To drive through the open rolling countryside of cement and brick at seven forty five in the morning and suddenly be caught in half-mile-long lines of commuters waiting to get through the traffic-lighted intersections is a puzzling experience. But lift your gaze to the horizon; then you realize that those distant shoeboxes (Clay) are commuter destinations. On the streets you are alone. The forests of buildings reaching for the sun like the redwoods of northern California. This is the wilderness of all wildernesses. So primitive. So unforgiving. Remember to breath and you will be fine. But do not underestimate the willingness of the man that walks beside you. We are all urbanists caught up in the stimulating mixture of art and culture. The urban condition is everywhere and none of us are immune from the physical and cultural influences of the city.
Urban life has become a product we consume as much as latest offering from Sony Pictures, Abercrombie & Fitch or American Eagle. We consume the city. In The Architecture of the City, one can say that the city itself is "the collective memory of its people" (79), and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the "locus of the collective memory" (79). This relationship between the locus and the people then becomes the city's predominant image, both of architecture and of landscape, and as certain artifacts become part of its memory, new ones emerge. "Int this entirely positive sense great ideas flow through the history of the city and give shape to it" (80).
California Spanish-tile-covered postmodern buildings. Pink bronze reflective glass. Unintended intimacies: town houses built right up next to the elevated freeway. A simply enticing office castle with an enormous archway cut right through the middle of it; eight stories, count them, eight stories high covered in blue reflective glass. The Marriott. Unfinished cement walls.
It is an extremely dark, dense and urban, with tall skyscrapers stacked in close to one another and flying cars zipping about. ... " These images originate in Metropolis almost identically. ... Amazingly, these characteristics of Metropolis seem to transcend time. ... The roots of Star Wars run deep with Metropolis. ... Many characters in Star Wars are inspired by ones from Metropolis. ...
Fritz Lang"s: Metropolis Critical Response By. Josh BoockThis Fritz Lang classic silent film of the futuristic city of metropolis and its mechanized society is possible more powerful to day then when it was released, at depicting the dehumanization of centralized urban cites. Set in the year 2000, there are two distinctive class divisions in the megalopolis of metropolis: the toiling labor force dwelling underneath the conurbation in slums toiling away in a vain effort to keep the machine going, working ten hour days every day but never getting ahead. ... Presiding over this convoluted comple...
Urban population growth in most Asian countries is between 1 and 7.4. ... Cities of the developing world are dominant in the size rating of urban places. ... In 1950, New York was the largest urban place in the world. ... a) Rural - 78.9%, urban - 15.7% b) Rural - 72%, urban - 32% c) Rural - 50%, urban - 53% 4. ... The process of increasing population and converting cities to the metropolises and even megalopolises is called urbanization. ...
Over the course of time a lot has changed and the land has been developed and all across Canada there are very large cities and other urban areas dispersed amongst the country. ... For example if one were to travel to Montreal they would experience a setting much similar to that of an urban city in the United States such as New York City or Boston, where people are constantly in a rush and everybody and everything is traveling at 100 miles an hour and this is due to the trade route that goes right by the city that has evolved Montreal into the metropolis that it has become today. ... Alberta a...
When urban centers in America were beginning to take shape, people moved in droves to these industrial metropolises to find work and success. ... Through the years, urban areas grew with new suburban towns encircling the city. ... New laws in urban centers gave way to a new cultural group as well: criminals. ... Slums were still a problem in urban America, partly due to the people caught in the cyclical poor lives of urban dwelling. ... The lack of federal aid in urban areas made the cities try to survive mostly on their own. ...
When urban centers in America were beginning to take shape, people moved in droves to these industrial metropolises to find work and success. ... Through the years, urban areas grew with new suburban towns encircling the city. ... New laws in urban centers gave way to a new cultural group as well: criminals. ... Slums were still a problem in urban America, partly due to the people caught in the cyclical poor lives of urban dwelling. ... The lack of federal aid in urban areas made the cities try to survive mostly on their own. ...
Gradually many urban settlements and urban centers acquire European features while not losing the Muslim-oriental character of old village. ... Also, it is estimated that 45% population lives in urban areas (based on estimates from 2004), with an average annual growth of urban population in the last 15 years of 0.3%. ... -Polarization in the urban development of Bosnia and Herzegovina is reflected in a very dynamic monocentralism metropolis that is growing domination of Sarajevo and macro-regional centers Banja Luka, Tuzla and Mostar, which is intensified by the consequences of war, durin...
(Paul Rutherford, "Tomorrow's Metropolis: The Urban Reform Movement in Canada, 1880 - 1920") By analyzing the ingredients of the ideal society around the year of 1920, it is conclusive that when considering our society today, the reformers of the day were realistic in the programs for change. ... " They reasoned that by saving the young, they could ultimately save the future these people saw the child as tomorrow's hope for a better society- (Paul Rutherford, "Tomorrow's Metropolis: The Urban Reform Movement in Canada, 1880 - 1920") When considering our society today, it ...
