December 2010
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The Cities We Want
“For many Americans, the answer to ‘What kind of cities do we want?’ seems to be not just dispersed, new, and warmer, but also smaller. In some cases, much smaller. In 2007, the fastest-appreciating residential real estate values in the nation were not in San Francisco, Boston, and New York City but in Corvallis, Ore. (population 53,000); Grand Junction, Colo. (population...
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Beyond City Limits
“Look at a satellite image of the Earth at night: It will reveal the shimmering lights of cities flickering below, but also an ominous pattern. Cities are spreading like a cancer on the planet’s body. Zoom in and you can see good cells and bad cells at war for control. In Caracas, gang murders and kidnappings are a fact of life, and al Qaeda terrorists hide in plain sight in Karachi. Film...
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First we need people, then spaces, then buildings
‘There’s been a renaissance in public spaces over the last 20 years worldwide - wonderful boulevards, parks, and squares. Whenever it’s done properly, we have seen people come by the thousands. If we go back a hundred years, there was enormous activity in the streets because people were forced to be there. They were forced to drag their merchandise to the street, forced to walk, forced to...
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The Seduction of Place
“I invite my readers to take the next step with me, and agree that the metaphoric faculty is essential to the way we occupy the world; metaphors work so well in language precisely because they are part of our innate conceptual equipment. Only metaphor can offer us the clues to negotiate with our physical environment. It is the business of architecture – and to some extent of the other arts...
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