Architecture & Urbanism – Landscape Urbanism, New Urbanism, Architectural Pragmatism & The Real City

Left: Archigram, Auto Environments.  [Credit: via http://www.archigram.net]  Right: UrbanLab, Eco-Boulevards. [Credit: UrbanLab/Martin Felsen and Sarah Dunn]

Tim Love has written an extraordinary, sophisticated and MUST READ article entitled “Paper Architecture, Emerging Urbanism” in Design Observer that discusses, with admirable finesse, the challenges facing current architecture practice and education, urbanism, real-estate developers, city government, architectural dreamers, and all of those urban dwellers who don’t, somehow, fall into any of those categories. The article includes, among many other considerations, the impact of global and urban climate change on urban life and thinking.  Speaking of thinking, make sure that you put on your thinking-caps, for the article, justifiably, requires a good deal of reflection (and, hopefully, more) on the part of the reader.  Nevertheless, read this, you must.
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The Economics of Response to Climate Change – The Dollars & Sense of Solutions to Global Warming

Photograph by Yoshikazu Nema; Artwork by Yuken Teruya

Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist (2008), in his wide-ranging, very precise and honestly excellent article, entitled “Building a Green Economy” in the Magazine section of The New York Times (online) discusses with astounding and very welcome clarity not only the truly catastrophic environmental and economic consequences of global warming but also, and more importantly, now, the clear, reasoned and viable economic measures that can, should and will, given the necessary political will, offer solutions to this extremely serious and far-reaching problem.  Krugman’s article is not short, and it, for reason, requires some thinking on the part of the reader, but it is definitely worth every minute that you spend reading it.

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The Economics of Response to Climate Change – The Dollars & Sense of Solutions to Global Warming

Photograph by Yoshikazu Nema; Artwork by Yuken Teruya

Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist (2008), in his wide-ranging, very precise and honestly excellent article, entitled “Building a Green Economy” in the Magazine section of The New York Times (online) discusses with astounding and very welcome clarity not only the truly catastrophic environmental and economic consequences of global warming but also, and more importantly, now, the clear, reasoned and viable economic measures that can, should and will, given the necessary political will, offer solutions to this extremely serious and far-reaching problem.  Krugman’s article is not short, and it, for reason, requires some thinking on the part of the reader, but it is definitely worth every minute that you spend reading it.

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