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    The document analyzes cities using the metaphor of a chessboard with white and black squares representing two cities. As an architecture student, the author sees the chessboard as representing different city spaces like squares and markets. They view the white and black squares as two separate entities within the universe, similar to other dualities. To understand the white city, one must study its patterns and components, just as to be successful in chess requires knowing the roles and strategies of the different pieces. Ultimately, the document argues that cities grow healthily when they establish clear rules and governance, represented by how chess is played according to set rules.

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    The document analyzes cities using the metaphor of a chessboard with white and black squares representing two cities. As an architecture student, the author sees the chessboard as representing different city spaces like squares and markets. They view the white and black squares as two separate entities within the universe, similar to other dualities. To understand the white city, one must study its patterns and components, just as to be successful in chess requires knowing the roles and strategies of the different pieces. Ultimately, the document argues that cities grow healthily when they establish clear rules and governance, represented by how chess is played according to set rules.

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    Invisible Cities: by Italo Calvino Ch:8

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    Ahtisham Ahmad
    The document analyzes cities using the metaphor of a chessboard with white and black squares representing two cities. As an architecture student, the author sees the chessboard as representing different city spaces like squares and markets. They view the white and black squares as two separate entities within the universe, similar to other dualities. To understand the white city, one must study its patterns and components, just as to be successful in chess requires knowing the roles and strategies of the different pieces. Ultimately, the document argues that cities grow healthily when they establish clear rules and governance, represented by how chess is played according to set rules.

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    INVISIBLE CITIES

    By ITALO CALVINO Ch :8

    DESCRIPTION OF ANALYSIS
    AHTASHAMAHMAD
    Arch2k14-18
    CHESS, normally considered to be the game of leaders and rulers, rich people use to play
    like their status values.

    But as an architecture student if i use to play Chess i will consider the white and black
    square boxes as a city region, it can be a city square, a market place, a play ground but now
    the question is why i will categorize these spaces from only black and white blocks.

    It is what i think and perceive that there are two pieces of everything which exist in this
    universe not world, just like left hand-right hand, life and death, heaven-hell, good deeds-
    sins ,sky-earth, fertile-barren so..

    One is white and other is black if i consider black is one city and white is another city but
    these two cities have further colours in it but to know what are they colours i used to study
    that white colour and how will study that matters a lot .

    Every team is consider to be a team when it have the soldiers, players, fighters just like
    chess there are two players and every player has 16 soldiers and fighters they are

    King

    Queen

    Rooks

    Bishops

    Knights

    Pawn

    So to get success to defeat other cities and countries i should have knowledge of other city
    patterns and heir soldiers.

    And another perspective of understanding is, city is like a chess game it can be followed well
    and run if it chooses and follow the rules just like a king and queen the governance then the
    ministers, then the lawyers.

    CONCLUSION:

    Basically the conclusion is if city grow under some privilege it grows widely and wisely under
    authenticity of rules and regulation.

    So walled city seems to be the white and black patches have some positive emotions in the
    form of social interaction and have some negative feelings in the form of extravagant
    population and their behaviour with spaces in the form of dark, dullness in streets.

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