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June 13, 2006

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Al-Suhaymi House, Cario Egypt, 1648 - from ArchNet

Some new links of note round here, linked themselves by their sectional perspectives on the city. Exploring Wilshire Blvd., LA-CA, great way to create perspective on the megalopolis. Excellent history of Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC. Beach Bungalow preservation in Far Rockaway, Queens, NYC. Bond St Manhattan, then & now. Pedestrian danger zones in Ft Greene, Brooklyn, NYC. Check out the ITE.

Speaking of pedestrian danger zones, more exciting work from our NYC based pedestrian advocates. Aaron Naparstek, who played host to some hot tempers after the parking picnic in Park Slope. All I've experienced over there years is that New York City drivers have got to be the most entitled mother fuckers in the whole of the 5 Boros. Yea, the city's yours, you misanthropic apes. There isn't a bigger single health issue facing this City than Motor Vehicle chaos. Wasn't it just last week the Daily News reported on the links between test scores and motor vehicle pollution in this City? A complete lack of traffic violation enforcement by our Police Dept (read: City Hall) and a reckless disregard for respectable speed limits have left us with Monday morning papers declaring the previous weekends Car murder. Take a peak at yesterdays Post if you find that hard to believe. In addition to Aaron's great spokesmanship on the veritable Suicide that is Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, and Jan's redesign, Starts and Fits has been doing some nice posts on the explosive impatience many of us Pedestrian users of the city are feeling, as well as the formation of the New York Streets Renaissance Campaign, not too mention the always attentive, Transportation Alternatives. Bring back the Death o' Meter.

Since the retirement of London's double decker bus (but the View?!), the BendyBus/AccordianBus, has made its Ye Olde Debut, functionally interrogated with humour on Diamond Geezer. On deserted streets and the romance of running wild thru an empty London, from the Morning News. The London Architecture Biennale begins on June 16th. Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956-2006 begins June 15th at the Barbican in Londra. Finally, a hilarious and misguided screed from a fellow I normally find many things in common. The shoutdown, against the reclamation of roadspace by pedestrians and cars, spews this statist rant, "Like Leicester Square and Covent Garden, these mass confrontations between Leicester Square and bloated Tourists pickpockets, circus failures, and vunerable tourists plague what were quiet, nice, and respectable areas before all cars were banished, and the roads closed off. Now they are hell holes of litter and vulgarity in the day, and no-go drug haunts after midnight. Road closures like this are a big mistake, and have ruined many beauty spots."

Urban Forest Project coming soon, sponsered by Times Sq Alliance and the AIA New York Chapter. I'm all for Maples in Midtown?!?! Hilarious sketch of possible uses for the Brooklyn Detention Center, from Low Culture. So appropriate. Why can't we get ATM locations on every corner like Manhattan?! Why can't every new condo have a drug store and Chase outlet, like Manhattan?! We can, With Marty & Ratner!

Lifestyles of the Rich and Ugly in Palm Beach. Trendy modernist living, and filling in the arches of London. Historic preservation and revitalization in the American South. The Northeast still has the 'dumbest drivers'. Obviously, considering the Northeast issues the least amount of traffic violations in the country. Mayor Bloomberg's lovely little imagination at work again, SeaPlane! SeaPlane! A Brookings Institue study I missed on the old childhood friend, Mind the Gap: Disparities & Competitiveness in the Twin Cities. WQ review of the new book, Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War. Daily Dose tour of some sleek new rowhouses in Denver CO. Tropolism points to an exhibition on one my favorite architects, Alvaro Siza at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Paris plans new skyscrapers, barracks are built, lines drawn. City Journal provides Larry Silverstein with oral sex for his building of 7 World Trade. Admittedly, it is a pleasant buiding, but I can't but help question the author's navel gazing when it comes to Larry jacking the process by inserting Child. More WTC memorial goodness from Miss Rep. My newest and most consuming passion, Adobe Rowhouses, from which the image below relates, originally found on the Vernacular Architecture Forum. Now, don't forget, Free Ferries to Governors Island All Summer, GovIsland! A fantastic PhotoTour of Baltimore City USA.

Posted by jmarston at June 13, 2006 01:45 PM

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