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Spillway: In praise of Beech Street (2009)
"There's also a personal meaning to the place for me. I have very early memories of being driven through Beech Street, and it had a powerful effect on me. For me, it screamed modernity, the first pioneering signs of a new city. It was strangely comforting - the warm orange glow of the sodium light, the rhythm of the coloured panels, the streaming lights, like the Enterprise going into warp speed. It was a snapshot of a city that had passed the period of even partial coexistence with the landscape, and was now a total structure - a cityscape. It still means to me a kind of density watershed, a Change of State in the city fabric like melting or sublimation."
2009  20th.century  2nd.street.tunnel  affect  architecture  barbican  beech.street  brutalism  building  cityscape  delicious-export  england  george.lucas  london  losangeles  memory  metropolis  metropolitan  modernism  modernity  nyc  roads  scifi  star.trek  surface  the.city.below  the.city.in.the.sky  the.high.line  tongues.of.the.city  transit  transport  tunnels  uk  urbandesign  urbanism  urbanplanning  walking  will.wiles 
march 2010 by jannon
"The elements of networked urbanism " Adam Greenfield's Speedbird
I am not sure--but these might make the most sense as an overlay on top of the more traditional ideas of urban form. I mean--what about los angeles and its incredible frustrations as a browsable city? how can it be a good "networked" city without improved browsability as well? furthermore you could say that los angeles has always been about known-object search: we've only migrated from yellowpages & thomas guide to yelp & google maps here...I'm not sure that the questions of aesthetics and social justice that are at least partially addressed by some more traditional urban forms are adequately accounted for in this model.
adam.greenfield  cities  city  city2.0  citylife  consumerism  delicious-export  design  future  information  innovation  intelligence  interaction  internet  networked.urbanism  networks  research  service  services  social.network  socialnetwork  theory  ubicomp  urban  urban.computing  urban.design  urbandesign  urbanism  urbanismo 
march 2009 by jannon
Outdoor Living Rooms' Bring Touches of Cheer to Central Los Angeles
l.a.'s bus stops are a perfect example of how America is stupid about public transit. no route maps, no bus schedules, often not even a bench.
architecture  bus.stops  delicious-export  design  landscape  livability  losangeles  low.income.communities  outdoors  pedestrian  south.central  street.furniture  streets  transportation  urbandesign  urbanplanning 
april 2008 by jannon
NYT | Mayors, Looking to Cities' Future, Are Told It Must Be Green
I wouldn't mind working on a policy level with something like the conference of mayors. Seriously there's got to be some kind of organizational team there. I wouldn't mind being a part of it. hmm.
america  change  cities  delicious-export  development  economics  environment  future  livability  mayors  policy  politics  pollution  sustainability  technology  urbandesign  urbanplanning  walking 
november 2007 by jannon
The State of City Swimming Pools in Los Angeles - 2004
if I ever ran for any public office, the foundations of my platform would be: - better public swimming pools - bikepaths! - public transit - community gardens
citylife  decay  delicious-export  disrepair  losangeles  pools  swimming  urbandesign  urbanplanning 
november 2006 by jannon

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