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Some for you, some for Mies - a defense of DC's MLK Library

(Mies’ Chicago Federal Plaza, with Alexander Calder’s Flamingo sculpture. A note about the lack of people in the plaza – this photo was taken with a temperature of about -5 degrees and a wind chill well below that. Author’s photo)

Today, Lydia DePillis has a guest post from Kriston Capps offering a well-put defense of DC’s

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Jeff Wood’s handy mailing list on behalf of Re-connecting America pointed me towards this article from Urban Omnibus, disputing the broad conclusions from Geoffrey West’s work towards discovering a universal theory of cities. Eric Peterson, the author, does not like the implications of West’s quantitative work and the implications of physical

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@JGluckman great point - we can go (and grow) taller while still feeling horizontal. - 14 hours ago
RT @JGluckman: Barcelona and Paris have densities 4 times DC's while still feeling horizontal. - 14 hours ago
RT @JGluckman: @HTinWDC suggests Paris and London as models for national capitals that are as much/more known for business and culture. #He… - 14 hours ago
RT @JacksonCarnes: Pierre L'Enfant, father of DC urban planning, provided no limit or suggested limit on height. L'Enfant Plan created in 1… - 14 hours ago
RT @enf: Graphic illustrations of how much space required parking eats up graphingparking.wordpress.com via @tranlib @urbandata @svrdesign - 1 day ago
Wow. Score one for the common loon. #Birds slate.com/articles/healt… - 1 day ago
RT @BeschlossDC: This is the future Times Square NYC, 1878, altho it almost looks like an intersection in a frontier town: http://t.co/EAjI… - 1 day ago
@GeorgetownMet yeah, that's exactly how I read the initial statistic. Maybe I stare at census data too much. - 2 days ago
@EricFidler were they thinking of Sunday-only back-in angled parking? - 2 days ago
@MarketUrbanism @urbanophile agreed. 'designed to' implies intent; I think the impacts are unintended consequences. Or counterintuitive ones - 2 days ago

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