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a town square conversations about where we live skip to content menu a town square conversations about where we live lessons for an auto didact posted on august 8 2023 by aandh a new ish rochester starbucks in rochester henrietta starbucks paris venice paris strasbourg nyc chicago paris rome vienna london singapore melbourne maybe we need to rethink some things here tagged bad urban design cafes cars good urban design reshaping rochester starbucks 5 comments six essays 2 simplicity posted on july 5 2023 july 5 2023 by aandh st louis photo by marc l italien essay 1 was about restraint in essay 1 i exhort all those who are involved in making and shaping the built world we inhabit to work without willful self indulgence to avoid innovation for its own sake to embrace modesty to mistrust technology and to build incrementally and renewably in continue reading six essays 2 simplicity tagged artificial complexity asplund big essays helsinki local artisanship regionalism savannah simplicity solidity useless projects varnacular regionalism 3 comments six essays 1 restraint posted on september 27 2022 october 1 2022 by aandh this is the first of six posts that will comprise six memos for the next architecture the six memos are titled restraint simplicity solidity circumstance fluency and durability renouncing things is less difficult than people believe it s all a matter of getting started once you ve succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential you realize continue reading six essays 1 restraint tagged essays excess ingels lifeboats manchester milwaukee restraint telosa timber waste 4 comments a voice at the window a prologue posted on july 18 2022 by aandh in late 1985 the great writer and thinker italo calvino completed a collection of lectures he was scheduled to deliver at harvard the distinguished charles eliot norton lectures he had five in hand a subject for the sixth and a title for the whole six memos for the next millennium on the threshold of his continue reading a voice at the window a prologue tagged calvino charles burchfield circumstance durability fluency invisible cities joe jones john little john sloan kublai khan marco polo norbert goeneutte paul cornoyer restraint simplicity six memos solidity leave a comment on the roman street where we live pompey s theater posted on july 5 2022 july 4 2023 by aandh pompey s theater 55 bce pompey s theater was built nearly 2 100 years ago and was the first masonry theater in rome when it was completed it could seat about 20 000 by various estimates and it covered almost all of our neighborhood our apartment was on stage left very near to the stage s apron and the continue reading on the roman street where we live pompey s theater tagged caesar footprints pompey pompey s theater rome leave a comment home from rome surely surviving modernity posted on july 1 2022 july 1 2022 by aandh modernism is clearly expressed by the segregation of activities and peoples the specialization and isolation of professions and the systems they create the rapid centralization of ever larger capitalist institutions and developments and the monopoly of certain technologies most notably the car peter calthorpe the next american metropolis campo de fiori we have just continue reading home from rome surely surviving modernity tagged campo de fiori density diversity pantheon rome urban design urbanism walkable density walkshed 2 comments inside outside rooms memory posted on november 16 2021 by aandh every moment happens twice inside and outside and they are two different histories zadie smith two memories emerged with startling clarity recently prompted by a television program and for reasons which i do not understand i was at once transported to louis kahn s unitarian church 1962 where an orchestra was performing on the screen and continue reading inside outside rooms memory tagged ahmedabad architecture asplund baerentzen beijing bramante tempietto giotto kahn place des voges siena soane sullivan svoboda urban design van eyck 2 comments artes perditae posted on september 29 2021 by aandh artes perditae is latin for lost arts and now it is time for us to find recall or unearth as many lost arts as we can we are going to need them why because as paul gilding tells us in his book the great disruption we ve been borrowing from the future and the debt has continue reading artes perditae tagged climate change infrastructure the great dilemma the next city urban design urbanism 2 comments future perfect simple posted on august 18 2021 august 18 2021 by aandh i will be brief for once last month here i described various more or less mostly less attractive visions for a livable durable and workable city of the future most of what i could find as i searched for places that looked like somewhere some of us might enjoy might call lovely might call home continue reading future perfect simple tagged dystopia ideal city james mckay utopia vision for the future leave a comment future past future perfect posted on july 19 2021 july 20 2021 by aandh in an attempt perhaps futile to find enthusiasm and hope for what lies ahead for us earthlings i have been re examining all kinds of depictions of the ideal city of the future images of dystopia hugely outnumber anything even moderately resembling a happier urban model for better days this is a sad but continue reading future past future perfect tagged dystopia ideal city utopia vision for the future leave a comment posts navigation older posts categories a town square magic urbanism the next city the next city energy the next city food the next city infrastructure the next city introduction the next city mobility the next city transportation the next city urbanism the next city water urban design utopia vernacular urbanism voodoo urbanism search for a motto for the next city we stand here confronted by insurmountable opportunity pogo a working definition a sustainable city is one that finds the means forms shapes 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