Most Read This Week In Urbanism
Urbanism is the study of how inhabitants of urban areas, such as towns and cities, interact with the built environment.
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The same term, "brown lands," is sometimes used to describe those parts of the modern urban landscape that have fallen to ruin, at least in the eyes of the planners who measure the city's health based on its contribution to the wealth and growth of the human community. Empty lots, abandoned buildings, trash woods—all the parcels whose former use for industry, residence, agriculture, or other productive purposes has been abandoned, often due to changing economic or technological conditions, and h
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― A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
― A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
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From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth hunting wild pig with the Nandi, later training racehorses for a living, and still later scouting Tanganyika and the waterless bush country between the Tana and Athi Rivers, by aeroplane, for elephant, I remained so happily provincial I was unable to discuss the boredom of being alive with any intelligence until I had gone to London and lived there for a year. Boredom,
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― West with the Night
― West with the Night
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