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Tag Archives: urbanism
The City of the Future?
We humans love to plot our existence on time lines. Make the world linear. Everything has a beginning, a middle, an end. The universe in vectors. But how often does reality comply? It seems to me that no geometric figure can accurately represent the dynamism of civilization. Sometimes a vector may well be appropriate. Other times, a triangle or a step pyramid. The closest model to my mind, however, is a helix, or rather multiple helices. Some are bent, some wrap around others, some are vertical, some aren’t. All, however, are roughly orbital. A new development (such as the automobile) creates a new ring, the course of action spurred on by that development plays out, and eventually things come back around to a new approximation of where they began.
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Posted in architecture, Culture, History, human scale, Josh Grigsby, Rants, technology, thinking, Uncategorized, urban design, urban planning, vernacular architecture, walkable, What if?
Tagged automobile, back to the future, bike, blade runner, borges, caesar, city, corbusier, Dubai, future, helix, kunstler, medieval, New Urbanism, pedestrian, plot, radiant city, segway, technology, urbanism, walk
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Transportation Engineers: Part of the Problem, Part of the Solution
Note from planologie—I saw this comment by Planetizen user ConcernedAboutWinnipeg at the end of Alex Krieger’s article, “Being Urban Minded: Three Current Debates Around Urban Design Practice,” and thought it worth singling out. It seems like in any profession a rift inevitably forms between the creatives and the technicians, and that this silo-ing is especially pernicious when it affects entire populations. I’ve spoken with several transportation engineers who echoed ConcernedAboutWinnipeg’s sentiments, namely that most of them work within the paradigm they were taught, that awareness of the old paradigm’s destructiveness is spreading rapidly, and that the younger crop of transpo engineers have “seen the light.”
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Posted in Auto Independence, Culture, Livability, transit, Transportation, Uncategorized, urban design, What if?
Tagged alex krieger, concernedaboutwinnipeg, creatives, institute of transportation engineers, neighborhood connectivity, parking generation, pedestrian accessibility, planetizen, silo, technicians, transportation engineers, trip generation, urban design, urbanism, walkability
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Interview: Peter Sigrist and Katia Savchuk, co-founders of polis
I’ve mentioned before that though I didn’t discover polis until after beginning planologie, polis is in many ways a working model for what I hope planologie will become. Sitting down (virtually – we chatted online via Google WAVE) with Pete and Katia, the cofounders of polis, seemed logical for the first planologie interview.
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Posted in Interview, Josh Grigsby, Polis, Uncategorized
Tagged adaptive reuse, Anthony M. Tung, Bill McKibben, blogging, Brendan Crain, Civic Nature, collaboration, community development, Cornell, dharavi, globalism, Google WAVE, Harvard, Hernando de Soto, housing, India, informal settlements, katia savchuk, Koliwada Urban Typhoon, McKinsey, megacities, Moscow, Mumbai, NGOs, peter sigrist, Polis, residential mobility, San Francisco, Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres, urban decision-making, urbanism, Westernization, Where
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The Fine Art of the City
I spent a while yesterday roaming through the stacks of Google Images’ digital library, and found some art inspired by cities that I thought I’d share. Some of it I love, some I don’t care for, but the thing that struck me most was the aesthetic diversity. It’s nice to see that art hasn’t succumbed to the creeping homogeneity of global monoculture.
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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
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