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• Mr. Manners Goes To MOMA

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 124
  I THOUGHT THIS OLD REVIEW for Inland Architect had been lost forever, but a friend recently sent it to me:   Download the PDF
  11 hours ago

• What I Learned at the International Builders Show in Las Vegas

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 124
  From Pete Miller, President of Restore Media: Auto-dependent markets like Los Angeles and Denver have now seen the light about light rail. Each is raising the money to build it. Public transportation will help these sprawling cities back-fill to the downtown, blending new development with old. Production home ...
  1 day ago

• The New Spatialism: A Talk From Reboot

  
  /Message — Authority: 585
  The folks at Reboot have (finally) gotten around to uploading the videos from the 2009 conference. Heres my talk on New Spatialism: A More Humane Social Space On The Web. - via Reboot More of our social interaction in moving from the primitive but relatively open and egalitarian world of the blogosphere onto a ...
  5 days ago

• Seek First God’s Justice

  
  The Urban Loft — Authority: 416
  I’m no Greek scholar … I won’t even argue or debate that one. But somewhere along the way I came across a variant in the translation of Matthew 6:33. The way we normally read it is, “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” That’s pretty easy ...
  1 week ago

• Cities that Walk the Walk

  
  Deadline Newsroom — Authority: 124
  Youve got news...news that really hits home!When the organization CEOs for Cities analyzed ZipRealty data from 94,000 real estate transactions in 15 major markets, it found that in 13 of the 15 markets, higher levels of "walkability" boosted home values by $4,000 to $34,000 compared with homes with just average levels ...
  1 week ago

• Haitian Housing Posthaste - Update

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 124
  UPDATE: Duany has been in Haiti with General Wesley Clark and others, scouting sites for emergency camps. ANDRÉS DUANY and Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. have designed some emergency housing for Haiti. Pictures here . Miami Herald story here .
  1 week ago

• The Reconstruction of Haiti

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 124
  Some good suggestions from Stefanos Polyzoides , a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism : 1 Tent settlements and temporary service installations, immediately , 2 Ruble clearance, New urban plans, Mass training in construction, next, 3 Infrastructure construction, roads, water, sewer systems, asa ...
  1 week ago

• On place, moving, living incarnationally

  
  The Aesthetic Elevator — Authority: 115
  It’s been just over six months since we moved back to Nebraska from the little town of Siloam Springs, Arkansas and You just don’t know how connected you are to a place until you leave it. When we moved to Siloam Springs I didn’t expect to become attached to such a small community, in Arkansas , nestled ...
  1 week ago

• Live from Ugly Paris (The latest on Sarkos Starchitecture Parisienne)

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 124
  HERE IS AN EMAIL I WROTE to Ray Gindroz after a report from Ray was distributed on the TradArch list . Rays email is reprinted a few paragraphs down. Dear Ray, Your testimony sounded great. One hundred years ago, the French National Assembly debated the same issues. According to information I found in Anthony ...
  1 week ago

• Arriving at Livable Streets in L.A.

  
  Your Daily Thread — Authority: 423
  The folks at the Livable Streets   initiative are “taking back our cities, one street at a time.” They’ve set up a network of Streetsblogs in five major cities, and Los Angeles is one of them. So what makes a street livable? It depends on who or what you’re talking about wanting to make feel at ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Insecure Critic | Why I Love Streets

  
  Downtown Phoenix Journal — Authority: 470
  I recently figured out why I think living in neighborhoods with real streets is so important. Before I get started, I want to disclaim that I am not an urban planner, New Urbanism expert, population density wonk or really even that good at reading a map. I’m not some nut job who wants to turn every navigable roadway ...
  2 weeks ago

• Visual Search, Augmented Reality and a Social Commons for the Physical World Platform: Interview with Anselm Hook

  
  UgoTrade — Authority: 459
  Visual search is heating up, and with it a key stage of turning the physical world into a platform is underway as images become hyperlinks to the world in applications like Google Goggles , Point and Find , and SnapTell – see this post by Katie Boehret .  And while there may be no truly game changing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Steve Semes - The Future of the Past

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 124
  UPDATE: Semes has a new monthly column here: http://traditional-building.com/Steve_Semes/ The general public has never forgotten that the purpose of architecture and planning is to design beautiful buildings and places that offer joy in utility, or that the purpose of historic preservation is to preserve ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Very Good Book

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 124
  Wrestling With Moses is an excellent book. Much has been written about Moses and mores been written about Jacobs - but usually in different places. And Anthony Flint is a strong writer who untangles many threads well while explaining everything clearly. The American Society of Landscape Architects interviewed him ...
  3 weeks ago

• Slide show: street network design pre-1950 vs. post-1950

  
  Sprawled Out: The Search for Community in the American Suburb — Authority: 420
  Though unaccompanied by narration, clicking through these 50 slides from the Congress of the New Urbanism will give you a good general overview of street connectivity issues and how we arrived at our current sad state of affairs. Norman Garrick compares street network design from pre-1950 and post-1950, factors ...
  3 weeks ago

• Preliminary Activities for the 18th Annual Congress for New Urbanism

  
  Atlanta Real Estate Forum — Authority: 136
  You do not want to miss the upcoming leadership forum co-hosted by Cousins Properties and Central Atlanta Progress on Thursday, January 14th, which kicks off the preliminary activities for the 18th Annual Congress for New Urbanism. It promises to be a particularly lively and informative dialogue regarding Downtown ...
  4 weeks ago

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