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Category Archives: Discovering Urbanism
from Discovering Urbanism: Dreaming About Magic Highways
I’ve watched the Futurama video (part 1and part 2), made for the 1939 World’s Fair by GM, but the Magic Highway is surely the reductio ad absurdum of American motoring idealism. It descends one more notch into self-parody every minute it goes on, but it’s obviously dead serious and coincides closely with the start of our nation’s real era of highway-building. Continue reading
from Discovering Urbanism: Why Children Like Small Things
Presuming that cities are meant to be used by people, it stands to reason that their elements ought to be scaled to human comfort, movement, and legibility.
Rather than attempt to describe what architects define as human scale (or at least how I understand it), it may be quicker to pull out two photos I took in Albany, New York. These two places are a short walk from each other. Continue reading
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from Discovering Urbanism: What will a recovery look like?
The Urban Land Institute and PriceWaterHouseCoopers has released their 2010 real estate forecast, a market analysis considered by many to be the most reputable in the industry. The first line gives a good impression of the tone of the report: “More … Continue reading
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from DISCOVERING URBANISM: Getting to the bottom of Velib vandalism
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