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  • Half as many people will not support half as many enterprises

    In a given geographical territory, half as many people will not support half as many such enterprises spaced at twice the distance. When distance inconvenience sets in, the small, the various and the personal wither away.

    Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
    • density
    • distance
    • geography
    • business
    • economics
  • A city of hills

    Many of the stations [on the Yamanote Line] have one entrance on the uphill side and another lower down, and the neighbourhoods around them have a totally different feel, depending on which exit you use to leave the station.

    The hilly areas in Tokyo are mostly made up of quiet, well-to-do residential districts, while the lower sections often have more of a populist feel, with shopping arcades and small urban factories. As a result, the atmosphere outside the entrances are dramatically different in character. Take the wrong exit, and you might find yourself lost in a completely different kind of neighbourhood than you were expecting. In Tokyo, elite and working-class cultures exist alongside one another and mix together. I think the fundamental cause of this is the complexity of the city's topography.

    ...Tokyo is a city of hills, with most of it lying on an alluvial plain between the Tama and Kanda rivers. It is via these hills that the upland, elite neighbourhoods are connected with the more working-class areas down below. The slopes are thus a key part of the co-existence of these two worlds, used by people to come and go between them. Kagurazaka is particularly notable in this respect.

    Kengo Kuma, My Life as an Architect in Tokyo
    • geography
  • A representational tension

    Do I need to know the precise polygonal geometries of Los Angeles and the University of Southern California to assert that the latter is within the former? No. My mind contains no such precise geometric model of points and lines, yet I know that USC is in Los Angeles. When humans reason with the real world, they focus on its objects, relations, and processes—rather than starting with geometry—because these are the keys to understanding and explaining the real world. Our GIS tools, however, usually do the opposite. Built from the geometry-up around the legacy logic of traditional cartography (geometries and layers), most GIS tools today are restricted by that legacy’s limited ability to model objects, relations, and processes. A representational tension thus exists in GIScience between being a geometric information science versus an ontological, relational, and processual information science.

    Geoff Boeing, The Right Tools for the Job
    • geography
    • networks
  • To become completely lost

    To become completely lost is perhaps a rather rare experience for most people in the modern city. We are supported by the presence of others and by special way-finding devices: maps, street numbers, route signs, bus placards. But let the mishap of disorientation once occur, and the sense of anxiety and even terror that accompanies it reveals to us how closely it is linked to our sense of balance and well-being. The very word "lost" in our language means much more than simple geographical uncertainty; it carries overtones of utter disaster.

    Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City
    1. ​​Disorientation​​
    • cities
    • place
    • geography
    • wayfinding
  • Roads to nowhere

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    Among real-estate developers, straight lines and right angles went out of fashion sometime in the middle of the twentieth century. If you look at a town or a residential neighborhood laid out since then, you are more likely to find sinuous, serpentine roads—whether or not the topography offers any excuse for such curves. Many of these roads go nowhere: they are loops that bring you back to where you started, or they are cul-de-sacs. Making it easy to find your way through the network of streets is obviously not a high priority. This is an interesting development in urban geography: having redesigned the city to accommodate the automobile, we now search for ways to discourage people from driving on the streets.

    Brian Hayes, Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape
    • urbanism
    • transportation
    • geography
    • cities
  • Hyperart: U.S. Rail

    The steepest grade on U.S. main-line track is at the small town of Saluda, on a Norfolk Southern route between Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Asheville, North Carolina. The grade goes on for three miles at a slope of 4 or 5 percent. Trains have not been running on the line since 2001, but the tracks are still maintained.

    Brian Hayes, Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape
    • thomassons
    • geography
    • transportation

    This rail line seems to fit the definition of a Thomasson, which requires both disuse and continued maintenance. Maybe one of the largest, most expensive Thomassons in existence.

  • Midwest sunset

    For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural Midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room. This is because the land is so flat that there is nothing to impede or gradualize the sun's appearance. It's just all of a sudden there.

    David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
    • light
    • geography
  • BLDGBLOG

    A Blog by Geoff Manaugh
    www.bldgblog.com
    1. ​​A World Where Things Only Almost Meet​​
    2. ​​Buttresses​​
    3. ​​The Gosling Effect​​
    4. ​​Auditory Hallucinations from Offworld Megafarms​​
    1. ​​125 Best Architecture Books​​
    • architecture
    • geography
    • nature
    • science

See also:
  1. cities
  2. transportation
  3. place
  4. wayfinding
  5. urbanism
  6. thomassons
  7. light
  8. architecture
  9. nature
  10. science
  11. density
  12. distance
  13. business
  14. economics
  15. networks
  1. Brian Hayes
  2. Kevin Lynch
  3. David Foster Wallace
  4. Geoff Manaugh
  5. Jane Jacobs
  6. Geoff Boeing
  7. Kengo Kuma