Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismBoston Before & After- November 28, 2004 A photo album at cyurbia.com has great Before & After pictures of Boston since the 1920s such as the the aerial view above of central Boston in 1923. Boston still looked like a medieval city then, with channels of space carved into an almost solid mass of buildings, like riverbeds...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/11/boston_before_a.html Boston Before & After Plans- November 28, 2004 The Obsolete Neighborhood (above, left) torn down in 1963 is what the best planners today would design. The New Plan (above, right) is the Tower In The Parking Lot invented by Le Corbusier three decades earlier. La plus a change . . .http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/11/boston_before_a_1.html Boston Before & After III- November 28, 2004 Human Scale versus Machine Scale Human Space versus No Placehttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/11/boston_before_a_2.html City Journal Counter Project- November 24, 2004 The City Journal has sponsored several interesting counter projects for New York City building sites. The first was for Lincoln Center, the second for Ground Zero. The most recent is in the current issue, on a new street proposed by the City Planning Department over the West Side railyards. As...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/11/city_journal_co.html PPS Picks 20 Best Towns & Neighborhoods.- November 23, 2004 The Project for Public Spaces has picked their twenty favorite towns, districts and neighborhoods in North America. Their list certainly isn't the same as mine (where are Charleston and Savannah, or Cambridge or Stonington and the East Village isn't where I choose to live in New York, even though...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/11/pps_picks_20_be.html More THOR- November 20, 2004 Our RoomGeez, we've been busy since our downtown vacation, and I haven't had time to write it up or finish a few other posts. But I have put many photos of the hotel, the Loisaida and a bit o' SoHo in my photoalbums. They start in the first New York...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/11/more_thor.html Savannah- November 16, 2004 The City of Savannah is about to remove a parking lot filling a former square, in order to restore the square and the market that used to be in it. Kudos to Savannah. The plan is here; you can read about it here. Savannah is one of the most beautiful...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/11/the_city_of_sav.html THOR — Life's A BlogUpdate 1120- November 9, 2004 love Modern boutique hotels, so we decided to vacation at home at the new THOR (The Hotel On Rivington), the Lower East Side hotel that's one of the hottest places in the blogosphere (look here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here and those were just the...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/11/lifes_a_blog.html So BoHo! — Mo' Boho Than SoHo- November 3, 2004 From Curbed.comThe NYT Real Estate section's "Living In" feature takes a break from outer suburbia to check out the East Village's Tompkins Square Park: "For a comparable space, prices in the Tompkins Square neighborhood tend to be about a third less than in the West Village, but that isn't the...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/11/so_boho_mdash_m.html New Penn Station Finally Coming- November 3, 2004 Also from Curbed.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/11/new_penn_statio.html |