The Death and Life of Great American Cities The Lonely Crowd The Lonely Crowd is a 1950 sociological analysis by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney. It is considered—along with White Collar: The American Middle Classes, written by Riesman's friend and colleague C. Wright Mills—to be a landmark study of American character.[1] Description[edit] Riesman, et al. identify and analyze three main cultural types: tradition-directed, inner-directed, and other-directed. They trace the evolution of society from a tradition-directed culture—one that moved in a direction defined by preceding generations. This earliest social type was succeeded by people who were inner-directed. After the Industrial Revolution in America had succeeded in developing a middle-class state, institutions that had flourished within the tradition-directed and the inner-directed social framework became secondary to daily life. As Riesman wrote, "The other-directed person wants to be loved rather than esteemed", not necessarily to control others but to relate to them.
Rational Urbanism - A site for people who love cities Streetsblog New York City Alison and Peter Smithson Robin Hood Gardens housing complex, Poplar, East London, completed 1972 English architects Alison Smithson (22 June 1928 – 16 August 1993) and Peter Smithson (18 September 1923 – 3 March 2003) together formed an architectural partnership, and are often associated with the New Brutalism (especially in architectural and urban theory).[1][2] Peter was born in Stockton-on-Tees in north-east England, and Alison was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. They met while studying architecture at Durham University and married in 1949. Together, they joined the architecture department of the London County Council before establishing their own partnership in 1950. Work[edit] They first came to prominence with Hunstanton School which used some of the language of high modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe but in a stripped back way, with rough finishes and deliberate lack of refinement. Built projects[edit] Garden building, St Hilda's College, Oxford (1968) Their built projects include: Unbuilt proposals[edit]
Smart Growth: A Missing Metric | Jefferson Policy Journal In the lead article Peter Katz (profiled here) elaborates his thoughts on fiscal analytics and growth management. He starts with the argument, which I have embraced, that the fiscal impact of development projects is better understood by comparing revenues and costs per acre. He goes on to suggest that local governments adopt what he terms “the missing metric” — the number of years it takes property taxes to pay back a a municipality’s up-front investment to accommodate a new development project — as a tool for determining the kind of growth a community wants to encourage. Citing examples from Sarasota, Fla., Katz contends that the taxes generated by a particular mixed-use tower downtown would pay back the public investment within three years. By comparison, a two- and three-story garden apartment complex near the Interstate would take 42 years to pay back. Fiscal impact is not the only factor municipalities consider when reviewing a development project. Email this author
BLDGBLOG Henri Lefebvre Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Pour les articles homonymes, voir Lefebvre. Henri Lefebvre Henri Lefebvre en 1971 Œuvres principales La Vie quotidienne dans le monde moderne (1968)Le droit à la ville (1968)Du rural à l'urbain (1970)La Révolution urbaine (1970)La Production de l'espace (1974) Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Il a étudié la philosophie à la Sorbonne, diplômé en 1920. Son évolution au cours des années 1950 concernant la théorie marxiste, en particulier son rejet sans concession du stalinisme, lui vaut d’être exclu du PCF en 1958. En 1960, il signe le manifeste des 121 pour le droit à l'insoumission dans la guerre d'Algérie. En 1962, il devient professeur de sociologie à l'Université de Strasbourg, puis à l'Université de Paris X-Nanterre de 1965 à 1968. Dans son hommage, le magazine Radical Philosophy écrit : « Le plus prolifique des intellectuels marxistes français, est décédé dans la nuit du 28 au 29 juin 1991, peu après son 90e anniversaire.
Balancing growing up and growing out Waterloo Region Record In January, the Ontario Municipal Board made a decision that is one of the biggest threats facing our community. It ruled against the Region of Waterloo's official plan and in favour of a few land developers with financial interests in continuing the outdated urban sprawl of the 20th century. Fortunately, regional council is standing up for our community by appealing the decision to the Ontario Divisional Court. Peter Shawn Taylor's recent columns seem to suggest he believes that the region is simply being a poor sport in fighting this decision. In an alarming turn of events, our regional government has now said it has reason to believe inappropriate interaction may have occurred between the Ontario Municipal Board and the primary witness for the developers fighting the plan. There's a lot of support in our community for the region's official plan. The region's official plan strikes the right balance between growing up and growing out. This fight is far from over.
Emergent Urbanism, or ‘bottom-up planning’ I was asked to write an article around ‘bottom-up planning’ by Architectural Review Australia a while ago. It was published in the last issue, and I’m re-posting here. ‘Bottom-up’ is hardly the most elegant phrase, but I suspect you know what I mean. Either way, I re-cast it in the article as ‘emergent urbanism’ which captured a little more of the non-planning approaches I was interested in (note also the blog of same name, which I didn’t know about beforehand). It partly concerns increased transparency over the urban planning process but also, and perhaps more interestingly, how citizens might be able to proactively engage in the creation of their cities. And for those of you outside Australia, there are a few subtitles required to read this. And regarding this broad idea of emergent urbanism, a particularly inspirational recent project over this way has been ‘Renew Newcastle’ (Newcastle, New South Wales that is) initiated by Marcus Westbury. Yimby = Yes In My Backyard
Kristin Ross Kristin Ross (born 1953[1]) is a professor of comparative literature at New York University. She is primarily known for her work on French literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries.[2] Life and work[edit] For Fast Cars, Clean Bodies, Ross was awarded a Critic's Choice Award and the Lawrence Wylie Award for French Cultural Studies. Ross has also translated several works from French including Jacques Ranciere's The Ignorant Schoolmaster. References[edit] External links[edit] By Kristin Ross About Kristin Ross "Red and black" A review of May '68 and its Afterlives in Radical Philosophy, (May/June 2003)." Life in a Mobile Nation - Room for Debate The ‘Serial Move’ Is an Insidious Ideal Alan Ehrenhalt, author, "The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City" It’s tempting to envision a series of hometowns tailored to an affluent American’s life cycle. But one city really can work for every generation. Not Cutting Ties, but Adding Them Kevin Noble Maillard, law professor and author To judge families on a single detail of “stability” overlooks the diverse ways that kinfolk connect and survive.
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