Social Order in Public Spaces: Buchanan and Monderman`s Approaches
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Word count 1472.
Compare and contrast Buchanan and Monderman`s approaches to the production of social order in public spaces?.
This essay will look at the ordering of motor vehicles and pedestrians ,in order to compare and contrast Colin Buchanan’s Traffic in towns 1963 government commissioned report, with Hans Monderman’s thesis 1982.It will also look briefly at further accounts of social order that of philosopher Micheal Foucault’s macro dimensions of social life and sociologists Erving Goffman’s focus on micro social phenomena (E.B.Silva,p309).
At a time when road building was at its highest and of great political importance(,early sixties). See table 1,page 328.E.B.Silva., showing that people were opting more for individual car use between 1949 and 2006, page 328,(E,B.Silva).Colin Buchanan approach to writing his report was one of scientific rationality, He wanted create a civilised environment,(p. 328E.BSilva) ,in which pedestrians and motor vehicles were segregated, the key principle was to isolate rooms(called enviromenta l units) for working , shopping and leisure, the corridors, where the traffic would move.p328,E.BSilva. pedestrians were marginalised whilst cars in particular were given the position of privilege ,in his report he viewed traffic as an agent shaping the way that space is designed ,how people live ,and how people react with their enviroment and each other(p.329).Owning a car was seen as a mark of success,even prime minister Margaret Thatcher said as much in 1986 (house of commons 2003)’A man who beyond the age of twenty six, finds himself on a bus can consider himself a failure’.(p338).Buchanan coined the phrase’ car owning democracy’ p338.E.B.Silva.Traffic was bounded by rules imposed by a ever expanding traffic calming measures traffic lights ,bollards, zebra crossing’s .Buchanans approach was one of civil and engineering,it was also one of a Modernist approach his prescription the development of
TMA04
Word count 1472.
Compare and contrast Buchanan and Monderman`s approaches to the production of social order in public spaces?.
This essay will look at the ordering of motor vehicles and pedestrians ,in order to compare and contrast Colin Buchanan’s Traffic in towns 1963 government commissioned report, with Hans Monderman’s thesis 1982.It will also look briefly at further accounts of social order that of philosopher Micheal Foucault’s macro dimensions of social life and sociologists Erving Goffman’s focus on micro social phenomena (E.B.Silva,p309).
At a time when road building was at its highest and of great political importance(,early sixties). See table 1,page 328.E.B.Silva., showing that people were opting more for individual car use between 1949 and 2006, page 328,(E,B.Silva).Colin Buchanan approach to writing his report was one of scientific rationality, He wanted create a civilised environment,(p. 328E.BSilva) ,in which pedestrians and motor vehicles were segregated, the key principle was to isolate rooms(called enviromenta l units) for working , shopping and leisure, the corridors, where the traffic would move.p328,E.BSilva. pedestrians were marginalised whilst cars in particular were given the position of privilege ,in his report he viewed traffic as an agent shaping the way that space is designed ,how people live ,and how people react with their enviroment and each other(p.329).Owning a car was seen as a mark of success,even prime minister Margaret Thatcher said as much in 1986 (house of commons 2003)’A man who beyond the age of twenty six, finds himself on a bus can consider himself a failure’.(p338).Buchanan coined the phrase’ car owning democracy’ p338.E.B.Silva.Traffic was bounded by rules imposed by a ever expanding traffic calming measures traffic lights ,bollards, zebra crossing’s .Buchanans approach was one of civil and engineering,it was also one of a Modernist approach his prescription the development of