Abstract
In this first part of the literature review the section “Urban Machine”, forms a wider review of relevant literature relating to urban systems. It investigates the impact of modernist ideas on city planning and the perception of function as defining character. Examples are drawn from a range of sources to create a picture of how today’s city came to be understood as a machine. The machine here largely stands for an abstract model of repetition in the sense of clockwork. The machine is examined as part of planning, under the aspect of the function or usage, but also in terms of experience and models of power.
Further on in section “Time Space”, covers conceptions of time and space as a result of the social configuration of the city, as well as critically reviewing the founding concepts of time-geography. The first part discusses the different units of the calendar type time organisation as modelled on natural repetitive phenomena. This establishes those rhythms in a larger context, but ultimately in relation to the city as the place. Together with time, the concept of place and space also have to be integrated in a holistic view. The second part discusses approaches in time-geography to deal with the time phenomena in general. A special emphasis will be placed on the discussion of the time-geography time-space model and the related visualisation.
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Notes
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The Manifesto can be accessed online at http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/architecture.html
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London was covered under snow resulting from a snowstorm in early February 2009. It was featured in two blog posts on urbanTick http://urbantick.blogspot.com/2009/02/london-beats-differently-cycles.html and http://urbantick.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-disruption-reminds-us-of-routine-we.html
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The video clip can be accessed on vimeo at: http://vimeo.com/6588461
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Image is taken from Wikipedia, available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ciudad_lineal_ de_Arturo_Soria.jpg
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Neuhaus, F. (2015). Urban Machine and Time-Space. In: Emergent Spatio-temporal Dimensions of the City. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09849-4_2
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