May 2011
8 posts
Postmodern architecture vis-à-vis urban design
Urban theorist Nan Ellin has some clear thoughts on the field of urban design, and explains why the field belongs to architects, rather than planners.
From chapter 3 of her book, Postmodern Urbanism:
Most of the trends adumbrated in this chapter [Urban Design Theory: The Anglo-American Axis] and in the previous one [Urban Design Theory on the European Continent] have been developed by...
Introduction to Urban Design: Final Pinup
After one semester of exposure to urban design theories and going through the process of designing a site plan, fellow graduate city and regional planning students from the Pratt Institute and I did our final pinup yesterday.
We’ve read about Le Corbusier’s Ville Radieuse, Frank Lloyd Wright Broadacre City, and Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City of To-Morrow.
But we’ve also...
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Councilman Al Vann: "What are hipsters?"
thebrooklynpolitics:
Ali Najmi attended a City Council oversight meeting on the 2010 Census today when the subject of conversation switched to efforts to count hipsters in Williamsburg. Apparently the counting campaign even went to hipster bars!
Anyway, Councilman Al Vann (D-Bed-Stuy) was quoted saying the above.
But to be fair, as the Daily News’s Josh Greenman tweeted, “How many hipsters...
