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European Urbanism: Lessons from a City without Suburbs
Posted on March 22, 2011 | No CommentsAthens has all the recommended incredients of Smart Growth and New Urbanism. It should be the an ideal prototype to understand and emulate. A closer look reveals that the application of the accepted design recipies deliver an upallatable outcome both for its residents and for the environment. What happened? -
Beloved and Abandoned: A Platting Named Portland
Posted on March 21, 2010 | 3 CommentsIn the 4000-year history of the grid, American incarnations are relatively new, appearing first about 300 years ago, frequently as a simple, orthogonal and often square (such as Portland’s) ‘Hippodamian’... -
Strasbourg – Old urbanism to FusedGrid
Posted on February 26, 2010 | No CommentsStrasbourg, France turned much of the old fortified city into a pedestrian priority realm. It adapted its inherited organic street network to the car and light rail by applying the... -
Frankfurt – Old urbanism to Fused Grid
Posted on February 26, 2010 | No CommentsFrankfurt, Germany turned much of the old fortified city into a pedestrian priority realm. It adapted its inherited organic street network to the car and rail by applying the Fused... -
“Urbanesque”: Town Place, No Town
Posted on February 25, 2010 | No Comments”Urbanesque”: – the perfect urban mix: 19th century urbanism with 20th century technology and commerce. The Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley, 10 km south of Allentown (pop 100k) display the... -
“Urbanesque”: Town Square, Street, Place …. But No Town
Posted on February 25, 2010 | No Comments”Urbanesque” – the perfect urban mix: 19th century urbanism with 20th century technology and commerce. The Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley, 10 km south of Allentown (pop 100k), display the... -
“Eyes on Street” – Un-coded
Posted on February 25, 2010 | No CommentsIn Pompeii, Italy and Mani, Greece, two streets more than a thousand years apart follow the same dis-urban code. These two streets are good examples of urbanism: they are narrow;... -
Who is the Problem
Posted on January 28, 2008 | No CommentsCurrent discussion on city growth paints a bleak picture of what has happened and, by inference, of what lies ahead. But hope and despair are a matter of perspective and...