Traces of the old city, still visible in the midst of the next city.
If there are blocks in the next city, and I think there will be, and if the blocks are 250′ or 300,’ then nearly 40 blocks will cover that old cloverleaf interchange. Good riddance.
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While doing research on how to make the next city more attractive, usable, and sustainable, I ran across what seemed at the moment like a tiny little detail – plastic bags.
It turns out that perhaps this is not such a little thing at all. It turns out that every year 5 trillion plastic bags are [...]
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Viewing the World of Tomorrow, Futurama, 1939.
At the 1939 New York World’s Fair, GM created ”Futurama.” The centerpiece of their exhibition was a giant model of the American landscape of the future, 1960. Visitors took seats around the circular model, and slowly rotated to take in all of the prognostication. The caption on the image below, from [...]
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Posted in The next city on August 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On our recent trip up to Rochester, we drove along the lovely Susquehanna river, and into New York state near Elmira and Corning. On the way back, we stopped in Elmira for lunch, at a small deli on the banks of the Chemung River. Next door to lunch was this building, the Chemung Canal Trust [...]
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At sea.
Take a look at an article, link below, in Monday’s International Herald Tribune. It’s about an exhibition in Belgium focusing on water issues.
Reader’s Digest version: 70% of the earth’s surface is water. Of that amount, 3% is fresh water. Of that amount, 1% is potable. Thus the name of the exhibition: “1% Water and Our [...]
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Posted in The next city, The next city: energy, The next city: infrastructure, The next city: introduction, The next city: mobility, The next city: urbanism, The next city: water, tagged The next city, Urban design, urbanism on August 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Frtiz Lang’s “Metropolis”
We have tried here in the last months to describe how our cities, where more than half the world’s population now lives, (80% of all Americans live in cities) are obsolete, and are failing and will more acutely fail to operate as usable human communities in the years ahead. This obsolescence and failure is no [...]
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