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The World’s Most Beautiful Cities
Since beauty is subjective, we surveyed city specialists from a range of fields, including urban planning, architecture and sustainable development. Respondents include Reynolds and Michael Kaufman, an architect at Chicago-based architectural firm Goettsch Partners, as well as Raymond Levitt, director of the construction program in civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, Tony McGuirk, an urban designer, architect and chairman of BDP in London, J. Hugh O’Donnell of urban engineering firm MMM International, and Ken Drucker, New York design director of architectural firm HOK.
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Posted in Culture
Tagged Amanda Reynolds, architecture, Australia, BDP, boulevards, Cambridge, Cambridge University, Canada, Cape Town, Centre Pompidou, cities of light, cityscape, cultural diversity, downtown, ecological footprint, Eiffel Tower, England, Florence, Forbes, France, Goettsch Partners, Haussman, height restrictions, HOK, Hugh O'Donnell, Ian Cumming, Institute du Monde Arab, Italy, Ken Drucker, King's College Chapel, Kirstenbosch botanical garden, London, Michael Kaufman, MMM International, most beautiful cities, natural beauty, New York City, open air, Pacific Ocean, Paris, Raymond Levitt, River Cam, Sir Francis Drake, South Africa, Stanford University, Stanley Park, street life, Sydney, Table Mountain, Tim Kiladze, Tokyo, Tony McGuirk, urban design, Urban Design Group, urban planning, vancouver, Venice
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Seattle, Vancouver, and Portland by Rail, Bus, Streetcar, and Foot: Part One
I grew up during the grunge era, with Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder for role models, and the notion that a city could simultaneously spawn and embrace musical icons of social and political dissidence and the bourgeois haughtiness of, say, Frasier Crane, always fascinated me. Seattle was the only major coastal city in the U.S. I hadn’t yet spent time in; I was ready to fall in love. Continue reading
Posted in Dispatches, Josh Grigsby, Rants, Response Pieces, transit, Transportation, What if?
Tagged ballard, beantown, belltown, boeing, bookstore, boston, bus, capitol hill, central city, coffee, counterculture, dot com boom, downtown, drugs, eddie vedder, elevated freeway, frasier crane, fremont, instability, international district, king street station, kurt cobain, light rail, literate, local music, microsoft, pacific northwest, perception, pike place, pioneer square, portland, progressive, public transportation, queen anne, seattle, seattle art museum, sinking ship, sprawl, streetcar, tech, train, transit, transit tunnel, university district, urban decay, urban fabric, vancouver, walkable, walking, wallingford, waterfront, youth culture
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