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Milwaukee’s I-195 success
Milwaukee once had a host of beer plants, including Schlitz, Pabst and Blatz, along the Milwaukee River to which hops, malt and other ingredients were shipped in and beer was shipped out by train. The beer factories closed, the Beer … Continue reading
The reactionary avant-garde
The epitome of a contradiction in terms, the idea of a reactionary avant-garde is a most appropriate description of what the theorist Nikos Salingaros calls the “cult” of modern architecture. Charles Siegel uses the term in the title of his … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Book/Film Reviews, Development, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Charles Siegel, Congress for the New Urbanism, Nikos Salingaros, Quinlan Terry, Richmond Riverside, Rob Steuteville, The Humanists versus the Reactionary Avant-Garde, The Public Square
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Fie on a million years!
For his latest piece in CityLab, “Making the Case for Symmetrical Cities,” peripatetic architecture critic Anthony Flint, housed at the Lincoln Institute in Cambridge, does a very nice job adding up the evidence for the superiority of classical and traditional … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Books and Culture, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Ann Sussman, Anthony Flint, Christopher Alexander, CityLab, Cognitive Architecture, Congress for the New Urbanism, Da Vinci, Le Corbusier, Lincoln Institute, Nikos Salingaros, Vitruvius
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Shubow shellacks Lamster
The latest piece by National Civic Art Society president Justin Shubow for Forbes.com, “Why Can’t the New Urbanists Get a Fair Shake?,” is less a defense of the New Urbanism than an attack on Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark … Continue reading
Milwaukee ex-mayor on 195
I am gratified to post the comment of former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist, who revitalized the city’s downtown in the 1990s before spending a decade, I think, as president of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Responding to my post … Continue reading
Column: Kennedy Plaza’s future spins its wheels
Standing on the steps in front of City Hall, several people waited for a tour of Kennedy Plaza to begin, followed by a public discussion of its future. We wondered why the front doors of so many important Providence public … Continue reading
Kennedy Plaza reminder
Wednesday’s tour of Kennedy Plaza and panel discussion of its future, sponsored by the New England chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism, is described below: Vision for Greater Kennedy Plaza: Walkabout and Panel Providence, Rhode Island Wednesday, October … Continue reading
The Providence conference
Here is an e-mail I posted just now to the TradArch and Pro-Urb listservs, discussion groups that have for three or four days now been chewing on my last column, “Modernism invades New Urbanism,” along with architect David Rau’s cri … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Providence, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Andres Duany, classicism, Congress for the New Urbanism, David Rau, modernism, Politics
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Blast: Memories of Seaside
Here is a column I did after visiting Seaside, Fla., the first showcase project of the Congress for the New Urbanism: If only we could clone Seaside December 13, 2001 SEASIDE, Fla. JAMES KUNSTLER writes of approaching Seaside, on Florida’s … Continue reading
Architecture Here and There 