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Here's a game that can stimulate reflection on how to evolve the city and urban planning. It 's a bit like the game of the shape of the clouds: what they remember the cities of the world seen from above? With a little 'fantasy can be associated with the city forms of objects that show the different nature.

[Venice]

historical towns formed slowly over time, consistent with their territory, it is easy to combine organic forms, natural dynamics: everyone knows that Venice is a fish, but perhaps not everyone has noticed the similarity of Trapani with a boar, or Ghardaia (Algeria) with a dancer.

[Drills]

[Ghardaia]

The Renaissance town in search of the ideal city, he made many prototypes of the city was planned according to geometric designs and final: Palmanova (Friuli), a perfect pinwheel, it is a good example.

[Palmanova]

and modern urban planning? As you know the modern movement owes much to the industrial revolution and innovation technology, resulting in the industrialization and standardization of building components: why is the symbol of modern city, Brasilia, many see an airplane, emblematic object of the technological progress of the twentieth century. I personally I see another child object of standardized production, but the most commonly used: a corkscrew.

[Brazil]

The contemporary city is fringed instead, eat in area irrational and unsustainable: a typical landscape of urban sprawl as one of Houston (Texas) has the appearance of a virus that infects and multiplies. In fact, in the eyes of the Earth, humankind and its environmental damage should be like a disease, annoying and stubborn.

[Houston]

If the modernist city was an expression of society's industrial production, is an expression of contemporary consumer society: The cities that stand today before the city , brands to sell. The palm island in Dubai does not remember a palm tree, rather reminds one of the many palm trees that appear in corporate logos.

[palm island in Dubai]

We are hostages of the myth of the consumer so that even the plans of our cities are trademarks. And this brings us to the last city-location: Juba, the city designed in the shape of rhino-rhinoceros, which will soon be built in Sudan. An irony that has to worry about. If this is the trend, the game can not be done: the cities are not like most cities because the objects are objects.

[Juba]

[Wau]

and your city, what's it like?