"It would mark a new stage of evolution for a city that has always been in the shadow of New York, one that was better known for its railyards than its major corporate players," Mr Hughes said.
What Hadid saw was that, in echoing the shed, it was possible to arrive at a perfect metaphor for the evolution of an old industrial city like Glasgow.
The new corporate face of Las Vegas, with its theme park casinos geared toward families, they imply, does not signify the demise of mob power there, but merely conceals another stage in the evolution of the city, "increasingly a playground and laundering center for foreign organized crime".
With an evolution of the city based on "business as usual" trends, urban climate modeling enables to evaluate both UHI and heat stress under heat-wave conditions in 2100.
Thus began the evolution of this city's distinctive pixação: a style of urban writing that has inspired numerous pixadores to come up with their own variations on this type of calligraphy – according to one estimate, there are more than 5,000 active pixadores in São Paulo alone.
This new understanding can shed light on the impact of new urban projects on the evolution of the polycentric configuration of a city and the dense structure of its centers and it provides an initial approach to modeling flows in an urban system.
