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A Study of the implications of urban growth in relation to traditional city

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dc.contributor.advisor Gunarathna, R
dc.contributor.author Gamage, GKU
dc.date.accessioned 2014-07-04T14:22:12Z
dc.date.available 2014-07-04T14:22:12Z
dc.date.issued 2014-07-04
dc.identifier.citation Gamage, G.K.U. (2001). A Study of the implications of urban growth in relation to traditional city [Master's theses, University of Moratuwa]. Institutional Repository University of Moratuwa. http://dl.lib.mrt.ac.lk/handle/123/10203
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.mrt.ac.lk/handle/123/10203
dc.description.abstract City is a collection of manraade structures organized for human habitation. The organized structure of the city resembles the sacredness by the people. Therefore, the expansion of the built environment also must have respected to this universal principle which we see lack in contemporary cities. From the beginning of evolution of cities their organizational patterns reflect the understanding of the order of nature ; city planning principles at the beginning were evolved with this knowledge (ex. Egyptian, Chinese, Indian, etc.) With the population growth, and industrialization they had drastic changes. Their expansions in size have become unattractive to live in. A city can be compared with the human organism. The growth of organic system is rhythmic; its development ultimately reaches a limit thus creating a 'form'. As Leon Krier states, 4 a city is a balanced, natural organism like a plant, a plant will die if it grows bigger. Likewise, if city stretches too much, it won't withstand. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject ARCHITECTURE-Thesis en_US
dc.subject TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING: DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject TOWNS: DEVELOPMENT
dc.title A Study of the implications of urban growth in relation to traditional city en_US
dc.type Thesis-Abstract en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.degree M.Sc. en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Architecture en_US
dc.date.accept 2001
dc.identifier.accno 76207 en_US


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