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I think the main difference is the ability of any of them to use his skills and knowledge and talent to perform work required implementation

Sprawl is the dream… the wife and 2.5 kids in a house in the burbs with a dog, a cat, and a white picket fence. How do you change the dream?

I once had faith in the ability of science and industry to design systems to work, to identify the potential problems and develop solutions for these problems, no matter how unlikely they appear to be. I felt that drilling responsibly for oil was a good idea, now I am not so sure. I grew up in Alaska, an oil rich state, I watched the pipeline…[Read more]

One thing I’ve noticed is that critics of smart growth don’t really make any effort to understand it. They love to characterize it as “utopian” without realizing how much utopian thinking went into the sprawling development we see today. Go back a few decades and you see the architects you compared Duany to (especially Corb) talking about a…[Read more]

It is not that new urbanism or agrourbanism or agriburbia are bad ideas, it is more the fact that those concepts work for the people that want them. The general public (rightly or wrongly) has a vision of what they want and that is what they are going to buy. Most new urbanism works in the vacuum of philosophy but fails in actual practice, the…[Read more]

I just don’t think there is much interest in what Duany has to say anymore. He was relevant 20 years ago. He’s just another architect like Wright, Le Corbusier, Gehry, and multitudes of others who thinks he knows the best way to design for the unwashed masses.

I think most people interested in urbanism (including me) have written him off as an…[Read more]

I think it is difficult for it to hit home for some people across the country.

This is site is a special case of people who would naturally keep tabs on it closely.

I like the obama quote “plug the dam hole”

It’s a pretty huge deal in the news I read.. But what I cannot understand is people who still back drilling,(Inhofe and Mikulsky) in spite of this horror, or the BP guys saying things like “it’s pretty small compared to the size of the gulf.”

Today the NYT has a piece on the head of the MMS, who was put in place eight months ago or so, and is…[Read more]

http://www.turenscape.com/english/news/view.php?id=204

I just noticed that they permalinked our discussion to the Turenscape website. Interesting.

“He points out that the New Urbanists were fiercely opposed and often mocked as “being slaves to worn-out traditions — like walking from home to work.””

this is just funny. a bunch of white collars standing in a room making fun of the guy who wants to “walk home from work”

I am wondering the same thing nick. i have been keeping tabs on the story but i have also been thinking why isn’t this a HUGE DEAL. why is this not #1 ands always on top in the news. why is it that news reports on what is happening so “oh this is whats happening….what a shame”

This is a game changer imo. we will talking and dealing with this…[Read more]

Good topic Roland.

Unfortunately it seems there isn’t much interest in urbanism discussion.

I think a land8lounge iPhone app would be GREAT!!! I am not sure how hard it would be for Andrew and the boys down at land8 to pull this off, but if it is possible I would totally be down for it. I am already heavily addicted to land8lounge everytime I sit down at my computer and I can only imagine what would happen if I had “an app for that”.…[Read more]

Thanks John

It still looks and sounds like New Urbanism and an extension of Duany’s transect idea from the suburban to the rural fringe. I feel like this is what wwe’ve been trying to do all along.

In some of the latest projects I’ve been able to work on here we’ve explored the idea of ‘agriburbia’ which is basically using rural land for farming within the…[Read more]

Thanks… we are in the heart of Arab fonts… but nothing seems to work with CAD effectively.

Have you tried searching for Arabic fonts? Several years ago I needed Chinese characters and was able to download a font, load it, and type.

Good Grief, Tanya! That is it! I geuss when you start with the vision of the homeless and their shopping carts, it is a fairly obvious extension..thank you for the link!!
I think I am going to have to buy one and test it out!
I geuss there is nothing new under the sun..Just the energy to get it done..Get ‘er done..

Tanya beat me to it! I was going to post the same thing…just saw it last week I believe.

I like the idea of re-using big-box stores. Las Vegas is now filled with empty stores, industrial/warehouse space, and offices. Partition them off, swap meet style (back east they call them flea markets) and give them a solid door they can lock, maybe a…[Read more]