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I don?t think it is unreasonable or unlikely either, it would be great. That is not the point. The point is can the vibrant Seaport you imagine be realized at all? I think it is a luxury that cannot be supported without the wacked economics of the now deflating real estate bubble. It is like...

I know my argument is rhetorical and unrealistic; of course we will do both.?now on with the rhetoric.. So creating a new district with life will breathe life into an existing lifeless district?!? Maybe. Can?t the existing lifeless districts be re-animated [re-zoned, re-designed] without...

Bloom where you're planted... I think your examples are beautiful and, populated by normal French lives, would be just as compelling to the cultural tourist as "authentic" Paris. But your quote above is the very thing that cannot be replicated "on spec". Building a French neighborhood does...

Last year the city released an RFQ for Dudley. See: http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/Planning/PlanningInitsIndividual.asp?action=ViewInit&InitID=133 from the RFQ: ?The scope of work includes full design services to develop a new, approximately 125,000 ? 175,000 gross square foot...

"Now, there's a touch of the new and a touch of the old"

dream vs reality

An excellent essay regarding Nimby-ism. "The Social Functions of NIMBYism" by:Matthew J. Kiefer http://www.planetizen.com/node/34505

why not just design the 'preferred' city and have the Zoning require that the lots must be built-out according to the design? Oh yeah... that pesky "private property rights"/"free market" thingy.

Du-sell

the video was great. very funny.....so that was positive. What do you see as the problem, is it that we do not appreciate the amazing reality around us or is it that people are fearful of a future that is increasingly being depicted and acknowledged as 'bad' [credit crisis, depression...

"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude." Oscar Wilde

The reason that this vision was not proposed/implemented earlier is because there was [is?] no problem [no demand]. Barring an intervening calamity, I think something like it will happen in the future. I don?t think it could be successfully mandated through zoning or planning but over time it...

How old is this guy?

The [relatively orderly] decline of the US standard of living to meet the ?rise of the rest? is the best case scenario for the future of the US and the world. The fate of the emerging markets must figure largely in the US plans moving forward. The US is the world economic leader and the USD...

SOYLENT GREEN IS MADE OUT OF PEOPLE! It would be worth the price of admission to see Glaeser, Koolhaas and Menino in the same room

Not sure if this should be posted in this folder...if not I apologize. http://ecologicalurbanism.gsd.harvard.edu/ [from website] "ECOLOGICAL URBANISM: Alternative and Sustainable Cities of the Future Conference at Harvard University Graduate School of Design April 3 - 5, 2009 With the aim...

^priceless how about: There once was a hub with a truck-route, That hovered through town like a coal chute; They took it all down, Put it underground, And now there?s a place for the dog poop.

A sort of CliffsNotes of Architecture? ;) Paraphrasing is a summary; a shorter, simpler version of an original. [Me with my Koolhaas-haat on would ask:] why settle with only paraphrasing? Why not occasionally write something fresh and possibly more relevant to the present? Versus the...

Thanks for the thoughtful comments. I enjoy reading your well crafted and cogent posts. I think the text I posted, bombast notwithstanding, is only Koolhaas? critique of the conceptual limitations of contextualism [which I take as the regulation and preservation of a historic district for...

In addition one stair must be a smoke proof enclosure [a pressurized stair with a pressurized vestibule on every floor] that further protects the firefighters as they move through the building. Also, minor point, in Massachusetts a highrise is 70 feet from mean grade.