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Monthly Archives: October 2015

Rethinking urban forms and ideals

Posted on October 8, 2015 by PietroOctober 8, 2015
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Over the last few weeks I have begun to rethink my ideals for the design of cities at the block level of scale. Yesterday my colleague Raffaele Pernice reviewed the history of modern urban design with our class. His slides … Continue reading →

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The Will to House!

Posted on October 5, 2015 by PietroOctober 5, 2015
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One of the maddening obstacles to making cities both interesting and affordable in the United States is the opposition to real urban housing. Back in 1920 there was good reason to fear density: we had just figured out how to deal … Continue reading →

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Reading the infrastructure

Posted on October 3, 2015 by PietroOctober 3, 2015
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Last week I assigned an unusual text for my students: the city of Suzhou itself. In this post I am going to show some examples of what I mean by reading the city as a text. My first examples are quite … Continue reading →

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Urbanism and Geopolitics

Posted on October 1, 2015 by PietroOctober 1, 2015
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Today I have just completed my first month in China. Time permitting I will get back to blog-postings that include lots of photos. But for today, I wanted to reflect on issues of urban politics and what that means for … Continue reading →

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