Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismAnother Good Rome Book- June 18, 2004 The best English guide to Italian restaurants:http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/06/another_good_ro.html Saluti da Roma- June 17, 2004 I'm in Rome. Lucky me. If you know Rome but don't know this book, take a look. It has opinions on the most interesting places of Rome, from piazze and museums to restaurants and stores. (The first in a series, it is far and away the best in the series,...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/06/bella_roma.html Buses I Have Known in New York, London, Vienna & Rome- June 17, 2004 Why don't we have nice little buses like these Electric, it's quiet, clean, and fits down Roman alleys. More to come the weather is perfect, so blogging will have to wait.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/06/saluti_da_roma.html Regent Street- June 14, 2004 Siefgried Giedion and Le Corbusier, two of the most important theorists and polemicists of Modernism, recognized the social program and admired it: they also wanted to reform the world. The scale of these works also fit with the abstract, aesthetic scale of Modernism and the scale Modernists hoped to work at in their public works. Urban renewal became an essential part of Modernism's agenda. On the whole, the urban renewal was a failure (Jane Jacobs called it "urban removal"), and it.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/06/regent_street.html Times Square- June 14, 2004 True Brits will be insulted by my shorthand statement above that Piccadilly Circus is the Times Square of London. Yes, of course Piccadilly Circus is older than Times Square, which is only a hundred years old. So it's more accurate to say that Times Square is the Piccadilly Circus of...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/06/times_square.html London Pubs- June 10, 2004 By the time this post goes up on the web, I'll be over the Atlantic, half way to London. When it's 5 o'clock in New York, we'll be out at the pub for last call. My introduction to pubs came when I was an exchange student in London. I was...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/06/im_in_london.html More New York Photos- June 6, 2004 I've added 32 photos to my collection of New York City details: click herehttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/06/more_new_york_p.html From England: "What is it with these motorists"- June 2, 2004 An English blog reports that commuters in Liverpool are calling a toll on a tunnel under the Mersey River "a tax on people going to work." Sometimes the obvious needs to be said: It's a tax on bringing their cars to work. And a user fee for the infrastructure that...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/06/from_england_wh.html Plater-Zyberk: Boomer Nation meets Suburban Nation- June 2, 2004 Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is one of 6 Baby Boomers profiled in Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever, and How It Changed America. Publisher's Weekly said:The historianhost of the History Channel's History Center, Steve Gillion chronicles postWWII America through the lives of six boomers who represent different strands of baby...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/06/platerzyberk_bo.html |