Hobbies
I remember reading "somewhere" that when asked to name their favorite recreational activity, a lot of people say shopping.
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Sep 25, 2003
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Three Rules of Urban Design
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The essence of "city-ness"
My own favorite posts
- "Client"? or "Supplicant"?
- "Crimogenic?" No, Bunkogenic.
- "Jam tomorrow" but never Jam today
- "Open space"
- "The future is classical" --- Yes, but site plan trumps architecture
- A model from Paris for the Viaduct
- And moralizing about urban form comes from both left and right
- Anti-"collectivists" should stop talking
- Archibabble
- Bauhaus in Tel Aviv & Pedestrian-Oriented Buildings
- Boiling a zoning code down to the basics
- Can a starchitect be a good urbanist?
- Deaf Smith County Peanut Butter
- Disney Hall: The Good, The Bad and...the Beautiful?
- Does it offer any guidance except thunderingly abstract pieties?
- Don't look to higher oil prices as a savior
- Dost thou blog?
- From the trenches indeed
- Gideon Strauss likes "the book" too.
- Hello Columbus to the I-670 Cap
- How basic are visual preferences in landscape?
- in medias res
- John Young Architect reviews the first edition of City Comforts
- Koolhaas library design: Making excuses for a bad decision?
- Koolhaas Library: Pre-construction analysis
- Libeskind's "Spiral Extension"
- LID for the Viaduct
- Look what I built
- Michael Blowhard likes City Comforts, the Book
- Modern urbanism starts with parking
- Mumbo jumbo to you but widom to your neighbor --- what else is new?
- Neighborhoods with Underground Wiring are More Valuable
- No question about it.
- Parking is the tail that wags the building
- Perfect Information, under an umbrella
- Phil langdon's opinion of City Comforts
- Pre-fab housing -- why not?
- Starbucks created an industry
- Terry Teachout,too, likes City Comforts, the Book
- The "default position" is a rebuttable presumption
- the "Three Rules" chapter from "City Comforts"
- The destruction of Paris
- The future may be more ordinary than we can possibly imagine.
- The irreducible essence of city-ness
- The Retrofit is the only politically-realistic solution.
- The sidewalk has no ideology
- The theory of "City Comforts" -- in a nutshell: "Brilliance innovates, genius borrows."
- There is life after the Three Rules
- This animated GIF illustrates what animates the city. Now how do I improve it?
- Urban planning starts with the location of the parking lot
When questioned what they do during their leisure evening hours, most individuals will respond with
a list of the television programs they watched.
Posted by: Sheri | Sep 25, 2003 at 08:26 PM
Shopping is a pathetic hobby. Television-watching as the evening's activity demonstrates the dumbing-down of America.
Posted by: Aaron | Sep 26, 2003 at 06:18 AM
I think you've been spammed! - Might be a good time to block casino from accessing your site folks!
Posted by: Ian | Oct 06, 2003 at 07:44 AM
Thanks, Ian...I have been away for a bit and this spam does raise an interesting issue for longer absences.
Is a blog like a horse --- needs daily attention and exercise?
Posted by: David Sucher | Oct 06, 2003 at 09:16 AM