Enrichment
How to Make An Attractive City
24th May 2015
What makes a beautiful city? What is it about the cities that makes them most popular with tourists? In this video Alain de Botton offers his six-point manifesto on the need for making beauty a priority in urban architecture and design. The six main points of this article are:
- Order and Variety
- Visible Life
- Compact
- Orientation and Mystery
- Scale
- Local
Jim Riley
Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.
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