Note 9/9/12 3:37 pm: After I posted this, a couple people on Twitter pointed out that the Thatcher quote may be wrongly attributed to Thatcher instead of Brian Howard. I changed my copy accordingly (see strikeouts below), but left the quote from review intact. Two days ago PD Smith, author of the magnificent City: A Guidebook […]
Continue reading →From P.D. Smith, a man who knows cities and fun: I’ve written a piece for Arc 1.2, the new digital quarterly from the makers of New Scientist, about cities and fun: “Every year for three whole days in the picturesque Piedmont town of Ivrea, Italy, some three thousand people pelt each other mercilessly with oranges, […]
Continue reading →This re-imagined human brain seems more analogous to a slum than to any conventional urban ideal. Like a slum, the brain does not reveal its intricacies by exposing its design. Instead, it works in mysterious ways, moving through invisible systems and unseen channels that escape explanation. An installation by Yaron Steinburg, via Architizer and John Rennie.
Continue reading →Walking Firenze Leon Krier, from “The City Within the City”.: THE QUARTERS. A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its […]
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