essays
Future of New York
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 [...]
The (New) New York:
The most useful thing I can think for the future of New York is a series of incidents that has provided constraints and opportunity in the growth of New York City. In this article I raised some questions and some suggestions that will at least alert us to the difficulties of the future.
Firstly, the shifting [...]
will nyc sustain this population growth, if not then???
The desire to peer into the future is a human trait as old as the biblical prophets and the oracle at Delphi. Such is the case today as the realization becomes every day more clear that the advanced economices of the world are entering a new global, information-based, post-industrial stage of development that promises new [...]
The City of the future – – lies in the past.
To know what kind of city New York will be in the future, you have to look to the past. The future that I am referring to is a period of less than 50 years from now, although it’s not tomorrow, next year or even the next decade. In fact, over the next few [...]
City-State is a Misnomer
According to Humphrey Kitto, our language does not have the equivalent for the Greek world “Polis” which we currently translate into “city-state”. In his essay, Kitto tries to identify the characteristics of a Greek polis to demonstrate that the word is more inclined to mean state than city, even though neither comes close enough to [...]
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