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Tag Archives: Suburbs
Completing the City – Great Lessons from the Form of Venice
In one of his seminal works, “A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals” (Kostof, Spiro, Oxford University Press, New York, 1985), Spiro Kostof (+) addressed “The City Design at Large” (pp. 472-476). One emphasis was the work of the “Magistry of Waters”, a … Continue reading
Posted in Bauwerk, Planning & Urban Design, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, San Marco, Venice Italy
Tagged Bauwerk, City Planning, Community, Course Correction, Crafting Place, Great Cities, History, Innovation, Italy, Leadership, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Spiro Kostof, Suburbs, Urban Design, Venetian Lagoon, Venice
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Walled In or Walled Out – A Community Planning Lesson from Venice
Many write about and speak to the glorious open views across the Venetian Lagoon, the extraordinary scenes down every canal and rio, the sunny expanses of campos surrounded by cafes and glorious architecture —The City of Light, The City of … Continue reading
Posted in Bauwerk, Environment, Lead On, Planning & Urban Design, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Venice Italy
Tagged Bauwerk, City Planning, Community, Course Correction, Crafting Place, Italy, Lead On, Leadership, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Suburbs, Travel, Urban Design, Venice
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Community and Opportunity
Over twenty-five centuries ago, the Greek philosopher Alcaeus accurately observed, “Not house finely roofed or the stones of walls well-builded, nor canals and dockyards, make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.” The “slums and slurbs” to which we … Continue reading
Posted in Bauwerk, Lead On, Planning & Urban Design, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Zeitgeist
Tagged Alcaeus, Bauwerk, City Planning, Community, Course Correction, Crafting Place, Lead On, Mark Twain, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Suburbs, Urban Design, Yeats, Zeitgeist
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“Carpet Bombing” Again Threatens Cities
…and Suburbs are now also targets of opportunity, sometimes merely for existing despite the self-proclaimed “greater wisdom” of the urban planning gurus. The “Carpet Bombing” I am addressing is a particularly invasive form of “redevelopment” or “urban renewal” or “economic … Continue reading
Posted in Bauwerk, Lead On, Planning & Urban Design, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules
Tagged City Planning, Community, Course Correction, Crafting Place, Lead On, Leadership, Redevelopment, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Suburbs, The Enlightenment, Urban Design, Urban Open Space, Urban Renewal
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Community and Space – Introduction (Crafting Places Series)
(Welcome to new and returning readers! This is the 2nd post in the “Crafting Places” series, which “kicked off” on October 4, 2010, with a “Preface” article introducing the series, accessed on line at http://wp.me/pVUDj-np and on the “Urban Design” sub-page “Crafting Spaces” of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Bauwerk, Planning & Urban Design, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules
Tagged Architecture, Bauwerk, City Planning, Crafting Place, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Suburbs, Urban Design, Urban Open Space
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File Drawer City
As we are encouraged to plan and execute our Escape From Cubicle Nation (The title of Pam Slim’s excellent, positive book and her blog at http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/ – take a look when you’re done here!) on the one hand, we are now being directed and prepared by … Continue reading
Posted in Bauwerk, Environment, Planning & Urban Design, Reformation, Renaissance, Zeitgeist
Tagged Architecture, City Planning, Leadership, Renaissance, Suburbs, Urban Design, Urban Open Space
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Landscape of Change
by Randy D. Bosch To fulfill needs and desires, mankind works to create a “Place” out of a portion of the natural landscape, or by altering what is perceived to be inferior or underperforming landscapes – whether natural, man-influenced or … Continue reading
Posted in Bauwerk, Planning & Urban Design, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Zeitgeist
Tagged Change, City Planning, Colonialists, Landscape, Place, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Suburbs, Urban Design, Zeitgeist
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Ecological Principles for City Planning
In a time when real excesses of suburban development have in many cases greatly damaged both the natural environment and the health of the cities to which they attach, and while financial shenanigans make suburbanites vulnerable to schemes to “return … Continue reading
Posted in Bauwerk, Environment, Planning & Urban Design, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Zeitgeist
Tagged City Planning, Ecology, Suburbs, Utopia
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Renaissance Rules 