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This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context. The authors, rejecting the grand utopian visions of "total planning" and "total design," propose instead a "collage city" which can accommodate a whole range of utopias in miniature.
Rowe and Koetter claim that discussion of the object and texture is not very much different than a discussion of solid and void. Also, modern city and traditional city have an inverse relationship in terms of solid-void and figure-ground maps such as in the plan of Wiesbaden. Figure-ground characteristics in the diagrams of the traditional and the modern city point to their functions. In the diagram of the traditional city, voids represent public spaces. In the diagram of the modern city, solids represent private spaces. In other words, It means that different scales for different usages and experiences with solid void relationship. I thought that these changes in the function of usage of solid and void indicate that characters of spaces can change over time. Authors argue that the opposite character of their functions shows the inverse version of their identity. However, I thought that the collage approach starts from there. They are not inverse versions of each other, they are modified versions of each other according to their character. This modification provided by overlapping the information over time according to the needs of inhabitants. Also, I think that collecting the same functions in the same part of the city can cause accessibility problem. Similarly, Ddviding city into two parts according to their functions can affect the characteristic of the city and existing texture.
Karl Popper was very important because Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter were affected by his ideas especially about utopia while they develop the idea of the collage city.. Popper was prominent name in the philosophy of science. Designed and very strictly isolated models of society, say, utopias are criticized by him. Rowe and Koetter did not reject utopia totally, they just believed that modernism and tradition, reality and fantasy ought to be combined.
Collage City Colin Rowe, 1978 Rowe criticised the modernist utopia ideas as a form of totalitarianism similar to visions of Marxism. He claimed that rationalism of modernism suppressed diversity and complexity. Instead Rowe proposed a city of fragments: collage city.
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