Analysing the trajectory from the industrial metropolis to the garden cities: the utopian ideals transformed into dormitory cities

This paper analyzes the urban transformations that occurred due to the degrading quality of life offered by cities in the period of Industrial Revolution. People’s dissatisfaction with poor hygiene and air pollution led many theorists, planners and researchers to develop utopian principles that unde...

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Auteur principal:	Portella, Adriana Araujo
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Publié:	Unisinos 2015
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spelling	oai:ojs.www.unisinos.br:article-74502021-08-30T19:09:21Z Analysing the trajectory from the industrial metropolis to the garden cities: the utopian ideals transformed into dormitory cities Analisando a trajetória das metrópoles industriais às cidades-jardins: os ideais utópicos transformados em cidades-dormitórios Portella, Adriana Araujo This paper analyzes the urban transformations that occurred due to the degrading quality of life offered by cities in the period of Industrial Revolution. People’s dissatisfaction with poor hygiene and air pollution led many theorists, planners and researchers to develop utopian principles that underlie the subsequent emergence of garden cities. These principles linking the preservation of natural areas with the growth of cities sought to increase the quality of life not only of wealthier classes, but also of proletariat, so marginalized in the industrial era. However, many of these utopian ideals have never left the design stage, since a large part of urban agglomerations organized on the basis of these principles has not grown as planned due to issues of competitiveness and civility among dwellers. Thus, within this context the North American suburbs emerged, which marked the birth of the dormitory cities characterizing today the dependence on automobiles and often a low quality of life of many commuters who depend on a public transportation infrastructure that is completely out of synch with user demands. Therefore, this study draws a parallel with the problems experienced today by many contemporary cities in order to stimulate discussions about the origins of the contemporary phenomena of urban growth that plague our cities, as well as the search for solutions that often refer to the utopian ideals advocated since the 14th century.Keywords: utopia, garden city, dormitory city. O presente artigo percorre as transformações urbanas que ocorreram em função da degradante qualidade de vida oferecida pelas cidades da época da Revolução Industrial. A insatisfação com as péssimas condições de higiene e poluição atmosférica fizeram com que vários teóricos, urbanistas e pesquisadores desenvolvessem princípios utópicos que fundamentaram mais adiante o surgimento das cidades-jardins. Tais princípios que ligavam a preservação das áreas naturais com o crescimento das cidades buscavam o aumento da qualidade de vida das pessoas, não somente das classes mais abastadas, mas também do proletariado tão marginalizado na era industrial. Entretanto, muitos desses ideais utópicos nunca saíram da etapa de projeto, já que grande parte das aglomerações urbanas organizadas em prol de tais princípios acabou por não se manter como o planejado devido a questões de competitividade e civilidade entre os habitantes. Assim, dentro desse contexto, surgem os subúrbios norte americanos que marcaram o nascimento das cidades-dormitórios, que hoje caracterizam a dependência em relação ao automóvel e muitas vezes a baixa qualidade de vida de muitos trabalhadores que dependem de uma infraestrutura de transporte público completamente defasada em relação à demanda de usuários. Traça-se, portanto, um paralelo aos problemas hoje vivenciados por muitas cidades a fim de estimular discussões acerca das origens dos fenômenos contemporâneos de crescimento urbano que assolam a urbes, bem como a busca por soluções que muitas vezes remetem aos ideais utópicos já defendidos desde o século XIV.Palavras-chave: utopia, cidade-jardim, cidade-dormitório. Unisinos 2015-01-29 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/arquitetura/article/view/arq.2014.102.01 10.4013/arq.2014.102.01 Arquitetura Revista; v. 10 n. 2 (2014): Jul-Dez; 46-58 1808-5741 por https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/arquitetura/article/view/arq.2014.102.01/4483
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title	Analysing the trajectory from the industrial metropolis to the garden cities: the utopian ideals transformed into dormitory cities
title_short	Analysing the trajectory from the industrial metropolis to the garden cities: the utopian ideals transformed into dormitory cities
title_full	Analysing the trajectory from the industrial metropolis to the garden cities: the utopian ideals transformed into dormitory cities
title_fullStr	Analysing the trajectory from the industrial metropolis to the garden cities: the utopian ideals transformed into dormitory cities
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description	This paper analyzes the urban transformations that occurred due to the degrading quality of life offered by cities in the period of Industrial Revolution. People’s dissatisfaction with poor hygiene and air pollution led many theorists, planners and researchers to develop utopian principles that underlie the subsequent emergence of garden cities. These principles linking the preservation of natural areas with the growth of cities sought to increase the quality of life not only of wealthier classes, but also of proletariat, so marginalized in the industrial era. However, many of these utopian ideals have never left the design stage, since a large part of urban agglomerations organized on the basis of these principles has not grown as planned due to issues of competitiveness and civility among dwellers. Thus, within this context the North American suburbs emerged, which marked the birth of the dormitory cities characterizing today the dependence on automobiles and often a low quality of life of many commuters who depend on a public transportation infrastructure that is completely out of synch with user demands. Therefore, this study draws a parallel with the problems experienced today by many contemporary cities in order to stimulate discussions about the origins of the contemporary phenomena of urban growth that plague our cities, as well as the search for solutions that often refer to the utopian ideals advocated since the 14th century.Keywords: utopia, garden city, dormitory city.
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