Monthly Archives: September 2020

Edge City Concept

Business environments can exist either within the central business district or outside the city. An area becomes an edge city when there is a concentration of firms, entertainment and shopping centers in a previously known rural or residential area. An … Continue reading

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Nobody Wants To Waste Time

Orlando Espinosa Nobody wants to waste time, but if you don’t actively take control of your time and keep allowing others to waste your time, you will slowly lose time in small increments throughout the day. Take back control of … Continue reading

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Cities Need Trees to Survive

Trees improve the livability  and sustainability of our cities in many ways. For many years tree canopy in our urban areas has been decreasing. Large mature trees which reach the end of their lives are often replaced with smaller species. These replanted trees then struggle to … Continue reading

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“In the Future” Postcards as Popular Urbanism

…………This post focuses on a remarkable source for illustrating popular urbanism and urban imaginaries: European and American photomontage postcards from around 1900 to 1920 that visualize future cities. Cobbling together an online archive of over 400 future cities photomontages, I … Continue reading

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