existed as an organic reality in European city-building), started to become an overwhelming planning ideal. Suburban sprawl, and mono-functional planning have become codified and institutionalized in most of European planning legislations.The "anti-urban" remains today an uneasy paradigm considered as a fatality of modern urban culture. </FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="09c90190.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="281" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Postcard View of Historic City of Viseu</div> <bR> <div> I<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >n the wake of a deterministic and modernist historiography, it was generally  considered that the Historic City could not serve anymore as an operational model. The historic city is eventually preserved as an icon of past cultural excellence and identity, as a decorative heritage disconnected from the patterns of the contemporary visions and practicable objectives. </FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="099902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> New Developments around Viseu, Portugal</div> <div> (Photo by Lucien Steil)</div> <bR> <div> T<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >he ideal of the European City has however never vanished from the reality of European city-building, and has remained a desirable model for a majority of citizens. There have been vague attempts to re-formulate concepts of the Traditional European city in Post-War reconstructions, the English New Towns, the French "Villes Nouvelles", but most of them failed by their refusal to actualize, update and apply comprehensively the essential and time-tested principles of Traditional City-Building.</FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0ad90040.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="260" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Exemplary Post-War Reconstruction of Historic Warsaw</div> <div> (Photo by Stephan Edelbroich)</div> <bR> <div> A<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" > majority of new urban and suburban constructions are realized in a mediocre and hybrid "traditionalism", organized in the prevailing suburban patterns of monofunctional zoning. In many European cities, the original and intact historic centres are surrounded by a growing ring of loose suburban patchwork, suffocating both the city and landscape. The imagery and structure of this "con-urbanization"  look sometimes very strikingly similar to typical US sprawl areas! This "Americanization" of the European cities is an alarming and accelerating phenomena! </FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0f690060.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="262" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Urban Sprawl South of Lake Allatoona, Georgia</div> <bR> <div> T<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >he sprawl problematics is however widely acknowledged and addressed by a diversity of planning measures, and occasional "model projects". These successful "model projects" or "projets-pilotes" however  mostly  remain relatively unknown, and consequently affect only the particular local planning contexts, and sometimes just remain isolated, and exceptional experiments...For example, a project like Seaside would have remained  a purely local chronicle in Europe, wheras in the US it has become a national paradigm of  an Urban Renaissance, and a remarkable and emblematic monument of the history of New Urbanism!</FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0b0860d0.jpg" border=0 width="390" height="269" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Quarter of Tacheles, Berlin</div> <div> by Duany & Plater-Zyberk and Company</div> <bR> <div> T<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >hough there is no unified urbanism policy in Europe, there seem to be however  cultural receptiveness and technocratic competence to instrumentalize NU methodologies at the various scales of the European urban reality. What seem to be lacking dramatically are the "plug-ins" and connectors, and generally, a politically instrumentalized urbanist "techné", allowing to transcend the national particularities, and political and cultural complexities of the European kaleidoscope. What is needed is not so much a cultural idealization of the Historic European City, but a technique and a technocratic instrumentation  to implement the construction of new urban developments of whatever scale, according to the  rules and principles which brought about the best Europeans cities. </FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="10209ee0.jpg" border=0 width="521" height="238" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> New Seaside Village, Hardelot, France (2000)</div> <div> by Léon Krier and Arcas Group </div> <bR> <div> P<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >aradoxically the European Community, -- formed by the union of exemplary modern democracies --, has resulted in a highly centralized and complex bureaucracy with a growing influence on national and local policies: very much in the tradition of the great central and absolutist powers and cultures from Europe's history. It seems that this polarity between the European bureaucracy and the national governments offers parallel opportunities of introducing New Urbanism, both through the central European Institutions and through the decentralized local administrations. For this to succeed it is however necessary to propose in a unified and complex strategy, -- at a European level, -- and  in the most systematic, scientific and rational way --, the methodologies of a New European Urbanism.  </FONT></div> <div>     </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0b25e3d0.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="317" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> New European Quarters in Luxembourg (1978)</div> <div> by Léon Krier</div> <bR> <div> T<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >he articulate criticism of sprawl, "desurbanization" and "rurbanization", etc., by European sociologists, psychologists, economists, politicians, as well as by a growing number of architects and urbanists started as early as the 60s, and has yet achieved no reversal of the diffuse "Americanization" of European cities; it has however created a substantial number of research work and publications, of "Counter Projects", of a variety of built projects of variable size, and of a number of fragmented efforts of the" Moral and Material Reconstruction" of the Traditional European city.</FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0b45e420.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="322" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> New Urban development in Le Plessis-Robinson, Paris</div> <div> by Nada and Marc Breitman</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#CC0033" FACE="Times New Roman" >O</FONT>rganizations and associations like, the  <I>"Archives d'Architecture Moderne"</I> in Brussels (Maurice Culot), the <I>ARAU</I> in Bruxelles (Maurice Culot and Jean François Lejeune), the <I>"Fondation Pour L'Architecture"</I>  in Bruxelles (Maurice Culot, Philippe Rotthier, Caroline Mierop), the <I>"European Award for The Reconstruction of</I> <I>the City"</I> (Philippe Rotthier), the "<I> Prince of Wales's Urban Design Task Force</I>" (Brian Hanson), <I>"A Vision of</I> <I>Europe" </I>in Bologna (Ivo and Gabriele Tagliaventi), and more recently <I>"INTBAU"</I>, the <I>University of Ferrara</I> (Gabriele Tagliaventi), and the <I>New School of Viseu </I>(José Cornélio da Silva), etc. have set up a notable tradition of "Resistance", and of productive New Urbanist visions and strategies.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0b55efc0.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Reconstruction of Potsdam Stadtschloss and Alter Markt (1996)</div> <div> by The Prince of Wales's Urban Design Task Force</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#CC0033" FACE="Times New Roman" >T</FONT>he outstanding, articulate and consistent support of a popular New Urbanism and architecture by<I> </I><I>HRH The</I> <I>Prince of Wales</I><I> </I>has to be particularly mentioned as a continuous rallying and catalyzing effort. Besides his numerous public statements and publications regarding a New Urbanism and a New Popular Architecture, <I>HRH</I> <I>The Prince of Wales</I> has consolidated his aspirations in the "<I>Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture</I>", now "<I>The Princes Foundation</I>", as well as in numerous related activities and initiatives.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0b690de0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="222" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Reconstruction of Potsdam-Süd</div> <div> (Watercolor Rendering by Rick Shaupp)</div> <bR> <div> by The Prince of Wales's Urban Design Task Force</div> <bR> <div> T<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >hey often however failed to assure an efficient, and durable impact on the complicated realities of various national, and local contexts of urbanistic production in Europe. </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#CC0033" FACE="Times New Roman" >D</FONT>espite an impressive number of New Traditional architects, Classical architects and New Urbanists in Europe, it has not been possible yet to generate an organized and coordinated movement, and a consistent and unified action strategy capable to operate successfully at the critical levels of the urbanistic planning mechanisms in Europe! The powerful lessons of the American New Urbanists and the growing impact of their built achievements, -- though operated in very different political and technical conditions --, should definitely inform and inspire the strategical concertation of New Urbanists in Europe. The coming <I>EuroCouncil</I> in Bruxelles and Bruges can be a privileged opportunity, -- of crucial tactical importance -- , for the formation of a solid New Urbanist movement in Europe.   </div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="09490c20.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="194" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Model of New Town in Germany</div> <div> by Krier & Kohl, Berlin</div> <bR> <bR> <div>  Recent Examples of European New Urbanism</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0935efb0.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="251" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Master Plan of Nuova Citta, Alessandria, Italy</div> <div> by Léon Krier and Gabriele Tagliaventi</div> <bR> <bR> <div> "Citta Nuova" in Alessandria, Italy</div> <bR> <div> by Léon Krier and Gabriele Tagliaventi</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="08890050.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="261" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Perspective of New Piazza in Alessandria</div> <div> by Léon Krier</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="08b5ef20.