Class today included:
The Real Slim Shady (Instrumental - The Singles Boxset): Eminem (4:45); Jesus, etc. (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot): Wilco (4:00)
Reading review:
Mumford, “What is a city” – social nature of cities
Jacobs, “The kind of problem a city is” – what to consider in looking at cities
Lynch, “The image of the environment” – identity, structure, and meaning
Mumford, “The Disappearing City” – formless urbanization
Ellin, “The Tao of Urbanism” – integrated nature of cities
Torres-Fleming, “Of things seen and unseen” – how experience shapes vision
Macek, “The Cinema of Suburban Paranoia” – familiar urban movie themes
Sandercock, “A Planning Imagination…” – reshaping planning thought
Sandercock, “A New Spin on the Creative City” – the role of creativity
Krieger, “Pervasive Urban Media Documentation” – urban tomography
Krieger, “Urban Tomography” – examples and application
Koolhaas, “The Generic City” – considering urban form and reality
Sitte, “The Meager and Unimaginative Character of Modern City Plans” and “Artistic Limitations of Modern City Planning” – cities as art?Video: A Man a Camera
The class that came in after ours was about mushrooms. Interesting.
This link describes a new online platform for collaborative urban planning:
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Betaville can be accessed at betaville.net
CLASS CONTRIBUTION:
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Artists use plastic bags to show environmental degradation.
Class Contribution - Kelley O'Leary
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class contribution - Jacob Bruch
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Class Contribution- Kelsey Thompson
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These are pictures that I took in the Philippines over our winter break. They show the disorganization of a developing country and the poverty that they face.
Class Contribution: Kristen Fulmer
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Class contribution: Abby Bugas
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Two physicists, Luis Bettencourt and Geoffrey West, explain one tidy mathematical formula that they believe holds the key to what drives a city. By recording the average speed of walking in any particular city, they can determine, fairly accurately, the population size, the average wage, the amount of crime, the number of colleges, number of libraries, the number or AID cases, GDP, cultural events per capita... incredible!
Smart Green Infrastructure: How To Grow Sustainable Cities
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"Feed by Seed" is a non-profit (but not yet a 501 (C) 3) which is very newly established by me which plans and executes international agriculture advocacy, fundraising, and development projects which place special emphasis on agriculture education. Feed by Seed does travel to the countries in which it works with and will be going to Somotillo, Nicaragua this summer with a small team to work towards starting its mission statement there (Dates are yet to be determined).
This site below has pictures and information I personally have gathered that shows the state of a few cities in Nicaragua and Zambia, Africa (as well as a program to help develop those cities)
http://www.facebook.com/FeedbySeed