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  MoMA’s Home Delivery: A Disappointment

  Diana Lind | Wed, Aug 6th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: architecture, diana lind, moma, prefab, home delivery | 0

  MoMA’s big summer show is called Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. If this is the future of architecture, I regrettably have to say I want no part of it.

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  Crown of Thorns

  Jeremy Rosenberg | Mon, Jul 14th, 2008 | Category: Guests | City: Los Angeles | Tags: environment, building, los angeles, downtown, architecture, dubai, jeremy rosenberg, los angeles city hall | 1

  The tops of L.A.’s buildings are bland as a smogless sunset. But at least this design saves lives — right?

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  Where’s the Love? Philly Keeps Losing People

  Diana Lind | Fri, Jul 11th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, architecture, diana lind, gentrification, taxes, philadelphia inquirer | 20

  Yesterday the Inky dealt the latest blow to the city’s self-esteem: in the past seven years, Philly’s run a population deficit of 68,000. The only American city to lose more people was New Orleans.

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• Columnists

  Harry Potter and the City of Gold

  Simmons Buntin | Tue, Jun 17th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Boulder | Tags: tucson, simmons buntin, architecture, alley, england, restaurants, streetscape, boulder, urban form, theme parks, amusement parks, harry potter | 0

  The release of a Harry Potter prequel this week creates a spell on one reader, who goes on to ponder: What does J.K. Rowling’s seven-book Harry Potter series tell us about urban form, and what might that form look like?  By 2010 we’ll know, as the Wizarding World of Harry Potter comes to life with hamlet, forest, and school grounds at Universal Studios in Orlando.  But how authentic can it be?

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• Columnists

  My Martian City

  Simmons Buntin | Fri, May 30th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: tucson, simmons buntin, building, architecture, pennsylvania, arizona, ecocity, planets, martian, future city, colonization, mars, arcology, space travel | 1

  All the recent Phoenix Mars Lander hullabaloo has got me thinking about what the first Earth-built city on Mars would look like.  Who would get the opportunity to plan that city, and would we find the amenities that make Earth’s best urban spaces also make for the best cities on the Red Planet?

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• Headlines

  Martin Luther King Remembered, Public-Housing Not Remembered, New Orleans Economic Immunity, More

  Jeffrey Hill | Fri, Apr 4th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: environment, hillary clinton, news, obama, barack obama, headlines, clinton, infrastructure, architecture, foreclosure, green, homeless, boston, mortgage, architects, foreclosures, katrina, beijing, japan, oakland, janet speyrer, new york mets, dr. janet speyrer, bronx, kyoto, new york yankees, boston red sox, martin luther king jr. | 0

  America evaluates change since Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, democratic presidential candidates still ignoring key city issues, economist Janet Speyrer offers insight on how recession may or may not impact New Orleans, Kyoto passes new accord and more in today’s headlines.

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• Headlines

  City graduation rates, Harlem’s green building, Ralph Rapson dies, Next American City vs. Big Oil?

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Apr 1st, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: jeffrey hill, environment, news, detroit, building, energy, architecture, green, oil, minneapolis, harlem, forbes, austin, whole foods, toyota, ralph rapson | 0

  New reports shows 50 of the largest cities in the U.S. have high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent. Philadelphia City Council rethinks urban planning strategy. David & Joyce Dinkins Gardens, built in Harlem, features green standards and Next American City chosen as one of the panelists to grill big oil companies at new congressional hearing? Today’s headlines.

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• Columnists

  What Rock ‘n Roll and the National Register of Historic Places (Don’t) Have in Common

  Simmons Buntin | Wed, Mar 26th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: tucson, simmons buntin, building, growth, architecture, historic preservation, music, the economist, rock and roll, national register of historic places | 0

  Hey buddy, being old doesn’t make it classic.  The same is true for architecture, though here I substitute historic for classic.  A recent article in The Economist troubles me in a similar way. 

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  Designing Beyond the Virtual City

  Simmons Buntin | Tue, Mar 18th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: simmons buntin, architecture, website, facebook, urban design compendium, town planning, urban design, christopher alexander, city design, good city form, kevin lynch, website design, resources, pattern languge | 0

  This website design process got me thinking about the city design process, and what they’ve got in common.  Does the virtual translate to the concrete?  No matter how technology changes, the process used to design websites is fundamentally the same.  Is that also true for cities?

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• The Daily Report

  Preserving the Recent Past - an Interview with Christine Madrid French

  Matt Stroud | Tue, Jan 8th, 2008 | Category: Guests | Tags: architecture, marcel breuer building, christine madrid french, preserving the recent past, boston city hall | 1

  Ray Hainer discusses Brutalism, thoughtless demolition and the preservation of the recent past with Christine Madrid French.

  This is a perilous time for modern architecture. Numerous landmark buildings from the postwar decades have been laid low in recent years by cities, developers, and institutions eager to make way for new development, and many more, old enough to have fallen out of fashion but too young to be considered historic, are now endangered, including works by celebrated…

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  Video Games for Architects

  Jeffrey Hill | Sat, Jan 5th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: jeffrey hill, architecture, dallas, video games, cowboy stadium, virtual tours, video games for architects, epic games, sim city | 0

  In the computer game world of Sim City, an urban developer’s answer to crime is building nine police stations on the same block. If you need more money, you raise taxes by 20% for two years. If your city is not working, you level it with a Godzilla attack.  It is this logic that has always separated video games from reality. Rome wasn’t built in an evening after school. As video games strive to become more realistic, businesses are now starting to incorporate their technology in the real…

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