Adam's Work: Summary for Presentation Lecture

Here is my slide for the presentation lecture.

Adam Markowitz is investigating utopia, and the perception of the 'perfect future', and why Utopian ideals fail to engage with reality in the formulation of their doctrines.

In this vein, he is looking into the impact of Utopian ideals on planned public housing, by first investigating Corb's 'Radiant City', both the causative effects for this theory, and the proposed solutions.

He will then appraise these Utopian concepts in light of the mass tenement blocks that were the offspring of Corb's ideals, in order to investigate how such 'top-down' utopian planning failed to grapple with the 'bottom-up' needs on the ground, and understand why such facilities are considered such social failures.

Finally, he intends to investigate a modern planned public housing facility, K2 Apartments, which is being promoted by the state government as the 'sustainable future' in terms of medium-rise high density housing. He will appraise whether or not this project is dealing with the reality on the ground, or is blinded by top-down utopian ideals.