Posted in The next city on January 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Savannah, Georgia, while on the road.
We’re off for a week to Oregon to be with family. While we’re gone, feel free to sit a spell in the Square. More real soon.
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As we watch history unfolding yet again on the National Mall, we should remember the transformations of this vital space over the last two centuries.
The Plan of Washington, Pierre Charles L’Enfant, 1791.
A view drawn shortly before 1885, when the Washington Monument was completed.
A late nineteenth century view.
A view of the Mall in 1901. Note the train [...]
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Posted in The next city, The next city: energy, The next city: food, The next city: mobility, The next city: urbanism, The next city: water, Vernacular urbanism, tagged American urbanism, Microurbanism, Office of Urban Policy, shovel-ready, urbanism, Vernacular urbanism on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Image from flickr.
“Once we accept that our cities will not be like the cities of the past, it will become possible to see what they might become.” Witold Rybczynski, City Life.
When he wrote those words in 1995, Rybczynski was actually “glimpsing the urban future,” and seeing it as a low-density and low-rise city, amorphous and sprawling, completely [...]
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As the new year begins, I am back to basics in urbanism and architecture. I have been spending some time doing research aimed at understanding the grid as an organizing device for cities. And the more I look into the use of orthogonal (right-angled) geometries as a way to structure urbanism, the more questions I [...]
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