Urban Ruaral Dichotomy, Vernacular Architecture in the framework of Habitat Anthropology

* Architectural and urban planning should become critically aware of the very non-scientific aprioris and devaluating attitudes inherent in the humanities. Present humanities simply project urban values on the rural population. It does not consider the parameters produced by the evolutionary relation between rural and urban, as listed in our scheme called 'urban-rural dichotomy'.
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* In this sense, vernacular architecture is not only an expression of existential conditions of the rural past contrasting with the contemporary urban, it is also - scientifically and objectively equivalent to the 'urban' - an important source material for the reconstruction of the evolution of human settlement (P. Oliver [ed.] Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World}.
* Researchers of the vernacular, as well as architects and planners, must become aware of the extremely reductive methods used by art historians (vague aesthetics, distortions of style method, architectural 'history' much deeper than 'pyramids' [constructivity ~22 million years]) which leads
to great distortions in present judgements regarding architecture, urban as well as vernacular. * Architectural and urban research should use anthropological methods to gain insights into the factual complexities of the human habitat, urban and rural (Space, Time, Art/Arch, Ontology, Religion, History, Sociopolitical parameters of Rural and Urban
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* These reconstructions should also critically indicate the problematic intrusions of modernism into the traditional landscapes by forcefully imposing universal space concepts on anthropologically evolved concepts of space.
The ultimate goal would be the question, how today, using parameters gained by anthropological research, an "Anthro-village" would have to be planned and built. Planners would have to reflect on the conditions of space and time, about how its inhabitants - as a modern community - would identify themselves with art and architecture, with their worldview (ontology) including life philosophy, religion and history and how they would plan their sociopolitical system.