tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5079297043552042968.post1450005418152805974..comments2024-03-28T14:02:40.132-04:00Comments on Discovering Urbanism: Is the Broadacre City Worth Reviving?Daniel Nairnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14127732825472374125noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5079297043552042968.post-17463199659600591092021-06-24T01:31:47.833-04:002021-06-24T01:31:47.833-04:00Panda Express Redemption Code. You can also get th...Panda Express Redemption Code. You can also get the Panda Express customer service department contact details and useful links.<br /><a href="https://surveyprize.net/www-pandaexpress-com-survey-panda-express-survey/" rel="nofollow"> Panda Express Survey <br /> </a><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12498267310704682611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5079297043552042968.post-40010206224563101832010-11-08T15:33:10.733-05:002010-11-08T15:33:10.733-05:00"While much has been written about the implic..."While much has been written about the implications of urban farming for agricultural production, public policy, and food as an element of culture, little has been written about the potentially profound implications for the shape and structure of the city itself."<br />...<br />"Given contemporary interest in urban agriculture, these propositions offer compelling alternatives to what has become the canonical history of city form." <br /><br />Waldheim makes these statements in the essay you've linked, but I was under the impression that the reason the movement didn't have much to say about the implications for the shape of the city is because the implications were intended to be very minimal -- that gardening would be integrated into an existing dense urban fabric where space permitted -- not because proponents had simply neglected to consider the consequences. <br /><br />Wright's Broadacre City on the other hand does not even depict existing urban areas. If someone living in an urban area wanted to live that "compelling alternative," however, it would be an easy enough matter to purchase a home on a one-acre suburban plot and commence gardening/farming. The allure of subsistence farming as an occupation, alas, is not enough to coax even the staunchest locavore out of their perch in the city.CGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5079297043552042968.post-63806017933705353262010-11-07T09:43:36.512-05:002010-11-07T09:43:36.512-05:00Daniel - Sadly, your critique of Waldheim reflects...Daniel - Sadly, your critique of Waldheim reflects a much larger malaise that afflicts the GSD's architecture and planning programs. And I say this as a second-year planner there. The architects and designers who control the program value the abstract, the visionary, and the iconoclastic above all else. For them the built environment is an object of metaphysical speculation, a thing to be re-imagined, re-interpreted, and re-purposed. Ultimately, it is a vehicle for their own egos. It seems there is little interest in investigating the design failures as experienced by everyday people and developing responsive solutions. In other words, you ask an architect here to design a better egg carton and he'll give you a re-imagined egg.<br />I see this disregard translated into student architecture projects, most of which aren't recognizable as anything made for human habitation. <br /><br />The obsession with newness, the disregard for (or at best incidental contact with) earthly concerns, and the accompanying layer of inscrutable jargon creates an insular discourse more akin to theology than science. Accordingly, the school produces not so much designers as priests, convinced that the creation and interpretation of the physical environment is their exclusive providence.<br /><br />I suspect that many students, and maybe even some faculty (though mostly in the planning department) share my feelings, but these sentiments rarely come to the surface. It's a shame, because of anything needs to be re-imagined here, its the GSD.eparnoreply@blogger.com