My University of Miami studio is all over but the shouting. I'll be putting the students' three master plans and their corresponding building types online, but for now, here are a few drawings from one of the teams. The blocks over the rail yards have courtyard apartment buildings that provide...

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FROM spiked, the online publication of the Revolutionary Communist Party, some excerpts from the article New Orleans and the New Urban Vision, Progressive architects have left the building:... the ideas behind New Urbanism have seldom been intellectually destroyed, with detractors preferring to sneer at the clichéd attempt at Classicism (or...

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FALLINGWATER is one of those places that make me want to stay.* And I've been watching design: e2, a television program narrated by Fallingwater-visitor and Gehry-collaborator Brad Pitt about sustainable design (interesting that Fallingwater is near Pittsburgh). The show's pretty good, so it's too bad that when it comes to...

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BOSTON CITY HALL and the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex won national awards from the American Instiute of Architects. The second has been torn down and the first is apparently to be sold, and then torn down. The third thing they have in common is that the architects of both buildings assumed...

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Steven Greenhut writes in the Orange County Register,I'm referring to the ideology of Smart Growth and New Urbanism. Basically, these philosophies argue that traditional suburbia of the sort that has evolved since the 1950s is a terrible thing. They say it promotes isolation, hopelessness, despair, social turmoil, leads to deep...

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Subdivision Bans Wreath With Peace SignHomeowner Defies Board, Faces About $1000 in FinesBy Robert Weller, AP AP / Handout DENVER (Nov. 26) - A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some...

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Post-Katrina New Orleans - Illustration © 2006 Tulane University Magazine WE'RE coming up on 1 year and 3 months since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the city that time forgot. Almost two-thirds of the former residents of the city still have not returned, and many areas of the city continue...

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From the Portland Tribune:Matthew Slick said it straight. The 56-year-old Slick, who works as a data processor for a Pearl District law firm, wrote a letter to the Portland Tribune in response to a recent story that surveyed local architects and city planners on the city’s ugliest and most beautiful...

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The (Naked) City and the UndeadThe New York Times, Sunday November 26, 2006By Tom Wolfe CHIN up, tummy out, Aby Rosen, the 46-year-old German developer, owner of the Seagram Building and Lever House, was posing for pictures in front of 980 Madison Avenue barely one month ago when he grew...

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