Comments on: “No recipe for urban funk”

By: What I’m reading today « west north

What I’m reading today « west north — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:36:16 +0000

[...] into air” capitalism itself. There are ways around this, and I’m excited to see that authors like Matt Hern get this and are doing something about this: shutting down streets and setting up collectives to [...]

By: payton

payton — Mon, 17 May 2010 08:21:21 +0000

You're quite welcome, Neal. In almost all North American contexts, we're certainly best off promoting the three-legged DDD stool. In some other contexts -- like this boring little mall stuck underneath a bunch of sterile apartment towers in Hong Kong -- hyperdensity creates diversity, even in a design vacuum. It may be ugly, it may be neither flexible nor durable, but it somehow works.

By: Neal Payton

Neal Payton — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:11:10 +0000

Thanks for the shoutout. Yes, I do think Design is the third leg of a three-legged stool, but hey, show me examples that stand just fine with only two legs, and I will change my tune.

By: nards

nards — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:56:12 +0000

Bad design/planning is the exact reason we are in this mess (qualifier: I design). Dense environments are only sustainably livable if designed properly (see Dharavi and Khayelitsha). Nonetheless, this book is now atop my wish list! Thanks for the recommendation.