The City Section

CITY TYPES

- Organic city: irregular organisation from unplanned growth over time. Formed heavily through interaction between built form and natural features.

- Labyrinth: Associated with Islamic culture and sacred shared space. A protective form serving the ‘intimate needs of privacy’.

- 18th Century: Response to organic city. Seeks to bring order to chaotic cities of Europe. Systematic planning and capital formation and investment.

- Baroque: Uses rhetoric of order, balance and dignity, as well as wide avenues and monumental public spaces to express power of a centralised government.

- Grid city: Uniformity and extendibility provides a clear lattice to control unruly locale and be filled over time.

Newark - Organic and Labyrinth Hybrid