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MoMA’s Home Delivery: A Disappointment
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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Denver: America’s Great Urban Canvas, Part I
The metropolitan Denver area has become America’s greatest urban canvas, and a tour of some of the region’s New Urbanist neighborhoods demonstrates why. Join Simmons Buntin and his host, urban planner Carolyn Dooling, as they tour Stapleton in Denver, Bradburn Village in Westminster, and Prospect New Town in Longmont, discovering places with soul.
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- Dave Steele at August 7th at 3:05pm: Agreed, Brendan. The MAM addition has added to the level of design in Milwaukee in that …
- Brendan Crain at August 5th at 5:51pm: A lot was expected of the MAM addition, but I don’t think anyone was looking for …
- Tamra at August 3rd at 1:25pm: I ride DC’s Metro seven days a week - just getting from home to work requires …
- ken o at August 1st at 12:43pm: when i worked in japan, i noticed immediately the escalators which didn’t move until you passed …
- Blutorg at July 31st at 7:35pm: Hmmm. I’ve lived in Montgomery County/DC area way past the shelf life for such (FYI: no …
- Jamie at July 31st at 3:42pm: You’re right that the federal government should focus on assisting homeless families with children-- however, two …
- BradyDale at July 30th at 2:15pm: It is an awful lot to expect a building to turn a city around, but I …
A Victory for Affordable Housing in N.J.
“Governor Jon S. Corzine, welcome to our home,” read a banner in front of 20 fidgeting, mainly African-American, children, waiting for the Governor to arrive on a sweltering July day in southern New Jersey. New Jersey was about to make history again, by enacting into law what urban expert David Rusk called “the most important housing reform legislation enacted in the nation in the past two decades.”
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NAC in New York! Fall Subscriber Party!
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Southern Energy & Environment Expo
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Architecture and the City
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NAC booth at NYC Century Bike Tour!
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Facility Decisions Conference
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Next American City-FUEL Milwaukee host cafe-style symposium
Milwaukee, WI Sep 17, 2008
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