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More than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. Are all urban areas cities? That is a very good question. Let’s take a closer look! Explore NEXT.cc’s TOWN JOURNEY to see some of the oldest towns in the world. Some are no longer inhabited, while others continue to flourish. Cities started as villages attracting people looking for access to water, food, protection, and opportunities away from migratory lives or lives in rural farming areas. Early cities were agrarian in that they had the basic elements of water and food. The water and food and protection called people from the surrounding areas.
Activity 1 – City Life
Everything we do—if described, made clear, and made observable—is education: the ‘Show and Tell,’ the city itself…. It is a classroom without walls, an open university for people of all ages offering a boundless curriculum with unlimited expertise. If we can make our urban environment comprehensible and observable, we will have created classrooms with endless windows on the world. Richard Saul Wurman
Activity 2 – Write a Poem About Your City
Activity 3 – Make a Map of Your City
Activity 4 – City Logo
Activity 5 – City Structures
Activity 6 – World Class Cities
Activity 7 – The future of Your City
Review
Explore
- 100 Resilient Cities
- 15 Minute City CNU
- Atlas of ReUrbanization
- Barcelona SUperblocks city redefined
- California Walkable City Planned
- Calthorpe China Design Manual
- Carl Sandburg's Poem About Chicago
- Center for Planning Excellence Louisiana
- Cities United Nations
- City in a Garden Graphic Novel, Art of Science Learning
- City Streets (Drawn Online)
- Cityx Project
- David Brown The Available City
- DZH De Zwarte Hond Berlin, Rotterdam, Cologne
- Earth Overshoot Day Steps Cities Can Take to Offset Global Warming
- Ebeneezer Howard
- Gensler The future of the 20 minute City
- Global Platform for Sustainable Cities
- Henning Larson Henning Larsen is an architecture, landscape, urbanism design studio.
- How to Build A City From Scratch
- Interactive Nolli Map of ROME
- Italio Calvino Invisible Cities
- Jane Jacobs The Center for the Living City
- Jan Gehl
- Largest Cities Throughout History
- Manhattan's Welikia Project
- Michael Heizer's Nebraska Desert City
- Milwaukee Community Map
- National League of Cities
- OECD Better Life Index
- Open Cities UK
- Pictures of American Cities
- Project For Public Space
- Smart Code
- TED David MaCaulay Surprises of Rome
- TEDed Real Life Sunken Cities
- TEDed: Urbanization and the Evolution of Cities
- The Sand Pit
- The Urban Transect DPZ
- The Wacker Manual 1911
- The Young Urbanists Handbook
- Urban Engineers
- Urban Network Framework for Growth
- Urban Observatory
- Urban Observatory
- Urban Population Timeline
- Video City Development
- Video The Art of Building Cities
- World Database of Large Cities 1950-2050
Relate
- 2D Geometry
- Air Quality
- Bike Lanes
- Biomimicry
- Bridges
- Building Types
- Detail
- Electric Light
- Experience Design
- Facade Elements
- Farmers Markets
- Green Cities
- Grid
- Housing Styles
- Maps
- Mass Transit
- Modern Architecture
- Nano technology
- Organization
- Place Experience
- Place Exploration
- Playscapes
- Pocket Parks
- Public Space
- Recycling
- Rivers
- Site Analysis
- Site Programming
- Skyscrapers
- Soil
- Soundscapes
- Streets
- Sunlight
- Systems Thinking
- Tree Identification
- Urban Agriculture
- Urban Design
- Vernacular Architecture
- Walking
- Water Quality
- Watershed
- Wayfinding
- Wind Power
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