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No Urban America Without Rural America

by Tommy Manuel

I live a dou­ble life.
Most recently that life has been spent amid a cacoph­ony of rum­bling trains on the ele­vated sub­way line out­side my win­dow, the din of car horns from the drive-through fast food restau­rant below my build­ing, shrieks from emer­gency vehi­cles, bangs and clashes from the con­struc­tion work on Columbia’s new cam­pus across the […]

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Cities are BLANK

by Tommy Manuel

Source: Orig­i­nally posted at Aribra.com
Cities are _____. Cities are organic. They are like plants. Cities are like ecosys­tem. Cities are jun­gles. Cities are like bac­te­r­ial colonies. Cities are fortresses against the per­ils of nature. Cities are machines, engines of cul­ture and progress. Cities are like libraries, or like a liv­ing museum.  Cities are amusement […]

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UPDATE: Sinclair on Tugboats, Tankers, and the Office for Social Innovation

by Tommy Manuel

The always reli­able Google News Alert deliv­ered a rel­e­vant arti­cle to my post above.  John Cooper, Ph.D., direc­tor of the Emer­gency Pre­pared­ness Demon­stra­tion at MDC Inc., a Chapel Hill-based non­profit, penned this arti­cle, Dis­as­ter Plan­ning at the Ground Level in North Carolina’s News & Observer this morn­ing.  Inter­est­ingly, a vic­tim of Hur­ri­cane Floyd noted in Cooper’s arti­cle that it […]

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Steven M. Johnson for National Infrastructure Jester

by Tommy Manuel

I came across Alli­son Arieff’s NY Times piece, Search­ing for Value in Ludi­crous Ideas this morn­ing. Need­less to say I was excited about the focus of the arti­cle and how it relates to the premise for the Pam­phlet Archi­tec­ture sub­mis­sion I’m work­ing on. Arieff’s arti­cle explores the value in ludi­crous ideas through the work of Steven […]

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Pamphlet Architecture Competition: working abstract

by Tommy Manuel

What if our infra­struc­ture, designed to pro­vide us with con­ve­nient, effi­cient, and faster ser­vices and goods, was actu­ally mak­ing us awk­ward, unpro­duc­tive, and slow?  The United State’s infra­struc­ture has gar­nered much polit­i­cal, eco­nom­i­cal, plan­ning, and design atten­tion of late. This elab­o­rate sys­tem  –  4 mil­lion miles of roads, 600,000 bridges, 26,000 miles of com­mer­cially nav­i­ga­ble water­ways, 11,000 […]

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