Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismBefore you try to reinvent a place, you should be able to equal it.- July 27, 2007 All photographs 2006-2007 Steve Mouzon IT'S the Sixties all over again: architects, politicians and machers are promoting urban-removal mega-projects and the people are fighting back. In the early Sixties, Jane Jacobs fought Robert Moses and helped stop a highway through the middle of Washington Square and Greenwich Village....http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/07/when-i-wrote-th.html Book Soup- July 25, 2007 UPDATE: I was recently in Lenox, Mass, and wanted to use my iPhone and the WiFi at The Bookstore to show the store's owner that I had put his store on my blog. But I discovered that I had somehow left it off the list. That error is hereby corrected....http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/07/book-soup.html Another corrupt FEMA practice: This one poisons people- July 20, 2007 From the Washington Post: The Federal Emergency Management Agency since early 2006 has suppressed warnings from its own field workers about health problems experienced by hurricane victims living in government-provided trailers with levels of a toxic chemical 75 times the recommended maximum for U.S. workers, congressional lawmakers said yesterday. A...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/07/another-corrupt.html Dog Bites Man: Architecture Professor Wears Black, Criticizes New Urbanism, Designs Neo-50s Houses.- July 16, 2007 THE ARCHITECT of the Porchdog House (above) said, "Yes, Architecture for Humanity ... invited 15 architects to propose prototypes for Biloxi, the only Gulf Coast city that rejected the New Urbanist designs on their city--which I would applaud on a certain level." When do we get over the style cliches...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/07/dog-bites-man-a.html La Fte de la Bastille- July 15, 2007 IN BROOKLYN, the Bar Tabac, Pernod Ricard and Petanque America close four blocks of Smith Street and cover the street with sand for a petanque tournament and Fte Nationale de la France. We'll be there. Why wasn't there something like this in London on the Fourth of July The Alliance...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/07/la-fte-de-la-ba.html |