Thursday, December 4, 2008

Vermont Town Turns to College in Bid to Guide Change - NYTimes.com

Vermont Town Turns to College in Bid to Guide Change - NYTimes.com

students input to town planning

Obituary: Brian Richards | Independent, The (London) | Find Articles at BNET

Obituary: Brian Richards Independent, The (London) Find Articles at BNET

B Richards traffic concepts (auto and non-) interaction with progressive architecture theory (archigram, et al). Obit by Dennis Sharp

Duany/Planning: codes vs community planning?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/dec/03/architecture-design
can community based planning (a la alexander?) incorporate progressive design and achieve the same ideals that 'new urbanism' claims to be the only path to?

Thursday, November 20, 2008

An Organic Farm Brings Agriculture and Architecture Together

http://chronicle.com/blogs/architecture/2621/guest-blogger-an-organic-farm-brings-agriculture-and-architecture-together

Thursday, June 12, 2008

LAURIE, check this out for background

Christopher Alexander on amazon
go down to the customer reviews for pretty good summary

Monday, May 5, 2008

writing

How he writes: On my laptop. I can’t do it any other way. I have to be able to type, pull up music and get references from the Internet. What made me brave about writing was the idea that with the computer I could cut and paste and think of writing as sculpture.

Monday, April 28, 2008

krier book

The Architectural Tuning of Settlements

Monday, April 21, 2008

'smart growth' movement
urban density vs suburban sprawl vs global warming (jerry brown in ca)

Monday, March 31, 2008

Monday, March 24, 2008

rudofsky
new orleans
arch for humanity
open source
do it yourself
adhocism
rudofsky