Whilst a grad student, I learned that the opinions on what urban design is, vary greatly between planners, architects, and landscape architects. It’s only fair to admit that most urban designers in the United States today are trained as architects. Some of them might argue that urban design is essentially a large-scale architectural exercise, where […]
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NACTO Urban Street Design Guide available 9/23/2013
About a year ago talk began about the NACTO* Urban Street Design Guide. This video indicates that it might be out next month! September 23, 2013 to be precise. You can even pre-order, if you are are into that sort of thing. This guide may be an important step in helping to adjust Federal transportation […]
Urban Trauma: How the City Deals with Disaster
The presence of trauma in the arts is nothing new. Its creation is therapeutic, and its legacy is even stronger: trauma art is some of the most famous artistic creations because they give meaning to an insurmountable feeling that is felt by an entire population. These people, who come together over the art, form a […]
A couple thoughts to start the week
Sandy threw off the planned posts I was going to write over the past month, so thought I would compile a couple shorter thoughts for sharing today… Designing for the Deaf Some of you may recall that a while ago Gallaudet (a Washington, DC based school for the deaf) came up with some design guidelines for the deaf. There was a […]
