GEOG 261 Lecture Notes - Detroit River, Le Corbusier, Ford Model T
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Pic of new york idea of flow: ppl moving about, flow of info, physical flows of cars, the idea of flow also shapes the city in many ways. The idea that you can read the city it"s a text. Mobility is central to the urban landscape as well as to our undertanding of it. ** the idea of mobility is coming in exam ** In this course, mobility is a complex assemblage (comes from the french word something that is assembled and drives substanance from that assemble). It involved movements (bodies and things) in space, flows, and connections that interact at points and have effects on the urban landscape. Mobility is not just movement of ppl or things, there"s also the element of flow, of movement. Dynamic flows and interactions and how that flow shapes the urban landscape. It can be productive as well as deeply problematic.
