tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12253824507197109772024-08-28T19:07:03.712-05:00These posts reflect my perspective as an urban dweller as opposed to or in relation to the theories of urban design. They try to project the relationship between the Urban Designer and a normal human being.Renjithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16706180761584839386noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225382450719710977.post-81389421498653616642010-09-24T14:44:00.001-05:002010-09-24T16:42:55.715-05:00

One of the aisles in Sam's Club Have you ever been to one of these department stores where you feel like an insignificant being in the midst of tall shelves filled with products that you can purchase? If you step into Sam's Club, Lowe's, Reasor's, Target, The Home Depot or any such similar store, you'll know exactly what I am talking about. These are designed as large warehouses divided by

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Lady with a child stroller Have you ever run into a lady with an adorable and cute child in a stroller? Have you tried to smile and show playful gestures to the child to get its attention? I have had many such encounters, especially when I used to travel on the Oxford Stagecoaches which are designed to accommodate the needs of wheelchair users, mothers with strollers and the like. May I

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Curious George Imagine what it was like when you moved to a new place. The first impressions of a place is so vital in shaping your perspective about it. It's so natural for all human beings to be as alert as 'alert' can be when they are in a new place for the first time. They tend to observe and notice not only buildings, trees, cars, people, etc. but also the minute details such as the paving

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Louis Sullivan's Wain Wright Building "Form ever Follows Function" was a phrase coined by the architect Louis Sullivan in 1896 and Frank Lloyd Wright, his assistant, adopted and professed this phrase. It became one of the strong principles associated with architecture and industrial design that revolutionized architectural thinking in its modern age. This inspired many renowned architects like

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We recently moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. My husband, Sandeep's job brought us here to Tulsa, a region of the Oklahoma state known as 'Green Country'. Tulsa, the 46th largest city of the United States was known as the 'Oil capital of the world' for most of the 20th century and the success of the city at the time reflects in the Art Deco style architecture of the buildings in the downtown area. It is

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I've quite wondered about this while driving my Volkswagen on one of the roads in Memphis, TN. Imagine you are an alien on a spaceship, on a journey towards the planet Earth. Earth, the planet of life, the planet which has more than a million living species, the planet of the blue ocean waters and the green forests. The round globe against the blackness of the outer space would be an

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Suburbanization and the American dream, after World War II, introduced the Americans into the world of owning a house in the suburbs, the so-called 'best of both worlds' allowing seclusion from the chaos of a city with proximity to nature. It not only encouraged planning of urban landscapes in favour of the 'automobile' but also drew hard lines on the landscape dividing societies in

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