Tag Archives: urban design
the most salient landscape feature of Los Angeles
has to be the parking lot. “It’s estimated that there are three nonresidential parking spaces for every car in the United States. That adds up to almost 800 million parking spaces, covering about 4,360 square miles, an area larger than … Continue reading
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Tagged Eran Ben-Joseph, Renzo Piano, Robert Irwin, urban design, urban planning
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Nick Horman’s Incredible Tape Ball
Yesterday’s post on the High Line provoked some interesting discussion on parks, which reminded me of this little movie MB Maher took last fall in New York, a scene he stumbled upon in Central Park. Artist and pickle impresario Nick … Continue reading
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Tagged Central Park, Horman's Best Pickles, MB Maher, Nick Horman, urban design
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Dim View of the High Line
Yesterday 5/15/11 The New York Times published in their Opinion section “Bringing The High Line Back To Earth” by Witold Rybczynski, professor of urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Rybczynski feels compelled to warn us that the brilliant success … Continue reading