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CITYSCAPE and LANDSCAPE: Points of Entry and Epicentres (1)

General considerations. In my last two posts I examined the relationship between cityscape and landscape in terms of limits, linkages and memory figures, whereby the land and the history of its urban settlement contributed to the qualification of those figures. I have become interested, since then, in the question of the physical articulation of entry …

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The Physical City: Agents of Urban Sociability

INTRODUCTION Since my retirement from teaching environment and behavior courses to aspiring designers and architects I have directed my attention to the physical city, analyzing what I see as agents of urban sociability. My friend and classmate, the cultural geographer Falken Forshaw, went as far to describe urban sociability as “the core of life in …

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