Density Without High-Rises? Edward T. McMahon / May 11 2012 From Citiwire.net When it comes to land development, Americans famously dislike two things: too much sprawl and too much density. Over the past 50 years, the pendulum swung sharply in the direction of spread-out, single use, drive everywhere for everything, low density development. Now […]
Main Street Forum 2011
And while we lose buildings in New York in broad daylight…. From the Guardian Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark’s clock‘Cultural guerrillas’ cleared of lawbreaking over secret workshop in Pantheon Emilie Boyer King in ParisMonday November 26, 2007 It is one of Paris’s most celebrated monuments, a neoclassical masterpiece that has cast its shadow across the […]
Sometimes we get so involved in the minutia, we risk losing sight of the bigger picture. Rwanda: Let’s Celebrate Our Treasures From The New Times (Kigali)COLUMN18 November 2007Posted to the web 19 November 2007 By Frank KagaboKigali As Kigali City celebrated its centenary anniversary, a number of activities to commemorate the event were carried out […]
News From Yonkers City Council President, Chuck Lesnick Please join me on Monday morning Nov. 19th from 8 – 10 a.m. at the Harvard Club in Manhattan with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino for a seminar and panel discussion: “Rehabilitating Vacant Buildings into Affordable Housing.” Mayor Menino launched Boston’s abandoned buildings survey in 1997 and has […]
Can you imagine thousands of New Yorkers coming out to protest the proposed demolition of a building? And…would it do any good? From the New York Times: Athens Rally Defends Art Deco Building Thousands of protesters demonstrated yesterday in Athens to prevent the demolition of an Art Deco building near a new museum on the […]
SYNAGOGUES IN GERMANY: A VIRTUAL RECONSTRUCTION During the Nazi era, over 1,400 synagogues were destroyed. Through a student initiative at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, several synagogues have been virtually recreated using computer aided design, revealing a rich and diverse architectural history. Manfred Koob and Marc Grellert (Darmstadt University of Technology) and Carol Herselle […]
From the TimesOnlineWake up, ManhattanNew York’s skyline is one of the most distinctive in the world. But the city should stop trading on past gloriesTom Dyckhoff When did New York get so old? Le Corbusier once called the city “a geyser whose fountains leap and gush in continual renewal”, youthfully vigorous, of the Zeitgeist, while […]
NEW AUDIENCES FOR OLD HOUSES: BUILDING A FUTURE WITH THE PASTSeptember 28, 20078:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The Boston Athenaeum, 10 1/2 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108 The Nichols House Museum, in partnership with the Art History Department and Preservation Studies Program of Boston University and The Boston Athenaeum, invite you to attend a symposium […]
From Chuch Lesnick, Yonkers City Council President [email protected] Real Estate Meeting On Historical Building Demolition Real Estate Committee Chair, Dennis Robertson, and I (Real Estate Co-Chair) have scheduled a meeting for Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 7:30 PM in the Council Chambers, City Hall, Fourth Floor. We will be discussing a local law that was […]
