Author Archives: Rashid Faridi

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About Rashid Faridi

I am Rashid Aziz Faridi ,Writer, Teacher and a Voracious Reader.

Future City by Syed Aiyazuddin

            It is so visionary to anticipate what the cities of the future will look like. According to me Future city may be defined as an imagined city that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect morphology and qualities for its … Continue reading

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 Howard Nelson’s Classification of Cities

Nelson through his classification removed the shortcomings of the earlier classifications by using a stated procedure that could be objectively checked by other workers. His paper ‘A Service Classification of American Cities’ was published in the journal Geography in 1955. … Continue reading

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Classification of Cities by Chauncy D. Harris

Chauncy D. Harris remedied the deficiencies of the former subjective and judgement-based classifications. In his paper ‘A Functional Classification of Cities in the United States (1943)’, he was able to identify quantitatively dominant function out of multifunctional  character of cities. He … Continue reading

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Future City of Wajeeha Nadeem

            Future city starts with a question – how can we make the world a better place? To answer it, we imagine, design, research and built cities of the future that showcase their solution to a citywide sustainability issue. It … Continue reading

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