Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from last Thursday’s Part 1 .]
In Part 1 of our tour of 15 housing projects from hell, via the passionate posters at the funky Web site Oobject, we indicted the architects, led by Le Corbusier, for throwing up concrete stack after stack of monoliths.
Can you too be an urban planner?
Just try these plans and specs
Yet [...]
If architecture cannot make us into better human beings and societies, can it make us into worse ones? Can large monolithic high-rise blocks dehumanize us? As presented on the funky Web site Oobject, herewith are 15 housing projects from hell, through which – aside from being appalled that architects, builders and government inflicted these upon [...]
Once before, I posted seriously that you are what you live in:
I has a haddock
In Jungian dream interpretation, the house is the self:
A house in a dream generally speaks of one’s psychological house, the house of the “soul.” We often see different homes that we’ve lived in. Ask yourself, if the home [...]
“Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.“
– T. S. Eliot
Posted anything worth stealing, David?
Faithful readers know I often draw on the Economist or the Wall Street Journal – with full attribution, to be sure! – for stories that form the kernel of these essays. Judging from two recent pieces, the peeping is returned:
I spy with [...]
Every now and then, the little guys win one, and when they do, as in this day-in-the-life farce reported in a recent Washington Post article, the resulting splutters reveal some folks’ unbalanced view of rules – namely that they’re things I write and you obey.
To many in Old Town Alexandria, the sex shop that [...]
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