Archive for September, 2009

Understanding of the city:  In the article “What is the city?” The Author Lewis Mumford discusses an meaning of the city. he described that city is a primary groups and associations like family and neighborhood. In addition, one of the meaning of the city is depended on social and physical organizations of the city, its [...]

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THE CITY

THE CITY IN HISTORY Here the author talks  about the origins of towns/cities and birth of an urban form which begun with Neolithic settlements in Western Asia, 2000/3000 years before the origination of mesopotamia. Some of the towns took urban form within huge stine walls, densely populated, had commercial trading with local materials, had streets, [...]

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What is a city?

A city is and always has been many things, but what makes a city more than anything else is the social interaction of its populace and how that populace interacts with the city’s physical elements — public spaces, transportation and infrastructure. Social needs play a more important role than physical organization in modern cities, because [...]

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“How To Study Cities”

Gregoire Filcidor History Seminar I                 “How To Study Cities” is an introductory article that pays tribute to the many great theorist, scientists, authors and who ever contributed to the study of understand the city. Richard LeGate author if this article goes through the many steps and ways one may take to approach [...]

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“What is A City ?”

“What is A City ?” Written by Lewis Mumford   Summary by Scott Rogers In this writing Mumford proposes that a city is “A theater for social action”. To Mumford this means the sociological interactions that occur between the urban population. Mumford states that a “city is a collection of primary groups and purposive associations”. [...]

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