Until the cities remain young despite the stress of life

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Until the cities remain young despite the stress of life
2018. 06. 06
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Until the cities remain young despite the stress of life

I cannot hide my surprise from the ability of the Saudi city to repeat itself in a monotonous and boring manner. There was a long dialogue on a pleasant Ramadan night with my architectural friend .. on the city and the people .. and on the charm that illuminates the depths of cities to remain young despite the stress of life Cities become weary when they begin to repeat themselves when they find themselves expanding on the horizon without a goal, or if they begin to fear a cloud laden with rain for fear of drowning, and when people shake off it on the last day of tests and before long and boring summer beats, and they despair when they lose their capacity to create Beautiful feelings: transient encounters and memories, tantalizing memory, joy, coincidence, the sad tremor of the traveler the moment you leave the city's airport, and most importantly of this and that: nostalgia for ancient places! .. Groen imagined designing a green environment full of shops. A closed place .. appears as if it is .. an island to communicate. A place to reach it, Americans must get off their cars. Groun saw that his design would be a magical architectural solution, which no one had ever preceded. It would be a solution to the environment, to trade, and to the societal problems that Grun saw. All this is being done by constructing one building. Groen presented his magic solution to America: the mall. Grun's full vision of the complex was to be more than just stores. He imagined it as a mixture of facilities, apartments, offices, health centers, kindergartens and libraries, and that it was that era in the fifties of the last century, and so are ... shelters. Groen drew theoretical diagrams of how malls appeared. He painted it a long time ago before building one complex. Until he came in 1952, he found someone wishing to build the first closed, air-conditioned commercial complex. This was in the city of Adina, Minnesota. The store opened in 1956, which is called: Southdale. If the complexes have a mother, then Southdale is the mother of the complexes. Gron took his copies everywhere. In fact, the complex was not a mixture of amenities as Grun imagined. People did not live there, nor kindergartens, nor post offices. However, the complex was full of shops of all kinds. It was also full of shoppers. From the outside, Southdale was boring, with nothing to admire, or what to look at. It is just like any commercial complex, a square building with monumental facades, huge doors, no windows, and no signs. So the taste, the temptation, and the amazing display took place inside the complex, not outside it. The compound was like the holy place of the Americans living in the countryside and suburbs, and the fact that the Americans liked to drive the car, so going to those compounds was a picnic. But this, with the passage of time, began to reduce the visit to large cities, and weaken the economy.

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