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  Designing Beyond the Virtual City

  Simmons Buntin | Tue, Mar 18th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: simmons buntin, architecture, website, facebook, urban design compendium, urban design, christopher alexander, city design, town planning, good city form, website design, kevin lynch, resources, pattern languge | 0

  This website design process got me thinking about the city design process, and what they’ve got in common.  Does the virtual translate to the concrete?  No matter how technology changes, the process used to design websites is fundamentally the same.  Is that also true for cities?

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  Global Transit: How does your city measure up?

  Hayley Richardson | Mon, Nov 5th, 2007 | Category: Reviews | Tags: hayley richardson, kevin lynch, mark ovendon, global transit, kuala lumpur, image of the city, transit maps of the world | 1

  Since 2007 has unofficially become the year of mass transit, with cities like Seattle, Austin and Beijing whispering of their plans for subway systems, its only fitting that Penguin would publish, Transit Maps of the World: the World’s First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth.

  This guide includes historic and up-to-date maps of over a hundred stations around the globe, accompanied with blurbs written by a rail-loving Brit named Mark Ovendon. It’s also sprinkled with pictures…

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