Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Arcosanti: Paolo Soleri's futuristic vision of urbanism
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Fig. 1 - view of Arcosanti The other day my wife and I visited Arcosanti, the futuristic urban development in the desert an hour north o...
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Are shantytowns a normal form of urban residence?
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People’s views of shantytowns—areas of informal settlement, often by squatters—have varied greatly over the years. Squatters settlements ...
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Sunday, March 6, 2011
Temporary Cities: Burning Man, Quartzsite, and Chalma
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“Black Rock City” exists as a human settlement for only eight days each year. The rest of the time, it is an empty patch of arid desert....
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Addis Ababa in 1900: A “collection of villages” that was capital of an empire
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At the end of the nineteenth century, Addis Ababa was a city of 100,000 and capital of a large empire. Emperor Menelik II was one of the mos...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
What is a city? Definitions of the urban
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What is a city? How do we distinguish urban from non-urban settlements in ways that make sense? Does it matter how we define cities, or...
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