Social unit_Hamlet

Classification based on population size and, sometimes, period of occupancy; social unit: family

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Social Unit_Village
Social unit: community; classification based on population size and density

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 Strategic Constraint_Jaisalmer
Organically planned city; predominantly a trade settlement with great precautions for defence

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Strategic Constraint_Shibam, Yemen
Famous for the oldest skyscrapers in the world. Mud-brick high rise buildings 5-11 stories tall were built to protect residents from Bedouin
attacks.

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Lavasa, Pune_Technological constraint
Private planned city in resemblance to the Italian town of Portofino primary function: tourism, resort-based

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Bukit Duri Slum_Technological Constraint
Located by Jakarta’s most polluted river – the Cilliwung – the area was a s an important strategic point for trade in the precolonial and colonial
periods and was instrumental in the founding of the port city of Jakarta, but has been lost from reorganization of the watercourse of the rivers
around the area into canals.
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Sun City, Arizona_Technological Constraint
Example of a retirement community, based on a car-centric mode of development

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Governance_Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon
Possible religious city of the Anasazi, abandoned due to the loss of natural resources

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 Mode of Production_Carthage
Ancient trading Phoenician colony dominating
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 Mode of Production_Hashima, Japan
Abandoned island, famed for surrounding sea wall. Gruesome reminder of forced labour and the consequences of rapid industrialization

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 Governance_Jaipur
Royal kingdom of the Rajputs, planned according o Kautilya’s Arthashastra; Resettlement from Amer due to water scarscity

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Governance_King Khalid Military City
Example of a retirement community, based on a car-centric mode of development

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Governance_Welthauptstadt Germania
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The Plan of Versailles_Governance
A reflection of the dominant autocratic control exercised by the royals of France. A symbol of the system of absolute
monarchy.
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Lutyen’s Delhi_Governance
An example of colonial planning centric to British interests and a stark contrast from traditional Delhi and Shahjahanabad

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 Governance_Bamiyan Valley
Ancient religious settlement for Buddhist monks in Afghanistan; present status:non-existent

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The Fertile Crescent
Also known as the cradle of civilization, it is a crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid
and semi-arid Western Asia, the Nile Valley and Nile Delta

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Temenos

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Cyclopean fortification
Megaron structure
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Apsidal Houses
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Miletus

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Olynthos
_archaeological plan

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A grid having one main axis

disposed along a prominent
landscape feature was
sometimes needed. The
available land was comprised in
a strip between the sea and the
mountains: thus, one of the main
axes had to be parallel to the
average direction of the coast,
otherwise an exceeding number
of incomplete lots would have
come out.

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Timgad
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Palmanova, Spain
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Utopian City _Sir Thomas More, Alberti and Filarete
Theme: Equality
Concentric circles with peaks and radiating streets
Always geometric in shape, and surrounded by a wall
Sforzinda: Defensible Utopia
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