What Makes a City? (0)
5/04/12 •
Last night, Ximena and I attended a lecture by three members of Archigram at the Building Centre. While there are many different things that could be said about the talk, there was one point in particular that stood out to me and that I decided I wanted to discuss here. Dennis Crompton used his part [...]
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Westfield Stratford, where the Olympics and shopping come together (0)
2/23/12 •
Westfield Stratford, one of the largest urban shopping centers in Europe opened this September about a mile from my house. For all intents and purposes, Westfield Stratford is a mall. A traditional indoor mall with four floors and multiple food courts as well as restuarants and an 18 screen cinema. But also an outdoor mall [...]
Can urban design ensure quality detail? (1)
11/03/11 •
When I am in Cambridge, I pass this fence every day. It’s a very long and otherwise uninteresting fence that encloses the grounds of Wolfson College along Barton Way. It is entirely uninteresting except for this one small dragon, surprisingly perched at the south-western corner of the fence, on an otherwise unremarkable spot. It’s not [...]
Looking at the future: thoughts on the National Conference on Urban Design (0)
10/29/11 •
Apparently, there is a future in which cars are fitted with a device that stops them from going over the speed limit, not allowing the driver to increase velocity using GPS. Another one, more interesting, is where cars drive themselves whilst we play driving simulation games, the real vehicles part of a self-organised, intelligent system [...]
In Defense of Questioning Spatial Assumptions (1)
10/13/11 •
There was a sort of architectural/urban design ‘life lesson’ that I learned many years ago. I learned this lesson when I was an undergraduate and was fortunate enough to be able to study abroad for a semester in Denmark. It was a wonderful experience- not only to be able to learn in a different environment, [...]
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