#planned cities

[ancientstuff]

Excavations in Israel uncover vast 5,000-year-old city and temple for religious rituals

A vast city, around 5000 years old, the largest and the most central ever uncovered in Israel, was uncovered during extensive excavations b...

This looks like an incredible site. Planned cities, at least in Egypt, are the result of government oversight, and are purpose-built. This one, with its defensive walls, was built for precisely that, it would seem - defense against invaders of some kind.

[eopederson]

Postcard: Columbia, Maryland, mid 1960s.

The card is undated, but its date can be estimated from the combination of the zip code in the publisher address and the fact that I purchased it on my first visit in1969 to the “planned city,” (with its counterpart in ole virginny Reston) supposedly the solution to the slurbanization of the Baltimore-Washington area. In fact both are now islands in a largely undifferentiated slurb which stretches from the Pennsylvania state line (where it merges with the slurbs of Philly) southward to  merge with the slurbs of Richmond. One would be hard pressed to locate and visit the vantage point from which this photo was taken, for the central area of Columbia has been covered with undistinguished medium rise (5-15 stories) office buildings. It, like central Reston, has become little more than a somewhat focused location for offices and shops amidst thousands of square kilometers of low density development.

[theglobalcompass]

Cities by Design: A Journey Through the World’s Most Fascinating Planned Cities of the Last Century

Cities by Design: A Journey Through the World’s Most Fascinating Planned Cities of the Last Century

[thecitysmith]

Where did humans get the idea to use Cities for the three deaths to make a Planned City? Are the three deaths common knowledge? And how did they figure out they had to use Cities and not humans?

In the newly-American Cities’ defense, they’d just become independent and had so much hope and were so willing to share everything with their children so they could start building a country together. They didn’t realise what their children would do…they didn’t realise what it would lead to…

[olijeff72-blog]

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[thecitysmith]

Does that make Cardiff a Planned City??

Nope because she had to earn her Cityhood, she started off as a not-yet-city like all the ‘natural’ Cities. 

[thecitysmith]

I picture Washington DC as a child, barely in his teens. A boy with an innocent face but centuries of war and death in his head. Do you have a canonical view of what he looks like age-wise or are we free to make it up?

His appearance has been talked about a few times in his tag. Red head, freckled, gangly. Fairly young, yes, but you can’t be a child and the head of an empire. That sort of thing forces Cities to grow. And Planned Cities grow up faster than usual, which is one of the reasons other Cities don’t really like them.

[stadslente]

The best photo essays and interactive documentaries about cities:

Demolished: The end of Chicago’s public housing by David Eads, Helga Salinas and Patricia Evans Attempting to improve the housing conditions, Chicago built thousands of public housing units in modern high-rise apartment buildings from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. Later on the buildings became hulking symbols of urban dysfunction to the suburbanites who saw them from the expressway on their daily commute.

Why Detroit Matters: a photo tour of the motor city by Brian Douchet This tour will give you a look at Detroit and its suburbs in order to better understand what has happened to the city, and what it means for other places.

The Beautiful Lake by Mahmoud Khaled In Cairo’s Ramlet Boulaq, residents live in poverty alongside glittering high-rise developments. Disputes have broken out over land ownership, and dreams of a better future have been dashed.

A Short History of the Highrise by Katerina Cizek An interactive documentary that explores the 2,500-year global history of vertical living and the issue of social equality in an increasingly urbanized world. The centerpiece of the project is four short films. The interactive experience incorporates the films and, like a visual accordion, allows viewers to dig deeper into the project’s themes through additional archival materials, text and microgames.

The rise of megacities – interactive by Nick Mead and the Guardian Interactive team By 2025, the developing world, as we understand it now, will be home to 29 megacities. We explore the latest UN estimates and forecasts on the growth of these 'cities on steroids', and take a look at the challenges and opportunities megacities present for the tens of millions living in Lagos, Mexico City and Dhaka. Starry, Starry, Starry Night by Thierry Cohen What would New York or Shanghai look like with a full sky of brilliant stars? Thierry Cohen, thinks he can show us by blending city scenes and the night skies from less populated locations that fall on the same latitudes. The result is what city dwellers might see in the absence of light pollution.