Comments on: the city we have

By: a quick and unnecessary defense of density against some chart – mammoth // building nothing out of something

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:46:29 +0000

[...] this is kind of an odd post, given our frequent arguments for the importance of understanding, working with, and valuing the American suburb. We like to hold these things in tension — esteem for the [...]

By: “for every pile there is a pit” – mammoth // building nothing out of something

Mon, 24 May 2010 10:03:58 +0000

[...] and “positive” (useful) categories, but it does serve to extend mammoth’s consistent argument that it is vital to work with the city we have, to not make plans which wish away the parts of the [...]

By: re-inhabited circle-k’s - mammoth // building nothing out of something

re-inhabited circle-k’s - mammoth // building nothing out of something — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:08:36 +0000

[...] dollar stores, and Bridgett’s Last Laugh Karaoke and Fish Fry.” More evidence of the suburb as a locus for informality in the American city. See the full slideshow at Places, and a map of the locations Mann is studying in Phoenix and [...]

By: ownership culture - mammoth // building nothing out of something

ownership culture - mammoth // building nothing out of something — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:24:13 +0000

[...] those options is best, but I will say that Stephen and I have been trying to develop a consistent argument that it is best to do architecture (even paper architecture) in a way that, at the very least, [...]

By: on finance - mammoth // building nothing out of something

on finance - mammoth // building nothing out of something — Sun, 31 May 2009 20:22:38 +0000

[...] landscapes. The design of the mechanisms by which our tactical interventions (or unfortunate master plan extravaganzas) are funded has deep and profound implications, not just for the binary question of [...]

By: 49 utopias - mammoth

49 utopias - mammoth — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:04:14 +0000

[...] agree with all this. Big Bang Urbanism – what a great term. Those sort of ground up utopian visions are the lifted [...]