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The article examines the reorientations of the appreciation of ugliness within different national contexts in a comparative and relational frame, juxtaposing the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus. It also explores the ways in which the transformation of the urban fabric and the effect of suburbanization were perceived in the aforeme...
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The paper examines the reorientations of the appreciation of ugliness within different national contexts in a comparative or relational frame, juxtaposing the British, Italian, and Australian milieus, and to relate them to the ways in which the transformation of the urban fabric and the effect of suburbanization were perceived in the aforementioned...
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... Ludovico Quaroni's aforementioned keynote lecture and his critique of Le Corbusier and the functionalism of modernist architecture and urbanism constituted an early encounter of Scott Brown with an analysis of the risks that a rigid understanding of the concept of function in architecture and urban planning entails, on the one hand, and the drawbacks of separating the practice of architecture and the practice of urban planning, on the other hand. Quaroni, eleven years later, in La torre di Babele, 'Quaroni argues that "the modern city is really ugly" and that the neglected lesson of historic cities is the wellintegrated synthesis of function, technology and aesthetics' (Charitonidou 2022a;2022b;2020, 231;Quaroni 1967). Despite the commonalities between some aspects of Quaroni's critical view of modernist functionalism and Scott Brown's deferred judgment, Quaroni's analysis of 'the tension between the historic and the modern city', and his choice to relate 'the historic city's beauty to its "clear design . . . ...
... .] the modern city [to the fact that it is] [. . .] "chaotic"' (Charitonidou 2022a;2022b;2020, 231;Quaroni 1967;Chowkwanyun 2014) differs a lot from Scott Brown's posture, who seems to desire to understand the logic behind the complexity and patterns characterising the post-war urban and suburban fabric. ...
The article examines the impact of the study for Levittown of urban sociologist Herbert Gans on Denise Scott Brown’s thought. It scrutinizes Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour’s ‘Remedial Housing for Architects or Learning from Levittown’ conducted in collaboration with their students at Yale University in 1970. Taking as its starting point Scott Brown’s endeavour to redefine functionalism in ‘Architecture as Patterns and Systems: Learning from Planning’, and ‘The Redefinition of Functionalism’, which were included in Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time (2004), the article sheds light on the fact that the intention to shape a new way of conceiving functionalism was already present in Learning from Las Vegas, where Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour suggested an understanding of Las Vegas as pattern of activities. Particular emphasis is placed on Scott Brown’s understanding of ‘active socioplastics’, and on the impact of advocacy planning and urban sociology on her approach. At the core of the reflections developed in this article is the concept of ‘urban village’ that Gans uses in US in The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans (1972) to shed light on the socio-anthropological aspects of inhabiting urban fabric.
Objectives: This research aims to study the development of smart cities in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) area from the perspective of the industrial business sector and develop a structural equation model. Theoretical framework: The study is based on the 20-year National Strategy, which emphasizes smart city development as an approach to distribute economic, social, and technological prosperity, particularly in areas of economic importance to the country, such as the EEC. Methods: The research was conducted using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Quantitative data was collected from questionnaires administered to 500 executives in the target industrial businesses of the EEC, employing descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, and multivariate statistics. Results and Conclusion: The research findings reveal that the development priorities are ranked into four components: 1) Enterprise Management (= 4.34), 2) Community Operation (= 4.33), 3) Public Administration (= 4.32), and 4) City Regulation (= 4.26). The hypothesis testing results show that existing high-potential industrial businesses (First S-Curve) and future industrial businesses (New S-Curve) place significantly different importance on the development of smart cities in the EEC area at a statistical significance level of 0.05. The developed structural equation model meets the assessment criteria and is consistent with the empirical data. Implications of the research: The findings of this study can inform policymakers and stakeholders in the EEC area about the key components and priorities for smart city development from the perspective of the industrial business sector. The structural equation model can serve as a framework for guiding smart city development efforts in the region. Originality/value: This research contributes to the understanding of smart city development in the context of the EEC area in Thailand, focusing on the perspective of the industrial business sector. The developed structural equation model provides a novel approach to analyzing the relationships between various components of smart city development in the region.
