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How to make an attractive city.

How to make an attractive city.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy4QjmKzF1c

I've always held that a general conformity helps a city become more visually appealing as long as the conformity isn't too strict. I thought this was a great concept vid. What are your thoughts?
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How to make an attractive city.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy4QjmKzF1c

I've always held that a general conformity helps a city become more visually appealing as long as the conformity isn't too strict. I thought this was a great concept vid. What are your thoughts?
Interesting video. Still, I'm not sure an attractive city can be made. It just seems to happen.
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Interesting video. Still, I'm not sure an attractive city can be made. It just seems to happen.
Many many cities around the world were planned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planned_cities

Sure it won't be as direct of a stroke of influence as if you were playing Sim City but I do believe it's possible to set the playing field correctly to allow for a very beautiful city to grow.
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"How to make a city as uninventive as possible"

The new-urbanist dogma is just as restrictive as the modernist dogma they claim to go against.
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Many many cities around the world were planned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planned_cities

Sure it won't be as direct of a stroke of influence as if you were playing Sim City but I do believe it's possible to set the playing field correctly to allow for a very beautiful city to grow.
Brasilia! Google it and tell us what you think. Elements of most cities have been planned, but building a city from the ground up according to a predetermined plan results in boring cities.
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Brasilia is definately one of the worlds most horrificly boring and monotonous cities.
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Brasilia's a high quality and well designed city, full of greenery, parkland, reflective pools and iconic, groundbreaking Neimeyer buildings. I don't know how you can say that.
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