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Benjamin [inactive]
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| fab wrote: | | Yes, quite. Especially Rotterdam and La Haye. Amsterdam have a bit more wide historic center (but still not much densely constructed), so it is a little bit different. socilogically for What I saw it seem be quite true also. |
Likewise, one cannot really say that London exactly fits that model either, as it does not really have a small centre dedicated mainly to business and retail as such. Equally, that model only applies to the larger British cities; it does not really fit at all for small cities like Cambridge, Oxford, Exeter, Durham, Canterbury etc.
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Uriel
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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Albuquerque from the air:
It's a little hard to see through the mass ascension, but it's pretty spread out.
You can OD on adobe in New Mexico:
Santa Fe
Old Town, Albuquerque
Las Cruces --note the tastefully xeriscaped yard
Acoma Sky City -- said to be the oldest continuously inhabited town in the US, although the screen doors may have been added after Coronado passed through in the 1500's |
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greg in noord-frankrijk
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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Très jolies phtos, Porthos. Celles-ci en particulier, je trouve :
Celle-là est trop drôle :
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Deborah
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:32 am Post subject: |
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| Uriel wrote: |
Old Town, Albuquerque
Las Cruces --note the tastefully xeriscaped yard
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What with the missing picture of Albuquerque's Old Town, I thought your comment about xeriscaping went with the picture of Acoma Sky City.  That's true xeriscaping! |
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fab
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:50 am Post subject: |
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Oui, c'est vrai que Las Vegas est une ville disons, pour le moins urbainement amusante (à condition de na pas avoir été ruiné...). Une sorte de ville-parc d'attraction sortie du désert...
En ce moment c'est Dubai qui tente de suivre l'exemple Las Vegasien :
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fab
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:00 am Post subject: |
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European diversity :
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Benjamin [inactive]
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:43 am Post subject: |
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| So there's just a lot of snow in Poland then? |
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fab
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:43 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | So there's just a lot of snow in Poland then?
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Actually I'm now beguining to make a little comparative study about the urbanistic organisation in various countries. I'm currently making the cover, but I think it may will change a bit from this one.
On this subject we use google earth as a very informative source of urban information.
For exemple about the suburbian tissues major cities such as in Paris, Berlin or London;
1. London
What is the most visible about london suburbian tissues, is the homogeneity of the urban morphology in terms of structure, whatever the social classes and the type of architecture that fits in (big houses, twin houses, lined houses, etc.), ("cités-jardins").
2. Paris
In Paris, the suburbian tissue is classifiable in three main types: the former rural village centers (1) that have been included in the suburb; the "pavillonaire" tissue (2) and the "cités" (social housing of the 50-70's), the three are mescling and standing alongside without much coherence.
3. Berlin
Whatever it is independant houses, lined houses os "siedlungs", the Berlin suburbs firstly show a very low density of construstions, and very strond presence of green. most of these suburbs have been designed as "cité-jardins" in the 19th/early 20th too. |
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Benjamin [inactive]
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 1:02 am Post subject: |
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| So will your book include lots of cities? I think that Glasgow would be an interesting one to do — will you be including that? |
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fab
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| Quote: | | So will your book include lots of cities? I think that Glasgow would be an interesting one to do — will you be including that? |
I have to make a selection, and to compare what is comparable, that is to say cities of about same population and similar politico-economical weight.
I don't know If I'll include Glasgow for the moment.
But it is funny you spoke about that city because in the agency where I work since last week I work on a new project concerning the rehabilitation/reconversion of a former portuary district of Glasgow. If you know the city maybe you'll recognise the place (first photo) :
With the city center;
Glasgow "suburbian"
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Benjamin [inactive]
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 1:47 am Post subject: |
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| I'm afraid I've never actually been to Glasgow. All I know is that it has a large city centre, a lot of more up-market tenements (appartments in townhouses), and then a lot of very deprived areas further out of concrete blocks of flats which are apparently home to the worst poverty in Western Europe with life expectancies lower than that of the Gaza Strip. |
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fab
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I've never been to Glagow either, I've not studies enouth its history, but for what I saw on the photos It seems to look like the urban structure of most industrial British cities with a dense center of about 1,5km wide only surounded by huge suburbian areas of dozens of km wide.
Socially speaking this city is "sinistrée", like the old industrial cities of nord pas de Calais for exemple. But that's an interesting subjext for a urbanist ; "how to create a renewal movement in declining industrial cities?"
unlike Edinbourg which is more "historic" and We shoud say much more charming.
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