Archive for September, 2009
Brand New Old Shoes
On July of 1997, I moved from a small coastal city in Morocco to Los Angeles California to go to college, with anything in my mind but the idea of pursuing a career. My main reason for moving to the sunny state was to live the surfer life I have been dreaming about for as [...]
What is a city?
The Generic City
The article is a depressing overview of the city by the author. I’m not sure I understand it and certainly don’t get anything out of it. The article is broken down into several sections and includes commentary on city statistics, airports, urbanism, politics, sociology, population, architecture, geography, history, identity, culture and infrastructure.
The author [...]
How To Build A City (Roman Operating System)
How To Build A City (Roman Operating System)
Summary by Matt Skinner
This article based on the dated Roman Operating System, which gives clear guidelines on what was at the time the most important act for maintaining the Roman Empire, the reproduction of generic cities or “genericities”. The city would be arranged on a matrix with [...]
City
In “what is a city?” Mumford lays out his fundamental propositions about city planning and the human potential, both individual and social, of urban life. He says that most of housing and city planning has been not well planned because who have undertaken the work have had no clear notion of the social functions of [...]
City…
According to Lewis Mumford a city should be planned individually and socially. The social functions should be the essence of the city. “City: Theater” is an interesting analogy. The city is like a theater of social actions and everything in it is about the social drama. Like a theater city has a fixed site, durable [...]
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