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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Weekly update
22-28th November 2010 Monday Meeting with Space Syntax colleagues regarding company strategy in preparation for visit to London next week. Call with Steve Coast regarding open source software development. Meeting with Jim Stockard, Curator of the Loeb Fellowship. Tuesday Call … Continue reading
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Much much more with much much less
Inspired by a comment by Rahul Mehrotra, “Much much more with much much less” is the theme of next semester’s Loeb Fellowship Public Seminar series. The four seminars in the series will take place at the Harvard University Graduate School … Continue reading
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Getting to know-your-place
Stub… If the future is local, we need to get to know local. Academy of Urbanism: http://www.knowyourplace.info
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So what is the role of the architect?
Stub… Enabler? Synthesiser? Configurer?
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Why it isn’t all about common sense…
There is a view that historic cities have all the answers and we just need to look at them. Or, in any case, it’s just common sense. If professionals had a bit more common sense they would make a better … Continue reading
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Connectedness & continuity
There is a view that the creation of continuously connected places leads to sameness. Looking at real places suggests otherwise – witness the distinctly different quarters of Paris, New York’s strikingly heterogeneous local centres, or London’s urban villages. So what … Continue reading
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Technology – it’s the new concrete!
Stub… Pouring concrete used to be the “macho” expression of urban planning power. Today it is technology. “Macho” has translated into “cool”. Risk – we jump too quickly through the filter of common sense ie the “What’s all this for?” … Continue reading
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Landscape Urbanism & New Urbanism: it shouldn’t be so divisive
Summary Despite the efforts of each party to highlight its differences, there is a significant overlap between Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism, both positive and negative. Positive: a concern about urban harmony. Negative: a tendency to fragment (call it sprawl). … Continue reading
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Istanbul/Shoreditch crits
Istanbul Richard Peiser John Portman Alex David TS TS site analysis Site is at the intersection of a major radial and a major orbital route. V strong road connections. Potentially local drive/walk connections. Key will be to exploit both. But … Continue reading
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Go looking for the thing you can’t see
Architecture is obsessed with what things look like. Hence the focus on form and style; on the materials that buildings are made from; on the processes by which these materials are brought together. In school, in practice and in the … Continue reading
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Good ideas come from crowds & liquid networks
An article on the BBC Business website neatly summarises Steven Johnson’s research findings on the origins of innovations: “Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down; but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple … Continue reading
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Spatial Justice in Urban India
Notes from a talk by Leo Saldanha and Bharghavi Rao on “Contested Terrains: Environmental and Spatial Justice in Urban India” at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, organised by HUPO, the Harvard Urban Planning Organisation. Themes A right to life … Continue reading
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