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Future of New York

Posted by ikazi
October 30, 2009

Starting the journey from Penn Station reminds me of the thoughts of Kevin Lynch the way he perceives the image of a city. According to him a city consists of paths, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks. Coming out at 7th Ave. and looking on the right is one of the main landmark of the city [...]

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“New York! What can I say…”

Posted by ikazi
October 12, 2009
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Elements Reflecting the Image of City

Posted by ikazi
October 1, 2009

The thoughts of Andres Dunany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Kevin Lynch are quite similar. The former talk on large scale elements where as the later talks more on small scale elements. They all define urban place in context to its main elements. Dunany and Zyberk define spaces in context to the suburbs and concentrate on the [...]

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City…

Posted by ikazi
September 25, 2009

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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Hyderabad

Posted by ikazi
September 18, 2009

Hyderabad, a city where I have spent 23 years of my life. Being one of the oldest cities of subcontinent its populations is about 1.5 Million. It was founded in 1768 by Ghulam Shah Kalhora who was once ruler of Sindh. A city which was originally named as Neroon Kot was also known as the [...]