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City in City
New York City is known as city that never sleeps. Sometime New York is controlled by its residents or sometimes it controls its residents. There are so many factors which play an essential role to develop any city like economy, immigrants, basic transportation and communication facilities, population, geography and weather. This essay mainly focuses [...]
Elements of New York…
Physical Forms of City
Kevin Lynch has classified city’s physical form into five types of elements: paths, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks. Paths: Paths are the channels along which the observer customarily, occasionally, or potentially moves. They may be streets, walkways, transit lines, canals, and railroad. One can observe the city and activities while moving through paths. Along the [...]
NY Times Links
Yesterday and today the NY Times covered an interesting Q&A and iPhone app on two of their blogs – Freakonomics and City Room. Freakonomics Can “Charter Cities” Change the World? A Q&A With Paul Romer The key to the project is a charter city, which starts out as a city-sized piece of uninhabited territory and [...]
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 [...]
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