New City Planning
Observation
The article defines cities as amalgams consisting of individuals and buildings. This illustrates the existence of inhabited settings overseeing the daily rituals and social implications. The City as Artifact represents an architectural historian perspective in the examination and improved understanding of the urban designers, general public, universal designs, and architectural designs in relation to the development of the city. The article focuses on the demonstration of the urban concepts through illustration of the forms and processes. In the achievement of the goals and objectives of the article, the author elaborates, through extensive discussion, the patterns, elements, and perspectives of the urban forms from the historical point of view. According to the article, it is essential for the urban design to consider the pay lip services to the humanity or human behavior just like in the context of all other designs.
This ensures that the author focuses on the social implications and influences of the urban forms and processes in illustrating the urban designs from the historical perspective. This is through examination of relevant questions such as the encouragement extent of the public places in relation to the endangering of the social interactions. The author seeks to answer how and why the cities took the processes and forms in the achievement of their designs. In understanding these concepts, the author decides to incorporate and apply the history of the cities in illustrating the forms and processes.
From the view of the author, the city remains neutral in the absence of the implications of the cultural aspects or intent. This indicates that it is useless to discuss or note the similarities between the forms and processes in relation to the designs and developments within the context of urbanization. In the examination of the process in the designing of the urban centers, the author adopts and implements a phrase in the demonstration of two senses to the topic of research. One of the senses in the context of the forms of the aspect of urbanization relates to the individuals, institutions, and forces contributing towards the development of the forms in urban centers.
This focuses on addressing the city designers, procedures involved, and the legality behind the development of the cities in relation to the achievement of the goals and objectives of the social implications. This is because the legality and economic relations in the development of the cities are critical debatable topics and research questions facilitating the understanding of the forms and process of the urban designs. The concept incorporates the ownership of the land and application of the exercise of the eminent domain or compulsory procurement as the power of the government in the acquisition of private property for communal good.
The application of the concept of the urban process by the author indicates physical change in relation to duration. The author notes that the city, despite its reflection of perfection, is never complete or at rest because of the continuous processes with reference to development and designs. Several factors contribute to the alteration of the status of the city on a daily, monthly, or annual basis thus never complete or at rest. The article also focuses on the illustration of the design, forms, and processes of the city through structural methods. Some of the structural methods in the demonstration of the forms and process of the cities include organic model, practical model, and cosmic model.
