The question is,
what is the effect of this transit going to have on the design of the city?
For certain, it will, those areas around the stops are going to develop.
What would be interesting with this part of this example
Would be to see whether the transit in fact has a system that,
system design effect on the city of Venice completed.
Gary, you were going to take us to Africa if I remember right.
>> Yes, the final example is in Lusaka in Zambia.
And it's actually a very interesting portrayal of this city.
This rapidly growing city.
But a city which actually has, if you look closely enough some
quite terrific examples of ideas about city design.
So the central corridor of the city, Cairo Road or
an area going into the central corridor, center of the city,
is in fact the modernistic area.
And like so many modernist areas in rapidly growing cities, it's a corridor,
major roadways on either side, each block developed with one or two towers.
There are office spaces above retail space,
sometimes housing above retail space and they march into the center of the city.
But, if you look at the plans of it there's kind of a traditional city design,
what's called a traditional city design which in fact
looks like a colonial era overlay on the city, almost.
Some of it really looks like garden city ideas, but corridors,
squares along and green spaces within those corridors.
And then radial and block-like
areas adjacent to them which are developed.
As I said you could have probably argued that some of these areas if we look
carefully at them are actually garden city design.
But the example that's offered for garden city design here is in fact a golf club,
subdivision with the green park and golf lakes.
At the center of the residential area assuming one of the outlying
areas of the city.
It's been there long enough so that the trees have grown up.
It really is a garden city.
And must be in fact one of the most desirable areas of the city.
So what do we make of all these things?
A tremendous set of ideas, one of these things that's very interesting,
I'd love to have Johnathan reflect on this, is that you can find these examples
all over the world I think that is one of the great things about this course,
is that we're able to have a kind of worldwide conversation about city design.
>> And it is quite amazing that designs, which were originally the ideas
of a relatively small number of people, spread all across the world.
And although globalization is now an international fact of great importance,
when you look at the law of the Indies, you can see that the colonization process,
no matter, leaving aside what our feelings are about colonies, one way or
the other, that there was definitely a channel through which ideas went.
So that the traditional city, migrated originally, sometimes, by fiat by
requirement and then later by emulation, particularly emulation of Paris.