Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Monday, June 03, 2019

Five years ago today: "The more greatly a place conforms to post war auto centric design, the more injurious it is to people."

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Gahan, Rosenbarger set to go full frontal Pinocchio about their urbanism credentials when the Congress for the New Urbanism 27 meets in L...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Or Market Street: "Don’t let your Main Street -- or any street -- turn in to a cartoon version of Main Street."

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At least Nicolae wasn't hypocritical about it. The following link probably is more applicable to Jeffersonville's emerging downt...
Friday, February 01, 2019

100 years of Bauhaus: toward a universal language of design.

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It's a three-part documentary film, and well worth the time. Part 1 of 3 Part 2 of 3 Part 3 of 3
Wednesday, December 05, 2018

Spongebuild Squareparts: "I think accountants are designing these buildings.”

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It is a recurring question. Why do all new apartment buildings look the same? by Patrick Sisson ( Curbed ) The bland, boxy apartmen...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Not often in New Albany, but imagining "what the world might look like if the people who designed it – politicians, planners, developers and architects – were more diverse."

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OMG. Mayor Jeff Gahan's pathological need for complete civic thought control has manifested itself in the form of institutional inb...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Those drab "luxury" condos and apartments? "Policymakers, pretty much across the board, don't value design."

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I'm just trying to figure out why The Breakwater Lofts at Duggins Flats gets an exemption from the street spam ordinance. Those ...
Friday, August 25, 2017

The ways most states and cities set speed limits? A study shows "how these standard practices may actually lead to more speeding-related fatalities and injuries."

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Jeeebus, what a week. I believe there are a substantial number of people locally who are willing to assert that the sun rises in the west...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

The New Jersey Swamp Dragons? "I wanted kids wearing Swamp Dragons T-shirts to Knicks games."

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This one's a fun read. In reality, "Swamp Dragons" as a name doesn't seem so far-fetched in the context of internationa...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

"How East Germany influenced design."

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Here's an old East German joke. A citizen orders a Trabant car. The salesman tells him to come back to pick it up in nine years. The ...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Design as protest: “What does disaster capitalism look like on black women’s bodies?”

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If, by chance, I'm not elected mayor, it's becoming increasingly clear to me which direction I'll be traveling in future endeavo...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Still confused about "road diets" and street redesign, Irv? Take a video tour and LEARN.

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What? You mean just like in this document ? Wow! Even your grandchildren can watch a video ... and comprehend facts. A Wonderfully C...
Sunday, July 05, 2015

"Why are we so reliant on air conditioning?"

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Our house is 115 years old, and used to have some of the design features explained herein, especially the windows. At some point the vinyl w...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Finance, design, suburbs and "The Growth Ponzi Scheme."

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It doesn't get much clearer than this. In fact, the Strong Towns website in large measure constitutes a shovel-ready campaign platfo...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Mueller Community in Austin, Texas: "Planners minimize the supremacy of the automobile and shape the environment around pedestrians."

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I'm reminded of Tempelhofer Park in Berlin , where an airport was transformed into a commons. In this instance, it's a community. ...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Lower speed limits won't solve this. TRAFFIC MUST BE SLOWED BY SAFER STREET DESIGN.

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Yet another essay by Marohn that is required reading for all Speck street network opinion dispensers, yay or nay, including the otherwise so...
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Friday, November 07, 2014

A painting project at BSB, and other NABC news.

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The typical NABC weekend no longer resembles a fire drill, and there is time to catch up on a few agenda items. One of them is (finally) ...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

On the Stroad, Ferguson and the predictability of auto-oriented decline.

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And what is a stroad? A STROAD is a street/road hybrid and, besides being a very dangerous environment (yes, it is ridiculously dangerous...
Tuesday, June 03, 2014

"The more greatly a place conforms to post war auto centric design, the more injurious it is to people."

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Are we bugging you with facts? We don't mean to bug you. More Narrative ( Rational Urbanism ) There are conceptual links which, so...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

"If it's designed to make people go fast, they will."

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New Albany's street grid is designed for traffic speed incompatible with the stabilization of neighborhoods and the expansion of the dow...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Speaking of infill housing for those vacant lots ...

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Mr. and Mrs. Confidential have decided this would be our chosen design if we were to downsize and build a house on one of the vacant lot...