Photo of an area using google earth maps.
W.J.T Mitchell - Landscape is a natural scene meditated by culture. Represented and presented space.
The Landscape is not merely the world we see. The Landscape is a huge theatre, a perfect symmetrical form - a controlled space.
Space becomes used in different ways, and mostly a juxtoposition between buildings. Corporate buildings overshadow the real spaces. This was apparent in Turkey when I went to visit in August 2009 (few posts down), huge commercial turk bankasi (banks) wedged between appartment blocks and abandoned houses from the Ottoman period (See photo below).
Walking is the best way to exploit a city, it's built in layers and is constructed to fit social classes.
Readings:
John Stow - A Survey od London.
Hurlo Thrumbo (1732) - The merry thought or the glass window and bog house miscellary.
Dan Cruikshank - Building blocks.
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