Archive for the 'urbanism' Category
Now we know the Mall owners are scared, really scared, of new competition (revised 15 November 2007)
Here’s an interesting and important legal decision that will have some very real urban design/architectural implications. It’s yet another example of small, local and very particularized developments eclipsing centralized, consolidated, and homogenized ones.
It’s also interesting from another point of view: what information we get from this lawsuit. Lawsuits are actually very [...]
The minimal Katrina cottages are appealing to many that weren’t the target demographic at all. Many are discovering that they don’t want a McMansion, or anything even close to it, and are very happy to have something that is small, well designed and not too expensive to heat, and capable of fitting on a [...]
Well, I am back from Poland, which I have been very lucky to be able to visit every summer but one since 1999. My first trip was in 1986, studying there, and between 1986 and 1999 I had visited probably 6 times. Poland has been dramatically transformed during that time, from a backwards economy [...]
I was reminded the other day of an interesting passage in Fritjof Capra’s book Hidden Connections:
Although mycoplasm are minimal cells in terms of their internal simplicity, they can only survive in a precise and rather complex chemical environment. As biologist Harold Morowitz points out, this means that that we need to distinguish between [...]
John Robb has an interesting post in which two astute points are made, and flowing from these, an important question is raised. The answer to his question depends on our thinking across disciplines, to see a very similar structure in a problem that was solved in Victorian London. A [...]
OR TYPES OF FAILURES OF PREDICTIVE FRAMEWORKS
A project that I have long wanted very much to do is to write a history of the Future, especially, a history of the Future as seen in popular culture. Certainly a society’s view of its future tells what it values, and what it fears. If the [...]
Well, we can learn much from Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, and, as noted several times here, there exists a whole set of connexions between Sustainability and War processes, especially in the way that they will both drive Urbanism/Urban Form in the next century or so. (When I say War here, I am referring to 5GW, [...]
Hugh Ferriss‘ renderings, at their best, are some of the most evocative examples of American art of the previous century. His renderings were at once broadly and lastingly influential (just look at the set design of Batman or Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow for proof of this) However, for all [...]
Interesting Science Friday show coming up. Great Book too, BTW.
One hundred fifty-some years ago, the London cholera epidemic changed how we fight infectious disease and gave birth to the field of epidemiology. Can the lessons learned from the epidemic help us with modern bioterrorism? Join Ira Flatow in this hour of Science Friday [...]
Interesting Science Friday show coming up. Great Book too, BTW.
One hundred fifty-some years ago, the London cholera epidemic changed how we fight infectious disease and gave birth to the field of epidemiology. Can the lessons learned from the epidemic help us with modern bioterrorism? Join Ira Flatow in this hour of Science Friday [...]
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