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For the latest information and up to date ideas and conversations check out the Cites, old and new, display a large collection of patterns, some dating back millennia and some very recent. Can anyone of these be used when laying out a new city district? Are the recent ones unquestionably contemporary and, therefore, most suitable or could old On the evidence that each and every one of these patterns has been applied in many a city or district, and that they have been in continuous use and still intact as part of certain cities’ fabric, we may reason that each is equally suitable for replication. In this vein, any historic urban pattern can also be a contemporary pattern. Yet we know intuitively and by inspection that this statement could not be true. First the emergence of different patterns speaks to “intent”, a purpose, a determination to satisfy a set of requirements so as to make living in a place comforting and gratifying. Second, the change from one pattern to the next, we generally perceive as evolution, an adaptation and not an accident. An adaptation is thought to be necessary when the needs to which the original pattern responded have changed. Differentiation and adaptation both raise the question of “contemporariness”. Each of these historic patterns could have been “contemporary” at the time We may never know the exact intent for the introduction of patterns that recede into the distant past. We may also not be able to decipher the exact causal chain between living patterns and urban patterns the way we do for many biological adaptations and their purpose. But we do know with unshakeable certainty that the 20th century brought momentous and rapid changes in the activities of production, provision, protection, transportation, communication and governance – the patterns of survival - the sum total of which constitutes the Transportation in urban settlements in the last two millennia In experiencing the impact of these changes first hand on the daily activity cycle, an inescapable question arises: WHAT IS A CONTEMPORARY