New Urban Connectivity, Culture
Early morning in Fez, Medina shows the importance of a New Urban Connectivity.
One of the densest places in existence, Fez has for a thousand years connected its people through a compact built form, a dense network of streets, its religious institutions and a multitude of market places and public events.
Suddenly, in the last 50 years, local news and personal contact are superseded by national and international news and by electronic, impersonal communication. Connectivity has shifted from physical space to wired or wireless networks. Previously unknowable people or places or unimaginable things appear daily on a screen. Global culture becomes local culture and with it comes New Urban Connectivity.
New Urban Connectivity, Culture
Early morning in Fez, Medina shows the importance of a New Urban Connectivity.
One of the densest places in existence, Fez has for a thousand years connected its people through a compact built form, a dense network of streets, its religious institutions and a multitude of market places and public events.
Suddenly, in the last 50 years, local news and personal contact are superseded by national and international news and by electronic, impersonal communication. Connectivity has shifted from physical space to wired or wireless networks. Previously unknowable people or places or unimaginable things appear daily on a screen. Global culture becomes local culture and with it comes New Urban Connectivity.