1. HOW ARE CITIES CREATED? Intro to Designing Your City

2. PEOPLE MOVE TO BE NEAR WATER.  Having water nearby means: - health - wealth - food - jobs  Not having water means not having those things.

3. RIVERS AND LAKES:

4. To be realistic, put a river or lake in your city.

5. In most cities: Important places are up high, markets or government are in the middle.

6. Mendota Heights, our 1 st tall settlement. David A. Lanegran Ph.D. July 2010 Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education

7. Be sure to have a City Hall for government:

8. Also include parks. Why?

9. Example: Cannon Falls

10. The rivers were a “pull” factor for jobs.

11. Parks are a pull factor today.

12. Your map is the bird’s eye view of your city, a.k.a. “the grid.”  Florence, Italy

13. Jobs created by river pulled people to Minneapolis.

14. River pulled people to St. Paul too.

15. Flour mills on the river created Minneapolis.

16. Today: Warehouses are apartments.

17. For a while, waterfronts were dominated by railroads.

18. The 1900 version of O’Hare in Chicago.

19. Daniel Burnham Plan for Chicago, published 1909:

20. Grant Park in Chicago, 1893:

21. Grant Park now:

22. The Future - Eco Bridge will extend Grant Park into the lake

23. Palm Islands inspired Chicago?

24. New York then and now: 

25. New Hotel Construction Overlooking Mecca

26. Abraj-al-Bait Towers  Luxury Hotel and Residential Building  Tallest Hotel in the World  Towers over Mecca  Economic, Cultural or Political forces at work here?

27. Shanghai’s Next Tall Building

28. China’s Next Tall Building

29. Burj Khalifa  Tallest Building in world  Bird’s Eye View

30. Dubai 1990

31. Same street 2003 

32. Dubai today

33. Ski Dubai in the Mall

34. Squatter cities  Most city dwellers live in squatter settlements.

35. Much to be proud of and much needed investment to maintain

36. How might tall buildings help?  Hydroponic Skyscrapers

37. And alternative buildings

38. A tall building merges with its ecosystem.

39. Task 1: Make a map of your city