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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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Beauty Kills—A Self-Rebuttal: Or, Why Joel Kotkin isn’t Always Wrong
In my recent post, Universal Beauty and the Responsibility of Cities, I argued that beauty is an essential element of urbanism. Forget all of that for a moment; here’s the other side of the coin: beauty kills. It can turn cities into lifeless museums animated only by tourists, inhibiting creativity and innovation while exacerbating segregation and homogenization. Look at any interior design magazine spread; room upon room of artful still-life orchestration. These are rooms that pose, not rooms that are lived in. Look at fashion models, their faces inscrutable and eyes vacant. True, this is not the sort of beauty I was advocating, but an emphasis on beauty can quickly lead one astray if untempered. Beauty is essential, yes, but it can be as intoxicating as drugs, and potentially as destructive.
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Posted in Uncategorized, Rants, Response Pieces, What if?, Placemaking, Josh Grigsby, Culture, Livability, Sustainability
Tagged sprawl, vancouver, poverty, Copenhagen, Los Angeles, art, technology, Sustainability, Amsterdam, Mercer, Monocle, quality of life, Vienna, London, creativity, New York, universal beauty, responsible urbanism, segregation, homogenization, Joel Kotkin, New Geography, Livability, Economist Intelligence Unit, European cities, Zurich, Geneva, Helsinki, Munich, Toronto, Auckland, Perth, Melbourne, Aspen, Vail, Palm Beach, social dynamism, cultural diversity, Rene Descartes, inventory of the possible, ancient Rome, Islamic Baghdad, Houston, Shanghai, Mumbai, low birth rate, Switzerland, ancient Athens, Renaissance, Florence, compact cities, pollution, growth, urban tension, Forbes
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A Thousand Words: Microflat Concept, London
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Posted in A Thousand Words, Uncategorized
Tagged A Thousand Words, density, London, Microflat, reduced footprint
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