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!
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
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