GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Radburn Design Housing, Satellite Town, Street Hierarchy
5 Dec 2013
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So far, looked at several concepts dealing with human behavior towards the built ( or urban) environments. These concepts are also used by urban designers to explore how design impacts humans and how humans impact the design of spaces. All of this follows from the notion that we can design urban spaces- neighborhoods or even compete cities to achieve certain societal goals. The earliest cities occurred first in mesopotamia, part of the fertile crescent and the area between the tigris and euphrates rivers in what is now iraq, and were associated with the sumerian culture. But there is considerable debate about whether the earliest of these cities were little more than large villages. Dating what is a city before 5000 years ago is fraught with problems. Credit for being the first cities usually goes to the sumerian locations of uruk, ur ,and eridu, all of which were at one point located on the banks of the euphrates river.
