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CALENDARS

Architecture Calendars
Architecture Calendars




BOOKS ABOUT CITIES & URBAN PLANNING

The City in History
The City
in History:
Its Origins, Transformations, & Prospects


Sticks & Stones
Sticks & Stones


The City Shaped
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History


Cities of Tomorrow
Cities of
Tomorrow


Preserving the World's Great Cities
Preserving the World's Great Cities


Understanding Architecture
Understanding Architecture


City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction




Teacher's Best - The Creative Process


Cities of the World Educational Posters & Prints “O...-”
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Contemporary and historic cities ~

Oaxaca
Odessa

Osaka
Oslo

Ottawa
Ouagadougou



Typical Street, Oaxaca, Mexico, , Photographic Print
Typical Street,
Oaxaca, Mexico,
Photographic Print

(17º5'0"N 96º45'0"W)

Oaxaca, located in southern Mexico, is a cultural and tourist attaction because of the native Zapotec and Mixtec archeological sites, and colonial era structures.

Notable people associated with Oaxaca include Benito Juarez and Porfirio Díaz.


Postcard Depicting the Potemkin Steps, Odessa, circa 1900, Giclee Print
Postcard Depicting
the Potemkin Steps,
Odessa, circa 1900,
Giclee Print

(46º28'0"N 30º44'0"E)

Odessa is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine.

The steps leading to the shore of the Black Sea was the site of a workers' uprising supported by the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin in 1905. The movie director Sergei Eisenstein's motion picture The Battleship Potemkin commemorated the uprising and includes a scene where hundreds are murdered on the great stone staircase, now popularly known as the “Potemkin Steps”, in one of the most famous scenes in motion picture history.

Notable people associated with Odessa include David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein.


District of Sennichimae, Osaka, Japan, Photographic Print
District of Sennichimae, Osaka, Japan,
Photographic Print

(34º41'38"N 135º30'8"E)

Osaka is the third largest city in Japan, after Tokyo and Yokohama.

Osaka is historically the commercial capital of Japan: beginning in the feudal Edo period it was the centre of trading for rice, creating the first modern future exchange market in the world.

Notable people associated with Osaka include Yasunari Kawabata.


Sunset Shadow Over Karl Johan Street, Oslo, Norway, Photographic Print
Karl Johan Street, Oslo, Norway,
Photographic Print

(59º56'58"N 10º45'23"E)

Oslo, known as Christiana in the late 1800s, is the capital and city with the largest population in Norway. It is considered the fastest growing city in Europe as well as being second only to Tokyo as expensive to live in.

Oslo celebrated its millennium in 2000.

Notable people associated with Oslo include Kirsten Flagstad, Sonja Henie, Henrik Ibsen, Edvard Munch, Arne Næss, Eva Sars Nansen.


Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Photographic Print
Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Photographic Print

(45º25'1.2"N 75º42'0"W)

Ottawa, the capital of Canada and the fourth largest city in the country (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver), was founded in 1826.

The Algonquin word ‘adawe’, meaning “to trade”, is the basis of the name Ottawa.

Notable people associated with Ottawa include Paul Anka, Margaret Atwood, Dan Aykroyd, Loren Green, Alanis Morissette, Matthew Perry.


Mossi Style Mosque, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Africa, Photographic Print
Mossi Style Mosque,
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Africa,
Photographic Print

(12º21'26"N 1º32'7"W)

Ouagadougou, the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso, was the site of one of the largest markets in West Africa. The market was burned in 2003, and remains closed.


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