Good stuff, good stuff, good stuff. Enjoy some reading this weekend, folks. There's something here for everyone...ITEM ONE: Deputydog explores Portland's Dignity Village, the "most organized shanty town on earth."
ITEM TWO: Creative class guru Richard Florida, MIT Department of Architecture head Yung Ho Chang, and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybek are just a few of the experts to which Architect Magazine posed the question: "How Would You Spend $1.6 Trillion on Infrastructure in the US?"
ITEM THREE: A pleasingly astute assesment of the Gentrifyer's Guilt from the blog Believe in the Greatest City that Reads in America (which is Baltimore, apparently).
ITEM FOUR: Landscape Urbanism with a great (and well-illustrated) profile of Jean Nouvel as part of the Veg.itect series. (Also check out this review of the Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes exhibit, which opened this week in Minneapolis). (Photo credit)
ITEM FIVE: WorldChanging on how peak population -- and the inevitable decline to follow -- should frame the current discussion of susatinability.
ITEM SIX: Guest blogger Dave Atkins reviews Suburban Transformations over at All About Cities. Where featured a review of this book last month, and if you missed that, make sure to check out Mr. Atkins' post.
ITEM SEVEN: In case you missed it, Science just put out a special issue focusing on cities and the "urban planet" phenom.
See you Sunday for Urbanffffinds!
1 comment:
That shantytown link is great, did you ever catch the TNAC article about the architect who wants to develop a kind of shantytown in San Diego? Maybe unrealistic but it would be an ambitious experiment. Here's the link
http://americancity.org/article.php?id_article=316
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