Posts Tagged ‘new urbanism’
The Atlantic Cities | The Urbanist Case for Keeping D.C.’s Height Restrictions
"The argument that a limit on building height restricts housing supply and thus leads to higher prices is essentially the same argument made against Portland’s urban growth boundary. In both cases, it’s hogwash: if affordability were closely [...]
Shareable | Architectural Myopia: Designing for Industry, Not People
In the last half-century, the clear result of “architectural myopia” is buildings whose makers have been so concerned with the drama of their appearance that they fail on the most fundamental human criteria. They isolate people; they do not [...]
