Planerat, alltför planerat : En perspektivistisk studie i stadsplaneringens paradoxer

Sammanfattning: Why is it that modern architects and planners ? these benevolent and socially visionary ?experts? ? have created environments that can make one feel so uneasy? Such is the question that eventually grew into this thesis, where the aim is to enter into and understand the gap between ideals and realities in planning and architecture, with particular focus on projects that try to create an ?urban atmosphere?. As a starting point the author returns to the feelings she felt when she first visited one of these expertly planned areas; what the architects had described as an attractive, urban environment was to her a ghost town without life. Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche?s philosophy of perspectivism the study locates the gap to the area between two fixed points, each representing different attitudes towards the urban: the Eye of the Architect and the Body of the Fl