ABSTRACT
Throughout the industrialised world since the 1970s, architecture has manifested its anxiety about the city in a return to traditional, and supposedly reassuring, forms of urbanism. Generally speaking, this has meant the reemergence of the pre-modern forms of the street and the square, and the privileging (if only in theory) of the pedestrian. In built form, this tendency has been most manifest in Aldo Rossi’s architecture and that of the neo-Rationalists in Italy, the Berlin work of Mathias Ungers, the town planning of Léon Krier in the Florida town of Seaside and the closely related ‘new urbanism’ of Andres Duany at Windsor and Celebration, also in Florida 1 (Figure 2.1). It was theoretically justified by such texts as Rossi’s The Architecture of the City (1966, translated 1982), Manfredo Tafuri’s Architecture and Utopia (1976) and Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter’s Collage City (1978). Centre of Celebration, Florida, in January 2003 https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203490976/b1767450-6e92-435a-a4cf-da83806a9efd/content/fig2_1_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
