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Santiago Calatrava: a better bridge designer than an architect
I recently visited Calatrava’s City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain. This huge complex was built in the bed of the river Turia, which was diverted after a devastating flood in 1957. Shortly after, the riverbed was converted into a park to showcase the work of the Valencia native, Santiago Calatrava. The park has one…
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Disaster Management & Public Libraries
Recently I watched Spotlight on: The Massachusetts Public Library Construction Program on US Building Digest‘s website. It is about the construction program for libraries in Massachusetts, which is a state program, as opposed to New York’s more local systems. New York City has three separate systems, by the way: New York Public Library (which…
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High Speed Hope
High Speed Hope60 minutes DC to NYC on a train?Yes, please!That is less time than it takes me to get to an airport.Fingers are crossed, but I am prepared for disappointment.
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EVENT: Greater and Greener 7/13/12-7/17/12
This international conference on urban parkland is going on already, but there is still time to partake! Here is the full schedule. It goes through Tuesday and if you happen to have some time off, it looks like there will be plenty of tours of New York City Parks and there are several “tracks”…
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Economics and Affordable Housing
Do urban planners know enough about urban economics? Just mentioning economics is often enough to cause most eyes to glaze over. Why should planners’ eyes be any different? One reason that urban planners don’t tend to study economics too much may be that economics is currently depicted as a conservative mode of thinking, while…
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Walkers (the living non-zombie ones): part 2
Walkers: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 Apologies for the delay in this follow up to my previous Walker post… I have been mulling over what I learned in the Walking & the Life of the City Symposium and trying to figure out how that information can be transformed into useful knowledge to design a more walkable…
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Green House Gas vs. Carbon Footprint and why the difference matters
Global warming caused by environmental degradation is the bane of our times. It will be a paramount concern of our societies for generations to come. There are two ways to measure the impact of our activity on this planet: one is the inventory of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions in a country and the other is the Carbon Footprint (CF) of a…
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STOP WORK IMMEDIATELY!
City of Sweaty Falls Inga Studtmeier, Mayor Frank Botulism, Commissioner of Planning and Development STOP WORK ORDER DOCKET #2012-HX-0728 From: Sweaty Falls Department of Planning and Development To: Playa De La Quesadilla Beach Club and Resort Re: Unauthorized and Unregulated Waterfront Construction Commencing on July 3, 2012 EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY This order to STOP WORK IMMEDIATELY…
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Happy 4th of July!
Best holiday wishes to all our readers! May you keep hydrated and be free of sunburn on July 5th! 2012 might be a year when our founding father’s opinions are being tossed around like they were sitting next to my father’s cousin’s best-friend’s neighbor on the bus this morning, but that is no reason…
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