Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismYellow Journalism in the Good Gray Times- December 9, 2005 Bradford McKee's most recent New York Times article about the New Urban plans for Mississippi's Gulf Coast (Gulf Planning Roils Residents), is either poor journalism or Modernist propaganda. Christopher Hawthorne's article in the Los Angeles Times (In the rush to rebuild, a house divided, While the Gulf Coast lies in...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/12/yellow_journali.html Re New Orleans: “How can we help you to help us”- December 6, 2005 The following was sent to the city by a displaced citizen of New Orleans living in Georgia (full text below). I am living in a lovely house in a subdivision that looks like Pleasantville or something out of Edward Scissorhands....The very reasons the developervultures that are circling around don't approve...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/12/new_orleans_how.html LA Times on Katrina Charrette- December 4, 2005 From the Los Angeles Times: "The Biloxi charrette, in other words, may go down as the architectural elite's Ohio: the place it watched rather helplessly as its ideological opponents outclassed it not through nimble thinking or grand theory or inspiring plans but simply by being more disciplined and better organized....http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/12/la_times_on_kat.html I'm in London- December 4, 2005 Back Thursdayhttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/12/im_in_london.html Is it true- December 4, 2005 AS WE REACH THE 90-DAY mark since Katrina hit, it's time we ended our national state of denial. Turns out House Speaker Dennis Hastert had it right all along, though his reasons were flawed. We should call it quits in New Orleans not because the city can't be made relatively...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/12/is_it_true.html Louisiana Recovery Authority Press Release- December 3, 2005 LRA Engages Nationally-Renowned Planners in Community Planning Effort Louisiana Recovery Authority Board of Directors Meeting Thursday, December 1, 2005 - 9:00 a.m. State Capitol House Committee Room 1 Contact: Catherine Heitman 225-376-7797 225-978-7440 (c) BATON ROUGE, La. -- In a major step toward rebuilding hurricane-ravaged South Louisiana the Louisiana...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/12/louisiana_recov.html “Big-time urban planners being hired to redesign La.”- December 3, 2005 Greater Baton Rouge Business Report Posted 11.30.05 - 11.38 AM A support wing of Gov. Blanco's Louisiana Recovery Authority is set to hire three renowned national urban planners to provide long- and short-term designs for rebuilding hurricane-distressed areas. Today, the LRA Support Corp., a non-profit working with the Baton Rouge...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/12/bigtime_urban_p.html New Orleans- December 1, 2005 I'M WORRIED about the great City of New Orleans. Only 15% of the residents of the city have been able to come back. The rest are scattered around the country, not knowing when or if they will be able to return. Meanwhile, too many in the city and in Baton...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/11/mississippi_lou.html |