Posts Tagged ‘urbanism’
more thesis prep
pavement to parks
Last Friday was all abuzz with Park(ing) Day, a ‘holiday’ created to celebrate public space. (Sad that it lasts only one day a year!)
In the spirit of reclaiming the streets, Allison Arieff discusses an offshoot of this — land banking. The strategic acquisition of land in advance of expanding urban development, land-banking in [...]
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Tags: green, san francisco, thesis, urbanism
Allan Jacobs, professor of city and regional planning at UC Berkeley, laments the current (well, as of 3 years ago) state of city planning and city planning education in large American cities.
He champions that urban planning’s first priority is about the physical environment of places — ‘what should go where, why, how to get it [...]
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Tags: education, planning, thesis, urbanism
Fred Kent, founder of the Project for Public Spaces, shares his thoughts on place-making initiatives and iconic architecture.
Citing the well-known and well-documented Bilbao effect, Kent argues that iconic architecture precludes the creation of good public spaces, by only promoting a design-centric philosophy where all that matters is the artistic statement conceived by an internationally recognized [...]
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Tags: public spaces, starchitecture, thesis, urbanism
uneasy spaces
Elizabeth Felicella, a NYC-based architectural photographer, did this series from 1997-1998 to explore the ‘landscape of security.’ It was a mode of inquiry into how public places are divided and marked to be shared or protected, along with emotions of territoriality or fear that comes with urban environments.
A set of 140 large-format photographs, Felicella approached [...]
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Tags: new york, photography, public space, thesis, urbanism
new city, new city
i left copenhagen about a month ago. in the interim, ive spent some time with the home clan in new jersey, with the school clan at MIT, weekending at dartmouth, a little bit in new york city, and now i am settled in the bay area for the summer.
like i wrote in my Dear [...]
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Tags: copenhagen, dwell, new york, san francisco, travel, urbanism
russell and i stood atop that regal iceberg in Stortorget, and delivered jewels of information about stockholm’s old city to our faithful student subjects down below. it was a mildly intense feeling, giving a presentation about a place that we had modeled in detail and labored over for a week in studio – and now [...]
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Tags: cities, scandinavia, studio, urbanism
a conversation snippet about design with a non-design person:
John: design people always add some part that doesnt make senseand put a question mark next to itlike…curves -> planesplanes -> objectsobjects -> 4D??
strikingly insightful…
when i see concept boards for the beginning of some design project’s life cycle, they are littered with grand [and often completely disparate] [...]
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Tags: architecture, design, education, interiors, studio, urbanism
a visit to Ørestad
after getting to know mainly copenhagen city center for the past two weeks, my European Urban Design Theories [EUDT] professor scooped us up from class this afternoon and whisked us to the metro. i love the metro here because the big windows grant me this view if i squeesh into the very front cart:
our destination: [...]
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Tags: architecture, cities, copenhagen, denmark, urbanism
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name: tiffany chu
location: cambridge, ma (or san francisco / copenhagen / bridgewater, nj)
industry: architecture + media studies
role: bright, bushy MIT student.
