modernism

Tall Towers: Purposeful Density or Loose Tower Disease?

Submitted by Joe Menard on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 4:39pm.
Description: Is the current movement of returning downtown to live in towers promoting livable cities, or are such towers a blight on urbanism. Who is right? This session showed three points of view: No tall buildings; managed districts based on specific criteria, i.e., viewsheds, etc.; and the... read more »

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Can New Urbanism Capture the Market for Modernism?

Submitted by gmyrek on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 9:15pm.
Description: 6/2/06 11:30am-12:30pm Despite the Charter's statement that the seamless linkage of buildings to their surroundings transcends issues of architectural style, there have been many debates about the role of modernism within new urbanism. These debates have a renewed urgency in the fa... read more »

The Other Illness*

Submitted by Joe Menard on Wed, 05/09/2007 - 2:58pm.
Description: Our beloved planet has been diagnosed with a terminal illness - the carbon catastrophe. The tiresome thing about people with terminal diseases is that they can’t think about anything else. Fortunately, perhaps, the world has a second potentially terminal illness-raging tribalism.... read more »

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