Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismStreets for People- July 18, 2006 WANT TO KNOW how New York could remake its auto sewers Look here and here. (A few hints: wider sidewalks, narrower traffic lanes, two-way streets, proper street trees properly planted, maybe a streetcar here or there...)http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/streets_for_peo.html New Blog- July 17, 2006 HERE'S A BLOG that understands that New York City's streets, of all places, should be for people and not just out-of-towners' cars. My current pet peeve is that we need a congestion zone, and then to remake our auto sewers.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/new_blog_1.html A Simple Question- July 16, 2006 SINCE THE FIRST EARTH DAY, the population of the United States has doubled. More than three-quarters of the US has been built in that time, and most of it is crp. Modernism has been an important architectural movement for more than a century. Frank Lloyd Wright was born 139 years...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/a_simple_questi.html New Urbanism in the New York Times- July 16, 2006 CONSIDERING that my favorite newspaper has a slight inbuilt bias towards the cultural and artistic assumptions of 20th century Modernism, today's article on a New Urban development in Louisiana is pretty well balanced. It is not the Crescent City, however, but rather River Ranch, a commercial development here that is...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/new_urbanism_in.html Morgan Library - less is a bore- July 16, 2006 THE GOOD NEWS is that as you approach the Morgan Library from either the north or the south on Madison Avenue the new addition recedes from the street, so that you see only the older buildings, which maintain their old position and prominence on the avenue. There's lots of bad...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/morgan_library_.html New York Auto Slums- July 15, 2006 The recent elevation of the approach road to the Williamsburg Bridge, seen in the distance, was unnecessary. A well designed boulevard would move just as many cars through the Williamsburg Plaza as the elevated highway, but it would do it in a people-friendly way. The considerably higher elevated highway shown...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/new_york_auto_s.html Ego- July 14, 2006 Want to see the ego at work Look at the doctor who blew up his house on East 62nd Street on Monday. His ego had convinced him that it would be better to kill himself and others in a painful explosion than to sell his house and split $5 million...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/ego.html There are many inconvenient truths- July 14, 2006 One of them is that while we need to get away from dependence on carbon fuels, we have an astounding number of people to feed and some say we couldn't feed the number we have already without petrochemical processes. Here are some facts about the world population and its...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/there_are_many_.html They'll hate this at Harvard- July 9, 2006 UDA and the Louisiana Recovery Authority released the New Urban Pattern Book for Louisiana yesterday. Most Louisiana residents rebuilding after Katrina will want traditional houses, and most builders and architects today don't know how to build or design genuinely traditional architecture, so like the Pattern Book produced at the Mississippi...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/theyll_hate_thi.html An Interesting Press Release- July 7, 2006 New Film Shows Route to Livable, Gridlock-Free Streets Experts from Downtown to the Bronx, as well as London, Paris and Copenhagen show how to meet the transportation needs of NYC's rapidly growing population Co-producers Mark Gorton, successful entrepreneur, founder and director of the Lime Group and Paul Steely White, seasoned...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/interesting_pre.html |