Harry Camba

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4y
week 14
New buildings will need to accommodate the older ones since they will not be allowed to block the existing building’s resources. #iiturbanism
week 14
The people in cities should start with a collective interdisciplinary mandatory community participation. Establishing new urban design decision-making organization with Principles, Processes, and Standards will accomplish success#iiturbanism
week 14
Energy and resources will become more and more scarce commodities so energy efficiency will become more prevalent. That means buildings will be retrofitted or newly constructed with solar panels, wind generators and water reclamation.#iiturbanism
week 13
San Francisco, CA - Another of the great 19th Century cities - while there are many areas around San Francisco, the hills are daunting if you are not in shape! not great for walking #iiturbanism
week 13
Chicago, built during the pre-automobile era, the Loop around the lake is great, so is the areas around the Field Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago #iiturbanism
week 13
New York - pretty much all of Manhattan, although tourists tend to like Midtown, South Street Sea Port, Grenwich Village and Times Square - Park Slope in Brooklyn, and Forest Hills in Queens can be good too #iiturbanism
week 9
mature system of cities, economic activity is more spread out. Standardized manufacturing production tends to be de-concentrated into smaller and medium-size metropolitan areas, whereas production in large metropolitan areas focuses on services, research and development, and non-standardized manufacturing.#iiturbanism
The rapid urbanization in many developing countries over the past half century seems to have been accompanied by excessively high levels of concentration of the urban population in very large cities. #iiturbanism
week 9
Cities provide residents with certain infrastructure and services. Such infrastructure needs to be planned and built with the look to increasing population and load on the system, that takes time. Population growth can easily outpace the speed at which existing infrastructures can be expanded, and it sometimes happens in areas of rapid urban growth.#iiturbanism
week 8
Old buildings are of their time, and often they are quite extraordinary. Some old buildings are extraordinary works of architecture that couldn’t be remade today. They can exist as a type of monument that speak to a specific time in our history, and represent a continuity with out past. Other buildings are by influential architects and are worth preserving for their aesthetic and historical value. #iiturbanism
week 8
Environmentally, it is more responsible - requiring less net expenditure of materials and labor - to restore an old building than to demolish it and replace it with something now.#iiturbanism
week 8
In general it is good to preserve what's worth preserving and replace what is in need of replacement. This is what has typically happened all over the world throughout history.#iiturbanism