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Brad Pitt, Andres Duany, and Aesthetic Diversity: Why There’s Room for Everyone in the New N’awlins
The New Orleans that was swept away when the levees broke cannot be restored. A new New Orleans is rising—it cannot be otherwise. Isn’t it possible that in this new New Orleans there is room for Frank Gehry and Andres Duany? For the experimental and the traditional? For the future and the past? Can’t this new New Orleans be a city that retells the stories of its forebears while crafting new tales of its own? It has been a long time since New Orleans had anything new to add to the larger discussion of American urbanism. A long time since the national spotlight shone on it for reasons other than crime, poverty, catastrophe, or the musical achievements of the past.
History should never be forgotten, but neither should it be made into a golden calf. Cities need to breathe, they need to periodically remake themselves. As long as the people remaking New Orleans remain in service to the city’s most vulnerable residents, New Orleans wins. Architects win. Design wins. Creativity wins. Experimentation wins. A new vernacular arises alongside the old. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, human scale, Josh Grigsby, Livability, Neighbors, Placemaking, Response Pieces, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Tagged 2036 Seventh Street, 3105 Law Street, 3428 Dauphine Street, 409 Andry Street, aesthetic diversity, American urbanism, Andres Duany, Andrew Blum, architecture, Arts & Crafts, Brad Pitt, Brooklyn Bridge, Build Now, California Modern, Cape Cod, Chris Graythen, CNU, Colonial, community, Crystal Palace, Eiffel Tower, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, experimentation, Frank Gehry, Global Green, globalism, Hurricane Katrina, James Marston Fitch, Kieran Timberlake, Los Angeles, Make it Right, middle-out planning, Modern Green Design, N'awlins, neighborhood character, neighborhoods, New Orleans, New Urbanism, Ninth Ward, Pacific Palisades, porches, post-Katrina, Santa Monica, Scott Bernhard, Seaside, Spanish Villa, Steven Bingler, Sustainability, Sustasis Foundation, The Atlantic, Thom Mayne, Tom Darden, Tulane, ultramodern, URBANbuild, urbanism, vernacular architecture, Victorian, Wayne Curtis, William McDonough, William Monaghan
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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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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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