technical innovations and deficiencies (3.5)
Why and how to address the disparity in a park system when financial and technical innovations have helped support an era of new and improved public parks. more
the city in history
river, highway, and market (3.4)
Retracing the place-making function of a lost river in the neighborhood. more
urbanism and monumentality (3.3)
Monumental telecommunication infrastructure in contemporary urbanism affords a variety of stable, actionable pictures of the city advancing perceptions of individual agency. more
the enigma of the urban ruins (3.2)
At about 1300sqft, the dimension of the average home has remained remarkably constant throughout history. Could this have to do with home communications? more
cities of the plain (3.1)
Cities of the Plain is a name that Mumford uses to point to the origins of the city, but is also commonly used to refer to Sodom and Gomorrah. more
from ‘protection’ to destruction (2.5)
Cities have always competed with one another, but is the recent competitiveness for the highest quality of life a break with a past of war between cities? more
law and urban order (2.4)
Niagara Falls is Toronto’s Coney Island. Where Rem Koolhaas described Coney Island as the appendage of New York City, a… more
anxiety, sacrifice, and aggression (2.3)
“No matter how many valuable functions the city has furthered, it has also served, throughout most of its history, as… more
the first urban implosion (2.2)
Alhazen was asked to build a dam on the Nile in the 11th Century by the vindictive and ruthless caliph… more
the first urban transformation (2.1)
Ours is an age of a multitude of socially undirected technical advances, divorced from any other ends than the advancement… more
the paleolithic-neolithic union (1.8)
the cultural union of neolithic and paleolithic peoples. so masculinity dominated and sadistic rigour took over from easy-paced routine. advent… more
the new role of the hunter (1.7)
Certainly we can do with less hunting metaphors in politics. How about something more pastoral? Like hunters, herdsman are not… more
the contribution of the village (1.6)
The Villager’s ideal : “to delight in their food, to be proud of their clothes, to be content with their… more
ceramics, hydraulics, and geotechnics (1.5)
Under woman’s dominance, the neolithic period is pre-eminently one of containers: it is an age of stone and pottery utensils,… more
domestication and the village (1.4)
Physically permanent and socially continuous, the city betrays the experience of life as passing and uncertain. Lewis Mumford finds the… more