Instinct probably tells you that you’ll pay a lot more to live in a downtown apartment, above a grocery store, next to a bar strip and within walking distance of your work place than you will to settle into a comparable home in a bedroom community outside of the city. As this model of compact urban living grows more popular – and every new housing projection reaffirms that it is – walkable places are also growing more expensive.
THE INTERTWINE ALLIANCE - Portland OR
A Collaborative Partnership
Access to parks and natural areas close to home and work has become increasingly important to our communities’ health and well being. The Intertwine Alliance is bringing together local agencies and groups to increase investment in The Intertwine. Alliance members are working together on five Alliance Initiatives: acquisition, active transportation, conservation, conservation education and the regional system.
A bond forged in storm-ravaged New Orleans between actor Brad Pitt and a local architecture firm is bearing fruit in Kansas City — and may show the path forward to reusing dozens of empty schools.
(via Brad Pitt’s foundation to help redevelop Bancroft School)
Check out this article about the GOOD Ideas for Cities forum held in Portland on Thursday. ADX approached PNCA Collaborative Design to collaborate on our Marshall High School plan. It turned out pretty awesome. So then we helped present! Looking forward to see what comes of this.
Gas taxes have funded our roads for decades. But our fuel-efficient cars and tax-allergic Congress are leading to an infrastructure break-down.
Why Your Prius Will Bankrupt Our Highways
Brought to my attention by Dustin Freemont (PNCA Collaborative Design student)
… if you want to start your own service, you should develop it with the future participants and root it in the local context…
Robert Moses v. Jane Jacobs; Rationalism meets advocacy planning.
Ice Cube talks about L.A., the Eames, and architecture
Ice Cube drives Inglewood blvd. describing the Los Angeles that he knows. He talks of landmarks like The Forum, Five Torches, Cockatoo Inn, Brolly Hut, and Watts Towers. He refers to the 110 as “Gangsta Highway”. Cube says coming from South Central LA teaches you how to be resourceful.
The Revolution In American Agriculture (1970)
A painting titled “Farm of the Future” by David Meltzer, which was commissioned by the National Geographic Society, and created under the influence of the U.S.D.A. The painting shows a futuristic farm that consists of crop dusters, cow condos, and a centralized glass domed control center. A generic pristine city can be seen in the distance, nestled between majestic mountains and the futuristic farm. It seems as if the Jetsons could descend any moment by aerocar. The painting illustrates a common view of the future, in which technology frees society from current or anticipated problems and demands. It is a utopian view of both the rural industrial farm, and the clean industrial city. The two exist seemingly in harmony, though in complete isolation from one another. --Shana Berger
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