Date of Graduation

5-2017

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Architecture

Degree Level

Undergraduate

Department

Architecture

Advisor/Mentor

Newman, Winifred E.

Committee Member

Terry, Laura

Second Committee Member

DeWitt, Dylan

Third Committee Member

Grewe, Zachary

Fourth Committee Member

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Abstract

Starting after the industrial revolution, the city has increasingly represented the spatial components of capitalism and has increasingly been conceived of as a built form of capital. To understand the lineage of ideas that has led to the current understanding of the city, this study creates a genealogy of theories that cites six significant projects starting with the Garden City in 1898 and concluding with the Yokohama International Passenger Terminal in 2002. The spatial components of capitalism; production, consumption, and housing are used as an index to better understand the socioeconomic influence of capitalism on the city as well as the spatial implications. Each of the six projects take a theoretical position relative to capitalism and a position on the ideological role of the planner. Three projects; the Decentralized City, No-Stop City, and Parc de La Villette, are discussed in greater depth while the other three are mentioned in support of the idea of lineage.

Keywords

capitalism; production; consumption; housing

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