"The City" essays
Building the “NEW” New York
NEW YORK City, A vertical city famous as a Major Financial center of the world, Fashion district is actually a Forest full of Concrete trees with different mass, color, texture. A Forest surrounded by water almost all sides, was a major port once upon a time is now massive island.
Global cities- where banks, corporate headquarters [...]
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 [...]
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 city [...]
Brand New Old Shoes
On July of 1997, I moved from a small coastal city in Morocco to Los Angeles California to go to college, with anything in my mind but the idea of pursuing a career. My main reason for moving to the sunny state was to live the surfer life I have been dreaming about for as [...]
“How To Study Cities”
Gregoire Filcidor
History Seminar I
“How To Study Cities” is an introductory article that pays tribute to the many great theorist, scientists, authors and who ever contributed to the study of understand the city. Richard LeGate author if this article goes through the many steps and ways one may take to approach the city. He mentions [...]
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