Obtaining a sense of the wider city
"‘To truly exist’, Rice University architect Professor Lars Lerup writes, ‘every city needs its perspective. Its point of view. Its eyes.’ And yet the dominant experience at the edges of many sprawling urban areas – beyond the clusters of rapidly rising skyscrapers and elite housing towers – is one of apparently endless horizontality. In such landscapes obtaining a sense of the wider city becomes all but impossible."
I couldn't understand the emphasized phrase, can someone help me? Thanks in advance.
The source: Stephen Graham's Vertical
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hat papaya 780 I couldn't understand the emphasized phrase Me neither. He needs to explain what the "wider city" is and what it is to obtain a sense of it.
- hat papaya 780 I couldn't understand the emphasized phrase Me neither.
- He needs to explain what the "wider city" is and what it is to obtain a sense of it.
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hat papaya 780I couldn't understand the emphasized phrase
Me neither. He needs to explain what the "wider city" is and what it is to obtain a sense of it.
0hat papaya 780In such landscapes obtaining a sense of the wider city becomes all but impossible."
When all the buildings are of fairly uniform height on a horizontal plane — such as you find in the suburbs of cities, it's practically impossible to get a view of the whole city such as you can if you stand on the roof of a skyscraper in the center of the city
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