Abstract
São Paulo started the 20th century as a 240 thousand inhabitant town and concluded it as a 10 million inhabitant center of a metropolitan zone of 17,8 million inhabitants. The congestion and disorder disguise the planning efforts conceived since the first decade, but only partially implemented. This article highlights some of the most important urban planning proposals as the Avenue Plan (1930), the Robert Moses’s Plano de Melhoramentos (1950), the Basic Urbanization Plan (PUB, 1969) and the last Review of the Master Plan (2013-14) to São Paulo, and the challenges resulted of the pace of demographic and urban growth in that century.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, High density architecture, Urban growth, Modern urban planning, São Paulo modern architecture.

Issue 50
Year 2014
Pages 36-43
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/50.A.3EH7PMUY

Abstract
China’s massive capital accumulation, economic ascent and wealth production has largely been the result of their rapid urbanization effort. While it is indisputable that the country has largely succeeded in its economic reform efforts given its status as the world’s second largest economy and in that process lifted hundreds of millions of its population out of poverty, it has also, in that process, created severe social inequality and friction. This essay largely argues that Chinese cities are purpose-built financial instruments for capital accumulation, a result of the forces of globalization which could only have happened in sync with the time and space of a global economy. Though highly successful, so far the process has marginalized the objective of social integration into its performative matrix indexing. In this regard China has pursued an exploitive model of market driven urbanization and the resultant morphological and spatial attributes of the Chinese cities, while having achieved spectacular results on many levels, are nevertheless disjunctive. They are commodities of generic sameness that are mass-produced and exhibit the same anesthetizing effects of the spectacle that are ever prevalent in today’s global market production process, product and place. Recognizing that globalization and capitalism are here to stay in the immediate future, it begs the question if China, while having already undertaken extreme economic reform experimentations allowing it to now bask in its temporal success, will be able to leverage its acquired market knowledge and wealth creation to prospectively overcome the incredibly complex challenge of creating equitable cities in the future — ones that balance the demands of capital production on the one hand and social equity on the other — or rather will it sink deeper into the “neoliberal modern society” that it has already become.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, High density architecture, Urban growth, Modern urban planning, Chinese modern cities, Market-driven urbanization.

Issue 50
Year 2014
Pages 28-35
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/50.A.P1MVWPP2

Abstract
Swoo-Geun Kim’s building projects in the Daehangno area of Seoul provide a remarkable example of how architects can respond to high-density environments. They also illustrate both the theoretical and the practical dimensions of the concept of correlativity, still having the potential to show us a way forward. Inspired by the urban equivalent of a traditional village structure, Kim sublimated into modern building types the fluid indeterminate spaces created by its alleyways and courtyard. This legacy is what has enabled these buildings to survive handsomely for some thirty years amid the omnipresent threat of high-density development in Seoul.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, High density architecture, Urban growth, Modern urban planning, Swoo-Geun Kim, Seoul modern architecture.

Issue 50
Year 2014
Pages 20-27
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/50.A.008PTHX7

Abstract
“Post-global” is a coined word signifying a chaotic state or a transitional period after the violent gale of globalism that created a large gap between the new and the old. Reproving the global power game for having created evil paradises that repress individual evolutions and highest value of lives, the essay attempts to refute the historic and cultural agenda in global standard propagating them as a new paradigm that holds the key to accomplish the global mission, and to conjecture that small plans toward local community would offer guidelines to recur gradually to the state of “milieu”, a collective balance.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, High density architecture, Urban growth, Modern urban planning, Post-global architecture, Asian cities.

Issue 50
Year 2014
Pages 16-19
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/50.A.IUT6RVGY

Abstract
Seoul is a city of discontinuities, a sequence of fragments that collectively converge to form an urban settlement set against a dramatic natural backdrop. At the heart of Seoul’s DNA is absence, or rather the absence of any grid. Unlike its neighboring capitals – Beijing and Tokyo, Seoul is a capital whose urban fabric expands in direct symbiosis with its topography.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, High density architecture, Urban growth, Modern urban planning, Seoul modern architecture, Korean churches, Contemporary metropolis.

Issue 50
Year 2014
Pages 11-15
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/50.A.MA1H3Z7I

Abstract
In this issue, the parameters for the conservation and documentation of the city are defined through multiple lenses of economy, culture, politics and history reflecting critical and acute positions within the 2014 global hegemony. Following docomomo’s focus, this issue expands the Modern Movement legacy by advocating that the holistic understanding of architecture must include the study of urbanism. Unlike architecture, urbanism is an open-ended organism and its raison d’être is reinforced through layers of history. It is through these layers that we advocate for conservation and documentation.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, High density architecture, Urban growth, Modern urban planning.

Issue 50
Year 2014
Pages 10
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/50.A.ZLVVQI5F