{"id":492,"date":"2009-06-25T13:57:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T19:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2009-06-25T13:58:36","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T19:58:36","slug":"readings-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/06\/readings-3\/","title":{"rendered":"readings (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Fantastic Journal’s post Lines of Defense<\/a>, which I would cheapen if I summarized it.\u00a0 More nostalgia, I suppose.<\/p>\n

2. The NYTimes on Brussels<\/a>, “traumatized” by the “dreadful architecture” of the European Union headquarters, and how planners hope to rectify the rift between bureaucrats and residents.\u00a0 What a direct metaphor for the conflict between the old and the new political arrangements, complete with lack of obvious villain or saint:<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were drilling for piles, about a year ago, and they failed to shore up the neighboring homes,\u201d said Alexandre Smets, 32, whose dental laboratory is in a home now held up by massive steel buttresses. Reflecting Brussels residents\u2019 phlegmatic side, neither he nor the building\u2019s other tenants plan to move out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

3. sevensixfive has a great post entitled “Port Covington: The Ghost of the Masterplan in Tinkerer’s Paradise”<\/a>, part of his continuing series of ruminations on spaces in Baltimore’s Middle Branch.\u00a0 Lost railroads, a forgotten Cigar Ship, and abandoned big box retailers share psychic and physical space with banal New Urbanist development plans; the conflation of the fantastical and the mundane that permeates the Middle Branch series is not only good, but necessary, as it is true.<\/p>\n

4. Transport Politic compares<\/a> a proposed high-speed rail line between St. Louis and Chicago with the massively successful route between Lyon and Paris and concludes that a few well-funded projects are better than many half-hearted efforts.<\/p>\n

5. Via Landscape+Urbanism<\/a>, Kent State University’s Shrinking Cities Institute<\/a>, particularly their Vacant Lot Re-use Pattern Booklet.<\/p>\n

6. Varnelis speculates on the death of the suburbs<\/a>, as caused by the accumulation of small deteriorations in infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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