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NEW YORK c2400 a.d.

INTRODUCTION In this article, I will talk about the future of New York in my mind, as I envision it. There are some tendencies in according to today’s urban development that allow us to conceive what future cities are like. My best guess is that these, in a great way, are influenced by the past [...]

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The Squares of New York, their individual social culture and connection to Broadway as a path

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New York’s Polis

In this writing, I will talk about the ‘polis’ — a form of Greek community.  I will connect it to other readings from architectural and urban history and theory classes (from this semester and last semester). Lastly, I plan on connecting the reading to New York City’s urban landscape though some connections to New York’s [...]

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Kevin Lynch vs. New Urbanists

New York, via Kevin Lynch New York City is the largest city in the United States, as the largest city, it has become famous for its city image, both as an urban city, and as an urban area. Something we today unconsciously connect with Kevin Lynch’s view of a city. Kevin Lynch researched how people [...]

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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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