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="242" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> New Piazza in Alessandria as Built</div> <div> by Léon Krier and Gabriele Tagliaventi</div> <bR> <div> Hardelot, France</div> <bR> <div> by Léon Krier & Arcas Group</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="10609e80.jpg" border=0 width="521" height="232" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Master Plan of Hardelot, France</div> <div> by Léon Krier & Arcas Group</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="109902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Street in Hardelot, France</div> <div> by Léon Krier & Arcas Group</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="10890bd0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="189" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> New Seatown, Hardelot, France</div> <div> by Léon Krier & Arcas Group</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Poundbury, England</div> <bR> <div> by Léon Krier</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0c4902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Poundbury, Dorchester</div> <div> by Léon Krier</div> <bR> <div> (Photo by Chris Pizzi)</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0c6902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Poundbury, Dorchester</div> <div> by Léon Krier</div> <bR> <div> (Photo by Chris Pizzi)</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0c8902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Poundbury, Dorchester</div> <div> by Léon Krier</div> <bR> <div> (Photo by Chris Pizzi)</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Rue de Laeken, Brussels</div> <bR> <div> by  European Architects</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0ec90060.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="262" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Rue de Laeken, Brussels</div> <div> Courtyard Facade</div> <bR> <div> <I>"The controversy here is not of a stylistic order, but regards the "project" in the context of its ecological equilibrium. It addresses a global re-assessment of a consciousness regarding the controled expansion of our cities, as well as the re-definition of the scale and the dimension of the urban block; - all of this in a perspective of encouraging the typological  comprehension of a project establishing hierarchies between public buildings and domestic ones, and particularly caring for  the public spaces of our cities."</I></div> <bR> <div> Demetri Porphyrios</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0e990290.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="297" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Rue de Laeken, Brussels</div> <div> by Gabriele Tagliaventi and Marco Gaiani</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0eb5e2f0.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="303" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Rue de Laeken,Brussels</div> <div> by Atelier 55</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Ouderkerk, Holland</div> <bR> <div> by Rob Krier</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="08990130.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="275" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Street in New Town of Ouderkerk, Holland</div> <div> by Rob Krier</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0ab90070.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Public Space with Canal in New Town of Ouderkerk, Holland</div> <div> by Rob Krier</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Kirchsteigsfeld, Potsdam</div> <bR> <div> by Rob Krier & Christoph Kohl</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="08d5ee80.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="232" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Roofs of New Town Kirchsteigsfeld, Potsdam</div> <div> by Rob Krier and Christoph Kohl</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="08cdb0e0.jpg" border=0 width="475" height="270" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Built Center of Kirchsteigfeld and Extension Model</div> <div> by Rob Krier and Christoph Kohl</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="08e5edb0.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="219" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Square Model in Kirchsteigfeld</div> <div> by Rob Krier and Christoph Kohl</div> <bR> <bR> <div> New Town of Pitiousa, Greece</div> <bR> <div> by Demetri Porphyrios</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="09890f10.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="241" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> New Town of Pitiousa, Spetses, Greece</div> <div> by Demetri Porphyrios and Associates</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="09190170.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="279" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> New Town of Pitiousa, Spetses, Greece</div> <div> by Demetri Porphyrios and Associates</div> <bR> <div> Cavo Salomonti, Crete</div> <bR> <div> by Demetri Porphyrios</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0d127a90.jpg" border=0 width="295" height="425" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Cavo Salomonti Plan, Crete</div> <div> by Demetri Porphyrios and Associates</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0d2c2160.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="278" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Elevation of Cavo Salomonti, Crete</div> <div> by Demetri Porphyrios and Associates</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id21_m.htm" TITLE="Euro New Urbanism"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>