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4 Imaginary and entertainment environments “Disneylands”, zoos and funfairs act as places of refuge from the dreariness of the urban surroundings. 5 Event and participation environments Pedestrian precincts, children’s villages, centres for performances and musical events, multipurpose halls and gymnasia all help with the problem of what to do with one’s space time. 6 Shaping space and green landscaping Takes care of visual hygiene, redistributes masses and articulates the space between buildings, hides and patches up unsightly views of buildings. 7 The cult of displaying objects and products An ever-growing environment of objects of interest has emerged. City centres are unbroken product display areas. The eye is no longer able to switch from the objects and display windows to see the buildings, the streets and the people themselves. They are seen as passive. 8 The city as a script The city consists of a whole series of urban situations nested one inside the other, which write the script – command environments, guided-movement environments, purchase-stimulation environments, environments that distribute enlightening and educational slogans. 9 The strategy of open form The city that has an open form consists of a freely adaptable network of areas, buildings and objects. Structures are not limited but grow as the situation permits. The environment is governed by the continuous, the relatively incomplete, that is, the direct opposite of the finality of the architecture of synthesis. The city is fragmented, formless, unrecognizable – incomprehensible? The absolute hierarchical stiffness of technical systems and the open anarchy of non-technical types of environment form at the same time an unsatisfactory team of workhorses. Too many components are standing in for each other. The feeling of uncertainty and insecurity can be warded off for the moment, but soon they return again in a new form, in a different context. In the final analysis, the strategy of supplementation is only a substitute. It cannot be used to condense reality so that people’s basic need – the need for a place to live – gets a response. The city of unrestricted growth cannot achieve this almost cosmic relationship with nature, which is characteristic of cities history. Urban man feels this lack of bonds as a general feeling of transience. He experiences the unreality stemming from the current quality of the city.
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