Looking @ Cities

Greetings and welcome to Looking@Cities. It’s my intent with this blog to share with you my knowledge on cities, towns,…

The Urban Genome: Fields

• Fields In 1979 Steven K. Peterson published the seminal article titled “URBAN DESIGN TACTICS.” In this article Peterson describes…

• City Gates or Points of Entrance City gates, in one form or another, can be found across the world…

“… The edge of a city is a philosophical region, where city and natural landscape overlap, existing without choice or…

In 2009 my book, The Genealogy of Cities, was published. The book displayed around 600 city plans in figure ground…

In the previous posting, The Urban Genome: The Rural Zone, I began a new series discussing what I call The Urban…

“Urban design is a synthetic, inventive mapping of physical conditions which establishes whole areas of the city. In other words,…

One of the primary tools for an urban designer is a physical model of the urban fabric you are investigating…

In 1997 Koetter/Kim & Associates published a monograph of their work. The drawings, sketches, and models shown in their book are…

In the early 1970’s Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter developed their ideas of a Collage City as an essay, which was expanded and…

Historically, the process of designing in perspective is commonly related to painting, but it’s important to note that the use…

In the 8th century, the O’Fogarty’s gave their name to the town of Durlas, which is today located in County…

My interest in cartography began when I was young, but the study of city plans (or maps) really developed while…

The Origins of the Arcade & the Various Types The origin of the arcade is most likely patterned after the…

Cities are fascinating places to study. What we see at face value is actually built typically over time. A number…