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The early type of dwelling in Spanish Florida was the "board house", a small one-room cottage constructed of pit-sawn softwood boards, typically with a thatched roof. Coquina , a limestone conglomerate containing shells of small mollusks, was used as a building stone in St. Augustine as early as 1598 and has been used as recently as the 1930s ...
At this number, settlements are too small or scattered to be considered "urban", and services within these settlements (if any) are generally limited to bare essentials: e.g., church, grocery store, post office, etc. Throughout most of human history, very few settlements could support a population greater than 150 people.
The compact city or city of short distances is an urban planning and urban design concept, which promotes relatively high residential density with mixed land uses. It is based on an efficient public transport system and has an urban layout which – according to its advocates – encourages walking and cycling, low energy consumption and ...
The podestà exercised the supreme power in the city, both in peace and war, and in foreign and domestic matters alike; but their term of office lasted only about a year. [ 6 ] In order to avoid the intense strife so common in Italian civic life, it soon became the custom to hire a stranger to fill this position.
Zamość in the 17th century. The Renaissance concept of an Ideal town developed by Italian polymath Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), author of ten books of treatises on modern architecture titled De re aedificatoria written about 1450 with additions made until the time of his death in 1472, concerned the planning and building of an entire town as opposed to individual edifices for private ...
Office in a Small City is a 1953 oil painting by the American realist painter Edward Hopper. It is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. [1] The painting depicts a man sitting in a corner office surveying the cityscape outdoors. The painting depicts loneliness and beauty in a uniquely stark yet pleasing fashion, a common theme ...
When Sean “Puffy” Combs joined the A&R department at Uptown Records in 1990, his first assistant, Pam Lewis-Rudden, looked at her 20-year-old boss and considered her own career.
Ecumenopolis (from Ancient Greek οἰκουμένη (oikouménē) 'the inhabited world' and πόλις 'city'; lit. ' world city '; pl. ecumenopolises or ecumenopoleis) is the hypothetical concept of a planetwide city.