essays
Image of the city
The two articles “The City Image and its elements” by Kevin Lynch and “The Neighborhood, District, and the corridor” by Andres Duany and Elizabeth Zyberk deals with the aspect that there is a public image of any city which is the overlap of many individual images. Kevin Lynch article deals with the structure of a [...]
Elements Reflecting the Image of City
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 [...]
Elements of the city…..
The neighborhood, the district the corridor: In summary: neighborhoods are a mixture of human activity while districts are just a single activity. And corridors connect the two. A single neighborhood is a village. And cities are made up of a combination of all of the above. Traditional neighborhood developments and transit orientated developments are similar [...]
What is a city?
The Generic City The article is a depressing overview of the city by the author. I’m not sure I understand it and certainly don’t get anything out of it. The article is broken down into several sections and includes commentary on city statistics, airports, urbanism, politics, sociology, population, architecture, geography, history, identity, culture and infrastructure. [...]
City…
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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