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Tag Archives: city planning
A Question of Nomenclature: What is a Neighborhood?
What, exactly, is a neighborhood? People on all sides of the urban conversation talk about neighborhoods, trotting them out to support everything from transit oriented development to the suburban status quo, from Smart Growth to no growth. Formal definitions vary, but few include criteria beyond a set of distinctive characteristics shared by a contiguous geographic area inhabited by people who behave neighborly. Which, despite its vagueness, sounds sensible enough. Imprecise, but sensible. And yet, when I think about the neighborhoods I’ve lived in, or spent time in, few of them fit even this ambiguous definition.
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Posted in Culture, History, Josh Grigsby, Nomenclature, Personal Experiences, Sarasota, urban design, urban planning, vernacular architecture, walkable, What if?
Tagged American urbanism, Back BAy, boston, Burns Square, Cambridge, city planning, community planning, convenience shopping, definition of neighborhood, electricity, Florida, Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, Harvard Square, Jane Jacobs, Laurel Park, Main Street, Margaritaville, Methyl Street, Mongols, Montana Avenue, neighborhood, neighborhood association, New Urbanism, Nomenclature, North End, Pacific Palisades, pedestrians, planning theory, Providence, Santa Monica, Sarasota, Siege of Baghdad, small town, Smart Growth, surburban, Tamiami Trail, tourists, Towles Court, transit-oriented development, urban, village, walkable, zoning
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A Brief History of Grid Plans, Ancient to Renaissance
The grid plan dates from antiquity; some of the earliest planned cities were built using grids. This article describes the first historical appearances of grid plans in various parts of the world.
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Posted in Culture, History, human scale, Placemaking
Tagged Algeria, ancient city grids, axis, B.B. Lal, Babylon, bastides, bitumen, cardo, China, Chinese grid-planning principles, city planning, colonial outposts, decumanus, Egypt, France, Fujiwara-kyo, Giza, Granada, Greece, grid layout, grid plan, Hammurabi, Hippodamus, History of city grid, ideal capital city, Indus Valley, Japan, Kalibangan, Kaogongji, Korea, Kyongju, Kyoto, Laurence Aurbach, Medieval European towns, Mexico City, Miletus, Mohenjo-daro, Nara, Nebuchadnezzar, orthogonal grid, Pakistan, paved avenues, Ped Shed, Pythagoreans, Roman city planners, Santa Fe, Spain, Spring and Autumn Period, square grid, straight streets, Teotihuacan, Timgad, urban planning, Wales
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