Making Cities That Thrive
What makes a city thrive? Is it it’s location? Availability of Natural Resources? Human capital? Edward Glaeser at the New York Times Economix takes an interesting look at why. He speaks about vertical integration of cities with large industries leading to their downfall. In the end, some of the conclusions go back to Jane Jacobs, … Continue reading
City scale through subways
Neil Freeman, at fakeisthenewreal.org, has analyzed the transport networks of major cities around the world, and has come up with some quite revealing images. When we usually look at transport maps, they’ve often been distorted for graphical reasons (Harry Beck’s 1933 London Tube Map), and belie the scale of the systems, and thereby the scale of … Continue reading
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