Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismOh Mo- August 9, 2006 AS I'VE SAID BEFORE, Yankee fans can't get mad at Mo. He's the best, and he always gives his best. When teams like the Diamondbacks and the Sox beat him in big games, you just have to admit you can't win 'em all. But you can still wish he hadn't...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/08/oh_mo.html UPDATED: “Gehry's Plan for Brooklyn”- August 7, 2006 UPDATE: NO LAND GRAB correctly points out that I made a mistake in the post below: Jonathan Rose's Atlantic Station site did not include the railyards. Look at this very interesting animated timeline they link to at the Center for Urban Pedagogy. In just a couple of weeks I start...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/08/updated_gehrys_.html Quotes of the Day - On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Interstate Highway System- August 7, 2006 "Thus, in overcoming the difficulties of the overcrowded and over-extended city, the suburb proved to be both a temporary and a costly solution. As soon as the suburban pattern became universal, the virtues it at first boasted began to disappear." Lewis Mumford, The City In History (1961) "For the current...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/08/quotes_of_the_d.html Quote of the Day — Coding- August 6, 2006 The law of unintended consequences teaches us that regulations ought to be minimal, restricted to things that are really important (and therefore rarely negotiable). Imagine if Moses' tablets for the Ten Commandments came with instructions that said, 'Conformance with seven out of ten will be considered compliance overall.' Too few...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/08/quote_of_the_da.html More News from the Front- August 4, 2006 ARCHITECTS IN NEW ORLEANS, like architects everywhere, are mainly Modernists. They've been very successful in getting their biases against New Urbanism presented in the Times-Picayune as the common wisdom of the general populace. Like this lead sentence in the third paragraph of a story announcing the Gentilly charrette: The media-savvy,...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/08/news_from_the_f.html Friends of New Orleans dot org- August 4, 2006 FONO Friends of New Orleans: A Pledge to Standby the City and Surrounding Parishes New Orleans, LA Friends of New Orleans (FONO) announced today that it is ready to stand with the communities of South Louisiana. Friends of New Orleans is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization for people...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/08/friends_of_new_.html News from the Front- August 4, 2006 NEW ORLEANS is a world unto itself (look here, and scroll down to, "The great thing about New Orleans is that you can sit down over a few beers and talk (with connected locals) about how decisions are made there, and you'll be very entertained,' he said. "But when you...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/08/news_from_the_f_1.html NOLA: Spike Lee's “Levees”- August 4, 2006 Spike Lee on Hurricane Katrina New York Times, August 3, 2006 By Felicia R. Lee NEW ORLEANS From the beginning Spike Lee knew that Hurricane Katrina was a story he had to tell. Watching the first television images of floating bodies and of desperate people, mostly black, stranded on...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/08/nola_spike_lees.html Bad Urban Design Updated- August 2, 2006 ALL URBAN DESIGN should be about making good places. Too much of the new traffic calming isn't. It's a problem we have to solve. Cleveland's City Planning Department has a pretty good illustrated glossary on their website. But under "traffic calming" they show the roundabout above. Here are some reasons...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/08/bad_urban_desig.html Hot Time, Summer In The City - The Ramble- August 1, 2006 What a great city, to have this at its center. A HEAT WAVE's here - the weatherman says it will hit 103 tomorrow. So we've been going for morning walks in the shade of The Ramble, the most naturalistic part of Central ("naturalistic" instead of "natural" because all of Central...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/08/hot_time_summer.html |