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Roosevelt Island Tram – CC image from The Eyes of New York A couple of items that came across the internet about technology, innovation, the economy, and urban form: Tech & the City Nancy Scola pens a long piece in Next American City about the future of the technology industry in the city. The piece looks at Continue reading Shaping Silicon Valley Greenwich Village – CC image from lumierefl A few more thoughts on recent discussions of density. Better Cities and Towns offers a summary of Richard Florida’s recent speech (video is corrupted, unfortunately – it gets very choppy 1/3 the way through) at CNU. The twitter summary: quality of place trumps density. Like previous discussions on the topic, Continue reading What do we mean by ‘density’? dc cranescape – CC image from yawper A common theme is emerging among those thinking and writing about cities, from Ryan Avent to Ed Glaeser to Paul Krugman – our land use controls have stunted growth in our developed and productive areas – our cities. So, a simple fix would be to just allow more Continue reading Institutional hurdles to dense infill development Bethesda Row – note that you don't even see how tall the buildings are – CC image from faceless b Kaid Benfield’s excellent blog had a post last week on the need for better urban design and management of the public realm in our new, dense infill development. And while I certainly agree with the Continue reading On density and design tradeoffs CC image from MV Jantzen Last week’s City Paper cover story, a profile of DC architect Eric Colbert by Lydia DePillis, contains several jabs at Colbert’s not-so-daring designs: You may not remember precisely what they look like, though. They form a background blur in neighborhoods where much of Colbert’s work is clustered, blending together quietly in Continue reading Scale, urban design, and architecture (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 Continue reading Some for you, some for Mies – a defense of DC’s MLK Library |
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