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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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Urban Archeology through a Dark Passage

by Tommy Manuel

On the heels of my inter­view with Har­ald Fin­ster, I dis­cov­ered this inter­est­ing orga­ni­za­tion based right here in New York City.

The descrip­tion from their web­site follows:

Dark Pas­sage was con­ceived in 1998 with the pur­pose of per­pet­u­at­ing the spirit of the long-defunct San Fran­cisco Suicide Club.

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Market to Rail Mixed-Use

by Tommy Manuel

In case you’re con­cerned about ade­quate space for rail projects, check this out.

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Manhattan Studio, Summer 2009

by Tommy Manuel

If you’re in New York City this sum­mer, Andrew Mac­Nair is orga­niz­ing a seminar/workshop address­ing the cur­rent chal­lenges our cities are fac­ing today and pos­si­ble alter­na­tive land­scape, archi­tec­tural, and urban solu­tions that may address these hid­den oppor­tu­ni­ties (see the descrip­tion below). Hope to see you there.
A unique, inten­sive 8 week research and design stu­dio for people […]

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Koolhaas on Dubai

by Tommy Manuel

Saw this blog on Kool­haas’ posi­tion on Dubai’s con­tin­ued via­bil­ity.
My com­ment below.
Cer­tainly Dubai’s demise isn’t likely to occur with any final­ity. The debate, mainly eco­nomic in nature, should take into greater con­sid­er­a­tion those issues Rory makes at the end of his post. I must admit that I’m a bit skep­ti­cal in regards to this actu­ally hap­pen­ing. What would […]

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Urban interventions via Google’s Street View

by Tommy Manuel

While  watch­ing James Kunstler’s TED Talk on the fail­ure of sub­ur­bia yes­ter­day I had an unre­lated thought  —  as often hap­pens  —  about Google’s Street View as a con­duit for guerilla archi­tec­ture and urban design.  Dur­ing his talk, Robin­son was show­ing slides of build­ings and urban set­tings he con­sid­ered objec­tion­able; the ubiq­ui­tous blank wall span­ning an entire city block and Pei […]

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