Denise Scott Brown’s active socioplastics and urban sociology: from Learning from West End to Learning from Levittown

The article examines the impact of study for Levittown urban sociologist Herbert Gans on Denise Scott Brown’s thought. It scrutinizes Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour’s ‘Remedial Housing Architects or Learning from Levittown’ conducted in collaboration with their students at Yale University 1970. Taking as its starting point endeavour to redefine functionalism ‘Architecture Patterns Systems: Planning’, ‘The Redefinition Functionalism’, which were included Architecture Signs For a Mannerist Time (2004), sheds light fact that intention shape new way conceiving was already present Las Vegas, where Brown Izenour suggested an understanding Vegas pattern activities. Particular emphasis is placed ‘active socioplastics’, advocacy planning sociology her approach. At core reflections developed this concept ‘urban village’ uses US Urban Villagers: Group Class Life Italian-Americans (1972) shed socio-anthropological aspects inhabiting fabric.