Open spaces we don’t really want  share 1 day ago by Fausto Majistral To my surprise, the greatest objections to Piano’s plans are being made to his plans for Freedom Square. Not to the Parliament building as such. There were objections to that, of course, from people who cannot see that it fully complements the military architecture of Valletta (St James Cavalier in ... Malta, 9 Thermidor - malta9thermidor.wordpress.com · Rank: 172,817 ·  5 references |
| The Out of Towners revisited share 1 day ago by Jonathan Zuk Neil Simon’s The Out of Towners was one of my favorite classic movies as a kid. When I watched it for the first time, as a ten year-old, I had never been to New York. The film seemed to over-emphasize all that is wrong with the Big Apple, and vicariously how awful every American city is. Filmed in 1 ... Dolores Perch - doloresperch.com · 1 reference |
| The Good Out Of This Bad Recession share 1 day ago by Daniel Ed Glaeser has an unfortunately timed post arguing that recent city shrinkage is a sign that he was right in an earlier post that cities should spend more resources on ways of giving urban dwellers the chance to move out of the city than on trying to improve the city because it’s a hopeless task. To ... Daniel Strauss - danielstrauss.wordpress.com · Rank: 118,885 · 6 references |
| ComplexCity share 1 day ago by noemies The ComplexCity collection will be introducing 10 famous cities. ComplexCity is an exploration to find a concealed aesthetic by using the pattern formed by the city’s roads, which have been growing and evolving randomly through time, thus composing the complex configuration we experience today.The p ... Dailytonic - dailytonic.com · Rank: 11,992 · 37 references |
| Environmentally caused migration share 1 day ago by admin A global phenomenon is arising with people moving as a result of climate change - estimates are at 200 - 700 mill. by 2050. Will these refugees be recognised? We may need a revised legal regime for these migrants. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is central in the picture, a ... Future thrills - viktigtema.no |
| An island mentality? share 1 day ago by karl.whitney My review of Michael Sorkin’s very good book on New York urbanism, ‘Twenty Minutes in Manhattan’, is on the 3:AM Magazine website here. Dumb Riffs - karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs · 4 references |
