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City of Angles
Description: Assignment #3<br /> City of Angles - New York Times<br /> <br /> Read the article, \"City of Angles.\" Click on the link above to access.<br /> <br /> Manhattanhenge as a phenomenon can be discussed as an alternate writing. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Choose one of the characters in the article, and put yourself in his or her place.<br /> <br /> Write a page or two, expanding on the comments made by that person. They can be factual, funny, outrageous, as long as you\'re speaking as that person.
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Lecture 10
Description: 1990 - 2010. Current select new NYC iconic structures.
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Lecture 11
Description: World Trade Center Design Competition, Entries vs Built Towers. Vietnam Memorial Competition in DC.
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Lecture 2 - Pre 1800
Description: 1609 - 1796. Manahatta, Geography, Inhabitants, Wildlife, Wall Street and the American Revolution.
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Lecture 3 - Post 1800
Description: 1803 - 1945. Overview highlighting expansion of Infrastructure, Trains and Subways, Growth of Mercantilism, Business and Rise of the City Skyline.
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Lecture 3a Birth of A Nation 1789-1820
Description: Revolution and its aftermath; “Eclecticism”; Building technology - pattern books<br /> The Federal Style – characteristics and examples of: Public, Commercial, and Residential Architecture<br />
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Lecture 4
Description: 1820 - 1865. Greek Revival Architecture.
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Lecture 4a
Description: 1865 - 1890s. Use of Cast Iron, Trusses, Wrought Iron and Steel. The Romanesque Revival Style,
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Lecture 7
Description: 1885 - 1915. Urbanism and the Search for Order.
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Lecture 8
Description: 1915 - 1940. Dichotomy: Tradition and the Avant Garde. Art Deco.
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Lecture 9
Description: 1940 - 1970. Modernism: Pure Function, Pure Form.
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Lectures 1 & 2
Description: 1600 - 1785. The Land and its Inhabitants. Overview of Dutch Settlement & hand off to British. Dutch Farmhouse Vernacular.<br />
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Lectures 5 & 6
Description: 1865 - 1885. Age of Enterprise, continued, Tenement Housing and changes to codes and zoning to improve public health.
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