tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5079297043552042968.post7133457760366581467..comments2024-03-18T06:18:29.163-04:00Comments on Discovering Urbanism: John Nolen: New Ideals in PlanningDaniel Nairnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14127732825472374125noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5079297043552042968.post-41768314978804518232022-08-26T00:03:35.919-04:002022-08-26T00:03:35.919-04:00Good reading yyour postGood reading yyour postNorth Charleston Carpet Installationhttps://www.carpet-installers.com/us/carpet-repair-south-carolina/north-charleston-carpet-installation.shtmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5079297043552042968.post-27757771717265595292010-06-26T21:23:27.964-04:002010-06-26T21:23:27.964-04:00It is interesting that even in 1919, an urban plan...It is interesting that even in 1919, an urban planner was bemoaning the rising homogeneity of cities across the American landscape. It is a refrain we hear just as loudly now.The Looshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10167238649161648522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5079297043552042968.post-100896584699058592010-06-23T05:56:35.922-04:002010-06-23T05:56:35.922-04:00Daniel, nice book summary and glad to hear you'...Daniel, nice book summary and glad to hear you're into the old books too! Might other books of the pre-highway era hold particular usefulness to us now as we seek to de-emphasize cars and re-affirm the primacy of non-car modes? Perhaps we will see some of the books and concepts of that era return to prominence for this reason?LHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02127870226377459490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5079297043552042968.post-1040190064499135432010-06-22T22:22:55.086-04:002010-06-22T22:22:55.086-04:00Yes...what an interesting mixture of values. (Kud...Yes...what an interesting mixture of values. (Kudos for tip-toeing across this retrospective without indulging into easy 21st century urbanist critique.) I admire that about Olmstead and Nolen's work: how easily their work communicates their values and loves. Those values continue to be manifested today. <br /><br />I'm about as pro-grid as anybody, hah, but the principal thing that communicates to me about Nolen's curvilicious pre-war suburbs are their fantastic openness and interconnectedness. They really are places that invite public use, places of well-being for citizens. They destroy all sense of orientation, sure, but their draw teaches you to read them through experience first, and they really invite you to learn them. <br /><br />This is a big difference from today's residential streets. Walking on Nolen's streets you are always in a shared public space. You are in a community open to interchange. Here in Charlotte, Nolen's suburb Myers Park attracts scores of users on a daily basis. Far more people enjoy walking, running or cycling down Nolen's shady avenues around the clock than on the streets of our gridded Uptown. There's a reason we call the Myers Park cycling route the Booty Loop. Drinking fountains on front yards are not rare in Myers Park and surrounding neighborhoods. <br /><br />It is somewhat interesting for me to witness how a seemingly quiet (and, yes, wealthy) environment like Myers Park can attract so much diversity and conveyance of public life. All classes and kinds of people proliferate here in these public places. The events and activities that take place in Myers Park are central to Charlotte civic life. You could say Myers Park also radiates civic life. It truly is that kind of center in our city. Not many neighborhoods can claim that.Eric Orozcohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00320742140050171881noreply@blogger.com