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Typical functions of urban spaces
The activities of a town take plance in public and private spheres. The behavioral
patterns of people are similar in both. So, the result is that the way in which public
space has been organized has in all periods exercised a powerful influence of the designof private houses.
We might almost infer the existence of a kind of social ritual, which produces a perfect
match between individual and collective. What concerns us above all here are those
activities which take place in the town in the open air: i.e. actions which a person
performs outside the familiar territory of his own home and for which he utilises public
space, as for example travelling to work, shopping, selling goods, recreation, leisure
activities, sporting events, deliveries etc. Although the asphalt carpet which serves as a
channel for the movement of cars is still called a street, it retais no connections with
the original significance of the term. Certainly the motorized transportation of people
and goods is one of the primary functions of the town, but it requires no scenery in the
space around it. It is different in the case of the movement of pedestrians or public
transport vehicles which move at a moderate speed, like carriages. Today we have
boulevard situations which apparently draw their life from the dfile of flashy cars and
pavement cafes are visited despite the fact that the air is polluted by exhaust fumes.
Looking at planning schemes of the turn of the century one can appreciate that in
cosmopolitan cities such as Paris, Rome or Berlin, the air was polluted in a different
way: by horse manure, stinking sewage and uncollected refuse. A problem of urban
hygiene, as old as the town itself, with the only difference that people can be poisoned
by carbon monoxide but scarcely by horse manure.
On medical grounds we can no longer
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indulge in this kind of boulevard romanticism. While the automobile in its present form
continues to occupy streets, it excludes all other users.
Let us give a brief outline here of the characteristic functions of the space defined by the
square and the street:
THE SQUARE
This spation model is admirably suited to residential use. In the private sphere it
corresponds to the inner courtyard of atrium. The courtyard house is the oldest type of
town house. In spite of its undisputed advantages, the courtyard house has now become
discredited. It is all too easily subject to ideological misinterpretation, and people are
afraid that this design may imply enforced conformity to a communal lifestyle or a
particular philosophy.
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A certain unease about ones neighbours has undoubtedly led to the suppression of this
building type. Yet in the same way as communal living has gained in popularity for a
minority of young people with the disappearance of the extended family, the concept of
neighbourhood and its accompanying building types will most certainly be readopted in
the near future.