Group items tagged Urban land use - IB Geography Urban Environments

How future urban sprawl maps out : Nature News & Comment - 4 views

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The Evolution of Urban Planning in 10 Diagrams - Design - The Atlantic Cities - 5 views

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shared by Richard Allaway on 16 Nov 12 - No Cached

New Population Maps Show Americans are Still Moving to the 'Burbs : TreeHugger - 0 views

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shared by Richard Allaway on 03 May 11 - No Cached

The Places We Live - Magnum Photos - 1 views

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Jim Haske on 14 Feb 09

Jonas Bendiksen provide us with photos from four different slum areas which he visited: Caracas, Venezuela; Mumbai, India; Nairobi, Kenya; and Jakarta, Indonesia. He offers us a view of various aspects of slum life through images and narration he acquired while visiting 16 different homes in these cities.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Jonas Bendiksen provide us with photos from four different slum areas which he visited: Caracas, Venezuela; Mumbai, India; Nairobi, Kenya; and Jakarta, Indonesia. He offers us a view of various aspects of slum life through images and narration he acquired while visiting 16 different homes in these cities. </div>

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BBC News - Audio slideshow: Chicago's doomed spire - 3 views

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shared by Richard Allaway on 25 May 11 - No Cached

Richard Allaway on 25 May 11

Slide show with commentary about the high rise in Chicago and how this was the city to watch for the 20th Century and how cities might re-assess their need to build up as a traditional CBD. Helps to establish the idea of a CBD based on building height with Bid Rent and Burgess. [Submitted by Chris Stephenson]

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Slide show with commentary about the high rise in Chicago and how this was the city to watch for the 20th Century and how cities might re-assess their need to build up as a traditional CBD. Helps to establish the idea of a CBD based on building height with Bid Rent and Burgess. [Submitted by Chris Stephenson]</div>

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Day vs. night population maps - 1 views

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shared by Richard Allaway on 23 Dec 11 - No Cached

Bricoleurbanism - 0 views

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shared by Richard Allaway on 27 Mar 11 - No Cached

Richard Allaway on 27 Mar 11

[Submitted by Mike Cline]

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Combatting Extremism in Casablanca - TIME - 0 views

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shared by James Mattiace on 12 Nov 12 - No Cached

James Mattiace on 12 Nov 12

Deprivation in Casablanca suburb, linked to Chicago

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A look below the surface in gentrifying Crown Heights | Narratively - 3 views

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shared by Kathleen Noreisch on 20 Jan 13 - No Cached

Decoding Paris | Making sense of Paris one blog at a time - 2 views

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shared by James Mattiace on 12 Feb 13 - No Cached

James Mattiace on 12 Feb 13

Lots of great background on why things look the way they do in Paris.. The article on arrondissements was particularly good.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Lots of great background on why things look the way they do in Paris.. The article on arrondissements was particularly good.</div>

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Creating Hipsturbia in the Suburbs of New York - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Kathleen Noreisch on 17 Feb 13 - No Cached

Kathleen Noreisch on 17 Feb 13

New forms of suburbanization in NY. Gentrification of the suburbs?

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