Constantinos Doxiadis, City Planner
“Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis [1913-1975], the visionary city planner whose concepts touched the lives of millions of people around the world, […]
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What is the future of urban life in the post-pandemic city?
“As an update to our previous Gensler City Pulse, we conducted a survey of 10 cities in February 2021 to
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“American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte’s Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life” by Richard K. Rein
From Amazon… “On an otherwise normal weekday in the 1980s, commuters on busy Route 1 in central New Jersey noticed
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Cycling for Sustainable Cities
Edited by Ralph Buehler and John Pucher, The MIT Press, 2021. “Cycling is the most sustainable means of urban travel,
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Can Removing Highways Fix America’s Cities?
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Built in the 1950s to speed suburban commuters to and from downtown, Rochester’s Inner Loop destroyed hundreds
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Walmart Billionaire Marc Lore Is Planning a $500 Billion “City of the Future”
Called “Telosa,” the urban center could potentially house up to five million residents somewhere in the American Southwest While other
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Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness
Fractals, like the Powers of Ten, is a concept seemingly unrelated to urban design and city planning. However, understanding natural