Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, Progressivism%&! Sprawl-Mart!- January 9, 2005 Wal-Mart is the largest single force behind the number of US jobs lost to China. They're the largest retailer in the world, and 70% of what they sell is made in China at their insistence. Everyone wants to sell to the largest seller in the world, and Wal-Mart requires...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/01/_sprawlmart.html From the New Discourse list- January 6, 2005 A post by me from the New Discourse list: Im one of those New Urbanists who thinks Modernism was not a mistake, but a stage we went through, important for many reasons, including the development of democracy. I believe traditional design will be different after Modernism, not because theory says...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/01/from_the_new_di.html Travel Tips: Villa Kerylos- January 4, 2005 Classicism is the imitation of Nature. It embodies principles of Nature, like harmonic proportions and the truths the American Founders found self-evident. Neo-Classicism is the imitation of Classicism. Neo-Classicists study Classical buildings and use their details and design in their own design. Both Classical and neo-Classical designs can be very...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/01/travel_tips_vil.html Tired of New York- January 4, 2005 Need a little vacation from New York but don't have time to go anywhere The Caf Petrossian, near Carnegie Center, is the anti-Starbucks. The croissants and atmosphere make you feel like you're in Paris. The Petrossian restaurant is next door on Seventh Avenue. It's a branch of the famous Russian...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/01/tired_of_new_yo.html FILM: Ocean's Twelve & In Good Company- January 4, 2005 There are hundreds of directors in Hollywood who could have made a better sequel to Ocean's Eleven than Steven Soderbergh. The original Ocean's Eleven, of course, was a Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Rat Pack movie, and Soderbergh's remake of the original was a box office smash starring George Clooney,...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/01/film_oceans_twe.html Microneighborhoods- January 4, 2005 The current New York magazine has a story on microneighborhoods on Bleecker Street that talks about the high-priced boutiques Lulu Guinness, Cynthia Rowley, Marc Jacobs and others have opened on just a few blocks of the street. What the New York writer misses is that there's a difference between neighborhoods...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/01/microneighborho.html QT Panoramic View of Times Square Celebration- January 1, 2005 Click on the photo for a panoramic view (via Gothamist)http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/01/qt_panoramic_vi.html |