Urban Morphology

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Urban Morphology

• Three Colonial Cities

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Boston
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Philadelphia
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Plan Influences - New England

• Organic unplanned, develops over time in
  response to functional needs of community,
  influenced by topography
• Bastide European new towns egalitarian
  assignment of land orthogonal plan

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Plan Influences Mid-Atlantic

• Speculators Model grid-plan
• (Londons West End with square)
• London Rebuilt (City of London)

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Leicester Square
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Philadelphias Elfreths Alley
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Southern Economy

• Agriculturally based plantations
• Weak town system

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Southern Colonies -- Annapolis
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Southern Plan Influences

• English Renaissance in America
• (Georgian Style)
• Grand lay-out circles squares
• Town served social political functions

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State House
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Grand Residences
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Shiplap House
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City Docks
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Three Models in Colonial America

• Organic, functional Boston
• American Grid Land Speculators Model
• Philadelphia
• English Renaissance
• Annapolis