paris on the anacostia
A New Urbanist (edit: see comments for update) proposal to channelize the Anacostia and extend a modified version of the L’Enfant Plan to its newly narrowed banks, summarized here, is attracting a bit...
View Articlethe atlantic on new orleans
Wayne Curtis in The Atlantic on architecture and the reconstruction of New Orleans: Four years after Katrina, the rebuilding of New Orleans is not proceeding the way anyone envisioned, nor with the...
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ordinance sculptors
[Manhattan skyscraper zoning ordinances, given visual form by Hugh Ferriss; image from Kosmograd's flickr account] 1 The tricky thing with Duany is sorting out what is a genuine attempt to improve...
View Articleteenagers and young people, in the city like locusts
With the publication of their latest issue, The Atlantic Monthly launched a month-long sub-site that they’re calling “The Future of the City”, which interests us for obvious reasons. In particular,...
View Articleof jane jacobs and ipods
An excellent post at Kosmograd, “The Ballet of iPod City”, ably connects two items that mammoth has recently written about, the iPod (and iPhone) factory-city in Shenzhen and Benjamin Schwarz’s...
View Articlespillway on jacobs
Will Wiles writes about the veneration of Jane Jacobs by New Urbanists, delving into his own history of reading Jacobs and coming back out with a series of well-made points, from the realization that...
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fracture-prone
[An image from Mark Luthringer's "Ridgemont Typologies"] In an excerpt on Slate from his latest book (Makeshift Metropolis), Witold Rybczynski asks the question: what kind of cities do we want?...
View Articleterritories of urbanism
On Urban Omnibus, Genevieve Sherman recaps last Saturday’s afternoon panel from Harvard GSD’s 50th anniversary party for their urban planning program. The panel that Sherman recaps is of particular...
View Articlea pre-modern critique of the new urbanism
A minor point, but this is kind of fascinating — a critique of New Urbanism which, rather than going the common route of charging New Urbanism with nostalgic pre-modernism, argues that New Urbanism is...
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