Through decades after the WWII, it is not difficult to claim that still we are living in the consequences of Modernism, and the merge of cities of global capitalism is one of them, inevitably, which is the expansion of capitalism based with the key of Modernism. Everything in the process of the city growth is not evaluated by the essence of the process, instead, the efficiency, being copy-able, the scale of global development, and the common value serving as the vital criteria for a city. Indeed, all these elements provided us with the brand new world that the scale were redefined by the efficiency of capital flow rather than the physical distance, for example , as a banker, or even an “urban designer”, you can decide what is going to happen in China when you sitting in the office in NYC; however, coming with, global capitalism is destroying the identity of cities, the self-protection of regional economy system such as the recent financial crisis which is the aftermath for the all the countries engaged in globalization, as is shown in the diagrams and photos.
the diagram is original composed by Wilson
Luckily, people are coming to realize the problem of uncontrolled globalization. Some architects, like Utzon, Aalto, are working to recalling the sense of places and for now there being the theory of critical regionalism headed by Tzonis, and so forth. Also in the field of urban design there are so many pacers, like Jan Gehl.
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