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Back in Black
Do not mistake this as a reference to our dynamic, um flexible, unstable economy, but rather to the fact that I’m back in New York in my architecture uniform. Work, teaching, and blogging shall resume.
Given that Monday was the first day of fall, I hope that everyone enjoyed their summers. It was also my first […]
California Dreamin’
The last two weeks have been a scramble to finish a deadline at work and prepare the schedule, lecture, and assignment for my first class of the semester. Going from one extreme to the other, I now take off for a much needed vacation. If I permit myself to engage in the ridiculous neighborhood naming […]
Urban Diversion 3.0
Is Texas the only state with a city named Paris? Is Illinois the only with Springfield?
Ever wondered how many states have similar named cities? You might consider this an exercise in urbanism by association, or perhaps just a random idea for mapping.
In Identically Named Places Connected (USA), Neil Freeman creates a visualization for this very […]
Ignore Pruitt-Igoe, Experiment With Big Box Development
I had another “connecting the dots” moment the other night. After reading Austin Contrarian’s thoughts on big box development, I started thinking about the symbolic end to Modernism.
[Image: Cartoon courtesy of Empire Wire.]
How much has the failure of Modernism to address social housing affected experimentation in development?
Obama vs. McCain - Urban Policy
How is urban policy represented on the respective campaign websites of John McCain and Barack Obama? This was the simple question I asked myself while reading about Obama’s economic policies. I half expected to come out empty handed on both websites, and in actuality, half was the appropriate word.
[Image courtesy of ABC News.]
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