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04 Aug 2009, 6:46 pm

I'm interested in city design and whatnot. Does anyone here have some resources I can use? I know of city-data and skyscraper city and all..


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04 Aug 2009, 8:14 pm

Warsie wrote:
I'm interested in city design and whatnot. Does anyone here have some resources I can use? I know of city-data and skyscraper city and all..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_design

has lots of pointers.

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05 Aug 2009, 2:32 pm

one possibility; look up arcology. It's 60s-era, but interesting in terms of city design.



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11 Aug 2009, 5:50 pm

pakled wrote:
one possibility; look up arcology. It's 60s-era, but interesting in terms of city design.


Seen some stuff on that. Giant structures. They're going to try some of those in Tokyo and Hong Kong from what I remember

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Warsie wrote:
I'm interested in city design and whatnot. Does anyone here have some resources I can use? I know of city-data and skyscraper city and all..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_design

has lots of pointers.

ruveyhn


thx. think iv looked over this or the urban geography article.


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11 Aug 2009, 8:28 pm

glorified bump in some cases but interesting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekistics


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11 Aug 2009, 8:50 pm

Guess it depends on more specifically what you're looking for. If you like city artwork, look for an artist named Kevin Cappis (possibly Kappis).



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12 Aug 2009, 1:31 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Urbanism

An author you might be interested in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs


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14 Aug 2009, 1:28 am

google Kowloon walled city


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