Item 18 - Appeal Application Nos. 2023-02 and 2023-03 for Cabrillo Town Center project

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HISTORIC RESOURCES ASSESSMENT TOWN CENTER PLAZA � C A A DULY 2022 SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA J For example, although the East Bay suburbs between Oakland and San Jose experienced dramatic growth from the mid-1940s to the 1950s, by the late 1960s the fastest growth was in the east -of -East Bay communities situated along the BART line and the Interstate 680 corridor: Concord, Walnut Creek, and Pleasanton. Similarly, as the San Fernando Valley and the southerly suburbs of Los Angeles approached build -out in the mid-1960s, housing construction moved north, into Ventura County; east, into the Inland Empire communities of Riverside and San Bernardino counties; and especially south, into coastal Orange County. The postwar metropolitan region is often imagined as a central city dominated by a downtown business district and surrounded by bedroom suburbs. However, this image was accurate only briefly and then only as a snapshot of a constantly evolving metropolis. By the mid-1970s, most American metropolitan areas had become complex and multicentered entities with housing, retail, and employment widely dispersed across an area far greater than that of prewar metropolitan areas. Modernism and New Formalism Styles Except where noted, this section is adapted from "A History of American Architecture: Buildings in Their Cultural and Technological Context," by Mark Gelernter 1999. In the aftermath of the devastation wrought by World War II much of the world, including America, acquired a new enthusiasm for technology. This eventually influenced architecture. High Technology fully entered most people's lives during the 1950s and 1960s: commercial jets; televisions; landing a man on the moon. Many people believed that science and technology would solve most of the world's problems. People in the Third World (former colonies) mimicked the High Technology of Europe and America. Architectural ideas seen to be derived from High Technology spread throughout the world. This amounted to the triumph of Modernism, whose austere, ahistorical forms symbolized a break with the past and a shiny new age of peace and prosperity. It was the atomic age. The Modernist conception of design as rational problem -solving appealed to the generation that had similarly used rational problem -solving methods to tackle the logistical complexities of World War II. The Modernist emphasis on rational and efficient building techniques accorded well with the general enthusiasm for High Technology during this period. For both government and private corporations, the visual characteristics of the Modernist style seemed to sum up their own self-image: rational, efficient, confident possessors of immense power and wealth, and yet neither flashy nor desirous of individual expression. Architectural styles possess no single, intrinsic meaning. In the 1920s and 1930s, radical Modernism stood for Socialism and Collectivism. In the 1950s, Modernism stood for conservative American Government and American Free Enterprise (corporations). By the 1960s, the Modernist style had crossed all economic and political boundaries into: Communist countries of the Soviet Block; Social Play °touncif �07/21/22) 18 - 783 10/3/2023 12