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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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Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Sociologist Ray Oldenburg dubbed them Third Places in his 1989 book, The Great Good Place. He wrote that Third Places (not work, not home) are “the heart of a community’s social vitality, the grassroots of democracy.” But in the U.S., he wrote, we’ve almost lost them, as people spend more time in cars, in shopping malls, or at home in front of a screen. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Livability, Placemaking, Shout Outs
Tagged Bill Bishop, Cheers, citiwire, coffeehouse, community, de Beauvoir, democracy, Facebook, Hemingway, information technology, Les Deux Magots, Mary Newsom, MySpace, Paris, Picasso, pub, Ray Oldenburg, Sartre, social media, social vitality, Sociology, The Big Sort, The Great Good Place, Third Places, Twitter, virtual
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Universal Beauty and the Responsibility of Cities
In chapter eight of Anthony M. Tung’s erudite and impressive Preserving the World’s Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis, there is a passage that stopped me in my proverbial tracks and hasn’t left my thoughts since. Tung is writing about Amsterdam at the dawn of the 20th century:
As parts of the inner city became slums and were threatened with clearance, and as picturesque canals were filled in to create new roads and better circulation, elements of the historic environment began to be eliminated. Growing numbers of citizens became alarmed and called for preservation of the historic center. In addition, a new ring of speculative housing began to surround the old metropolis. Numerous Amsterdammers began to ask that the expansion of the city meet a reasonable standard of beauty. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Josh Grigsby, Livability, Placemaking, Rants, Sustainability, Uncategorized, What if?
Tagged American cities, Amsterdam, Angkor Wat, Anthony Tung, Austin, Babylon, Baltimore, Beauty, Bicycle Diaries, Cambridge, Camillo Sitte, Chapel Hill, Chicago, cobblestone, Craftsman bungalows, David Byrne, Denver, farm houses, Frank Gehry, google maps, H.P. Berlage, historic preservation, Invisible Cities, Iroquois Confederacy, Italo Calvino, J.R.R. Tolkien, Key West cottages, Kyoto, Main Street, McMansions, medieval cities, modernism, modernization, Mulholland Drive, municipal, neighborhoods, New England fishing village, Pantheon, Paris, parking lots, Parthenon, Peter Jackson, Petra, Plan Zuid, portland, public way, pyramids at Giza, quality of life, Ray Kappe, Rivendell, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Santorini, Sarasota, Sausalito, screen shots, Seven Generation, Shire, shopping malls, slum clearance, sprawl, Stefan Sagmeister, stewardship, street grid, strip malls, Sustainability, Tibor Kalman, trailer parks, urbanism, Varanasi, Vienna, Wonder
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