@inbook{2b38d018055349dd83b09e9a1725dfdd,
title = "Looking Up: Imagining a Vertical Architecture",
abstract = "Densification is a much-used concept in urban planning in Finland today. Big cities are dealing with a growing population, and a reasonable solution to housing needs seems to be infill construction. Along with the demand for density comes a discussion about vertical building and the role of tall buildings in the city skyline and the townscape. Today{\textquoteright}s discussion is updating a similar discussion from the early decades of the 20th century, when the future seemed vertical in many urban planners{\textquoteright} visions, on both sides of the Atlantic. In this article, two such visions from the 1920s are re-visited: Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier{\textquoteright}s famous plan for the centre of Paris and Finnish-American architect Eliel Saarinen{\textquoteright}s plan for the lakefront of Chicago. These plans reflected a contemporary belief in technological advancement and showed a master planner attitude with a focus on the whole urban environment. Both planners were also looking upward, although seeing the possibilities of a vertically constructed city somewhat differently. In spite of their forward-reaching visionary qualities, both plans remained on paper, depicting a possible future that is now looked at as an alternate past. These visions and discussions of the previous century could still offer a comprehensive view for the contemporary discussion on urban density and one of its results: the vertical city. Many of the questions that should be answered when increasing densities in today{\textquoteright}s cities already had their beginnings in the visions that the 20th century architects offered for the future. ",
keywords = "high-rise, skyscraper, tall building, townscape, Saarinen, Le Corbusier",
author = "Minna Chudoba",
note = "JUFOID=86486; NAF/NAAR Symposium ; Conference date: 15-06-2017 Through 16-06-2017",
year = "2019",
month = dec,
day = "20",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-91983797-3-0",
series = "The NAAR Proceedings Series",
publisher = "Nordic Academic Press of Architectural Research",
pages = "99--124",
editor = "Toft, {Anne Elisabeth} and Magnus R{\"o}nn and {Smith Wergeland}, {Even }",
booktitle = "Reflecting Histories and Directing Futures",
edition = "2019-1",
}