Today I’m feeling a little guilty* about the fact that I named this blog after Le Corbusier and have yet to write about him (this smidgen in my very first post hardly counts). I’ve been trying to compose an epic that actually ties together modern architecture and radical politics, which is my (heretofore not [...]
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From Radiant City: A Documentary About Suburban Sprawl: “people who live in suburbia know backwards and forwards the critique of suburbia, yet they still live live in the suburbs” Exactly. People are aware of the problems with the suburb housing choice, but make the choice anyway because it is a rational decision given their options. [...] This clever tool brings some quantification to walkability competition, and there’s some good comments at City Comforts about the application and how different cities score. Above are the stats for my childhood home in Bakersfield, CA. Unsurprisingly, given its slightly-better-than-suburb-but-not-much status, its performance is mediocre. If the metric took into account design, B-town would [...] These landscape design are beautiful, mysterious, intriguing…which is to say, perfect. I really want to go there. Green space is always a good idea, as few cities (none that immediately come to mind) have too many parks. But I want more like this…weird. Grassy hills with trees and playgrounds are great, [...]
Here is a nice summary of all the mixed use/affordable housing projects that have or will be built around the subway stop at Hollywood & Western. This is exciting to me, because I used to live in this area (and likely will again soon) and would love for it to [...] This video at Here in Van Nuys documents the love affair between Reyner Banham and LA (a relationship which should join Woody Allen and New York in the Pantheon of man-loves-town couplings). My favorite part (aside from Banham’s beard, which is intimidating) is when he goes to the Watts Towers (Of course! It’s [...] These new development plans for Abu Dhabi seem like a case study in bad urban planning. To quote what irks Archidose about the projects: :: The assertion of authorship at the scale of the city, |
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