Image from MoMA.
We’re off to Philly for a few days of snooping around. Feel free to have a look around here while we’re gone. Back next week.
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Photo by Toby Melville, REUTERS.
Heard on the streets of the city this afternoon, a gaggle of folks walking in the opposite direction, very much engaged in their conversation. One of the guys says, “Once we get through this….” He meant this economic recession or meltdown or whatever you call it. Which got me to thinking.
I have [...]
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Posted in The next city, The next city: food, The next city: urbanism, Urban design, tagged Dutch cities, Ruisdael, The next city, Urban design, urbanism, van der Hayden on May 5, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Amsterdam, painted by Jan Micker in 1652, 350 years before Google Earth.
Lately I have been provoked to reflect on the shapes and forms of urbanism past and future, about the nature of compact and dense urban places, and about what makes the next city, or any city, literally sustainable. Let me explain.
This last weekend we had a chance to [...]
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