Archive for Industrial
July 9, 2010 · Filed under Authenticity, Creative Cities, Diversity, Economics, Industrial, Revitalization, Waterfronts
Maybe Richard Florida has promoted the wrong creative class. In his model, artists beget coffee bars that make formerly dreary neighborhoods attractive to real estate developers, who lure lawyers and accountants into luxury loft buildings with names like “the Shoe Factory.” Maybe there’s another model, one that sucks a little of the class bias out of the formula and privileges artisans over artists, blue-collar jobs over white-collar ones. Give enough people who are passionate about making things the stability to invest in equipment and hire workers, and you might slow, or even reverse, the death spiral.
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April 26, 2010 · Filed under Big Box, Density, Energy, Industrial, Multi-Level Urbanism
A large chunk of Kansas City’s real estate lies 100 feet below ground, and offers a creative solution to global warming.
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May 28, 2009 · Filed under Industrial, Landscape, Nature, Parks, Safety
You come across them more and more in new housing districts: high-voltage parks. These remarkable, elongated strips of parkland, with high-voltage masts as their central features, often slice right through neighbourhoods. Leiden, Almere, Rotterdam and Dordrecht already boast such strips of land, while another fifty are planned around the country over the coming years. But how pleasant is it in a park beneath ominously crackling wires?
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March 31, 2009 · Filed under Creative Cities, Highways, Industrial, Infrastructure, Investment, Real Estate, Revitalization
The country has fallen on hard times, but those of us who love cities know we have been living in the dark ages for a while now. We know that turning things around will take more than just pouring money into shovel-ready projects, regardless of how they might boost the economy. Windmills won’t do it either. We long for a bold urban vision.
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March 18, 2009 · Filed under Industrial, Urbanization
Nothing is more fascinating to an architect and urban designer than a rapidly growing city. New buildings that continually transform the city‘s appearance, the changing lifestyle of inhabitants, the struggle to survive in the chaos we call the city. But how do you capture that convincingly? Film and video are commonly used, yet photography is better able to convey the speed of growth in images.
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February 21, 2009 · Filed under Architecture, Beauty, Health, Industrial
For those fascinated by the heroic American past, few activities are as thrilling as tooling around the foundries and factories from early in the last century, built as this country roared its way toward global pre-eminence.
In this regard, Detroit is rich beyond the telling, full of what an old English hymn calls “dark, satanic mills.”
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