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Shipping Containers Make a Lively City Market
Talk about an innovative public space. The borough of Brooklyn has a new outdoor market where local vendors sell their wares from recycled shipping containers. Gwen Webber writes in The Architect’s Newspaper: “Low-price, low-rise, low-impact, the new DeKalb Market in Brooklyn is far from low-key. The modular market opened...[read more]
The Smart Growth Manual: a Review
Before getting to disclaimers and qualifications, let me say at the outset that I like this new book a lot. Written by new urbanist uberforce Andres Duany and his firm’s alumnus Jeff Speck with Mike Lydon, founder of the Street Plans Collective, The Smart Growth Manual (McGraw-Hill, 2009) comprises a concise and affordably priced...[read more]
The Smart Growth Manual: An Interview with author Mike Lydon
My copy of the Smart Growth Manual arrives today. If it's even half as good as Suburban Nation, it'll soon be bristling with post-it notes.Mike Lydon, co-author of the new Smart Growth Manual, is a member of the Next American Vanguard, a group of 34 young advocates, planners and policymakers representing America’s next generation of...[read more]
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“Did you hear about the event of a thread? Artist Anne Hamilton installed this during winter of 2013. I went with friends and it was a truly surreal experience. Less urbane than EMBARQ's examples, its was a true dance between space and humans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qPEcO0bTa0”
“Did you hear about the event of a thread? Artist Anne Hamilton installed this during winter of 2013. I went with friends and it was a truly surreal experience. Less urbane than EMBARQ's examples, its was a true dance between space and humans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qPEcO0bTa0”