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15 Cards in this Set
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The importance of trade and communication in creating and shaping cities |
Agriculture = abundance --> Trade extra. Trade relies on communication (Where to sell/buy stuff). Cities minimize trade/transportation costs |
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The first city: Uruk in Mesopotamia
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It's the first city. |
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The grid street pattern
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China, Greeks, Pre-Columbian America. Natural outgrowth os square buildings |
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Law of the Indies urban design code
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Spanish colonies in 1600's created first, early 'town planning' principles. "They [Colonists] shall try as far as possible to have the buildings all of one type for the sake of the beauty of the town." Commons, seperation of types, etc. |
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Hippodamus (‘father’ of city planning)
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400 BCE. Originated the idea that a city plan might formally embody and facilitate a rational social order. |
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Greek and Roman urbanism
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Greek: Polis was self-goerning, small city. Plato thought cities should 5,000 max. Markets, etc. Rome: Built cities to further empire. Castra was walled, grid city. Early planned cities. Romans built highways - but Decmanus (big central intersection) was disaster. Banned carts due to noise. |
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Richard Meier’s pioneering idea: A Communications Theory of Urban Growth (1962)
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If cities are based on communication, cyberspace will kill them. Oops -- he was wrong. …or was he?
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Melvin Webber’s ‘Non-place Urban Realm”
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1964: First to envision change caused by telecommunications & Mass automotive mobility. Social links - not proximity. |
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Transistor as the key technology of modern electronics
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The basis for all modern technology. 1947 ceation.
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ARPAnet (1969)
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Pre-internet. UCLA > UC-SB > Stanford > Utah. Network of networks. |
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Manuel Castells
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"The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture." The internet "redefines distance but does not cancel geography.”
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Saskia Sassen
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Global Cities: NYC, Tokyo, London are main hubs of global economic system. Corporate HQs, financial systems, etc. Alpha, ++, etc. (LA is Alpha) |
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Richard Florida
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Rise of the Creative Class: Cities that attract creative/knowledge intensive roles (12% of the population) and create hubs to attract prosper. Those that don't stagnate. |
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DARPA Grand Challenges (2004, 2005, 2007) and autonomous vehicles |
They are coming. JM is really proud of his brother. |
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‘Smart’ Cities and Big Data
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A revival of a systems theory of planning? If we have data, can we create perfect city? |
