How does your state excel?
There is an incredible amount of wasted effort in the profession. A fair amount of it is generated through the procedure of competitions, which is really a complete drain of intelligence. I don’t know any other profession that would tolerate this. At the same time you are important, we invite your thinking, but we also announce that there is an 80% chance that we will throw away your thinking and make sure that it is completely wasted.
—Rem Koolhaas on the competitive nature of urban design
Urbanized (Dir. by Gary Hustwit)
- every time I watch this movie my passion for urban planning is intensified x200
- I love the former mayor of Bogota Enrique Peñalosa, Candy Chang, Jan Gehl and of course, Amanda Burden!
- Participatory Design in Lo Barnechea (Santiago, Chile) is the most innovative and thoughtful advancement in affordable housing in my lifetime.
- I love the fact that the pedestrian/bike ways in Bogota are paved while the roadways are left muddy, pot-holed and puddled.
- Chinese architect Yung Ho Chang says that the rapid population and development of Beijing result in a place that he himself doesn't even recognize the city from one day to the next.
Nosotros debemos ser el cambio que queremos ver
—Gandhi
MEDIANERAS (film) utilizes the ‘bad planning’ of Buenos Aires as a metaphor throughout a missed connections love story.
—3.5/5 stars
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(Source: jennysmess, via theamericanlegacy)
when new jersey eats new york
(Source: streetofsoulangels, via theamericanlegacy)
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