Vernacular and Transnational Urbanism
Vernacular Urbanism and Transnational Urbanism are two different types of urbanism that are opposite to each other in many ways. As one is more focused on the desires of the local people where the other is focused on the desires of the world for the area. And while these two are completely different there are still some similarities and that arises through the destruction that they both bring forth. It is through the writings of both Eric Darton and Henry Glassie that we look over the information found and begin to understand their similarities and differences.
To start Vernacular urbanism is the when the life of its city/town/place is based upon it local area and its needs. Meaning the surroundings and the history is very important to the inhabitants and its through this that the urban life is constantly changing to allow to fit the needs of the people that live with in the urban area. One such case can be seen in Henry Glassie’s book “Vernacular Architecture”, when Mrs. Cutler lived in a small rural community where they lived with large houses that had thatched roofs. However, her son lived in a large rural area and knew that he would never live in a thatched roof house, so she changed the roof to be metal instead. This was an example of Vernacular urbanism due to them changing to fit a need for them. Thus vernacular urbanism is always changing over time as the needs of the people there change as well were thatched roofs were the history and connection to nature of the past the present and view of thing in the future is more permanente form of roofing such as metal and this the needs of the people changed to be metal instead of thatch.
Second is transnational urbanism which is when the life of the city/town/place changes to fit the desire of the world or another place and not of the needs of the local people instead. In an example would be in “” is possible to grasp the incalculably great price we pay for ceding our political wills to sovereign authorizes with big plans for us little people. Which from the fact that the outside power did not fallow the rules of the local people and instead used their influence to build evert thing to be as they desired. Even if they decided to leave out some things that the local government saw as important.
Third Vernacular and Transnational urbanism are very different from one another as one is for the local people and the second one is for the people beyond the local community. However, there is still some similarities for the two Vernacular is when the old is replaced with the new as needed by the local group where Transnational is when the old is destroyed to make way for the new ideals of the outside group. In an example in Eric Darton’s Book After the World Trade Center where the displacement of hundreds of people that lived in Radio Row was just so that they could built the new skyscraper instead.