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Industrial revolution – mass production enabled
cities to grow
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Infrastructure and capital and people = City
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The anatomy of the city – the structure and
function:
- City makes connections – concentrated
dose of activity. Human life compressed.
- Cities are more productive economically
and socially – universities, temples etc. and environmentally – exclusively
they have the biggest impact on nature
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“A city is transaction maximising system”
Richard Meyer 1968.
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To read: Ed Bacon – Design of Cities. William H
White. Allan Jacobs – Great Streets.
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Compresses all the senses – concentrated density
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Different people experience the same phenomenon
in different ways – planners need to provide variety throughout the city
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Two important parts of humans:
- Social
- Territorial – Global market, governing
bodies, boundaries
19th century Europe was
expanding so much they removed their walls around the cities
American cities never had any and Beijing
removed them in 1960’s
Public/private
Property law (zoning) – use, title, planning
for city/project ownership
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Communities of interest and communities of place
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Manuel Kastells:
The way we live and the debt, mortgages
etc. based on the ‘Australian dream’. This way of living (unsustainable) is the
reason of the CRISIS due to it being fuelled by debt.
CRISIS – inability of a system to reproduce
itself – change, adapt, evolve.
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