Lower Nine Squares: Designing for the Automobile

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New Haven, CT
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Lower Nine Squares: Designing for the Automobile

Credit

Photo credit: Crawford Manor designed by Paul Rudolph, 1965. Photo courtesy of the New
Haven Preservation Trust.

The Lower Nine Squares: Designing for the Automobile tour largely follows alongside the ill-fated Oak Street Connector, one of New Haven’s most famous Urban Renewal initiatives.  It also highlights a scale-shift from the human scaled city to feature a number of sites designed with the automobile in mind, and more specifically, to be viewed through the windshield, at the speed of a moving car. 

 

The collection of buildings designed by Paul Rudolph, Kevin Roche/John Dinkeloo & Associates and Orr, deCossey, Winder and Associates ranges from social support structures, anchors of civic pride to general infrastructure.  This tour will discuss the design thinking, popular reception, and modern views of the many sites along this armature.

 

Guide: The tour will be led by Sean Khorsandi, executive director of LANDMARK WEST! and Docomomo US New York/Tri-State board member.

 

Walking Tour

$35

Space is limited. 

Contrasting Approaches to Post-Modern Urbanism: Government Center and Audubon Arts District 1968-1990

See the evolution of New Haven’s urban planning from large-scale, sweeping urban renewal to the reactive response of adaptive renovations and historically-sensitive contextual projects. This walking tour will cover several prominent buildings and spaces of the 1970s and ’80s along the New Haven Green, Government Center and the Arts District of Audubon Street.

 

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New Haven, CT