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Unpacking Emergent Tokyo with author Jorge Almazán

May 25, 2022 By Salim Furth

In my previous post, I reviewed an old book on Japan while teasing a new one:If you read one book about Japan this year, it should be the beautiful, new Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City by Jorge Almazan and his Studiolab colleagues, including Joe McReynolds. But if you read … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture and Design, Book Review, Culture & Books, Uncategorized, World City Profiles Tagged With: emergent urbanism, japan, tokyo

Houston Impressions

March 14, 2022 By Salim Furth

Given that I've written a few papers about Harris County, Texas, and even helped republish a book about the city of Houston, it's a little embarrassing to admit I had never been there. So when a Canadian buddy suggested meeting up in the Bayou City for barbeque ahead of his conference there, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture and Design, Places & Spaces, sprawl, Travel, World City Profiles Tagged With: architecture, Houston

Get the tuck out of here

September 10, 2020 By Salim Furth

Tuck-under duplexes in Palisades Park, NJ (Google Streetview)In two previous posts, I’ve raised questions about the competitiveness of missing middle housing. This post is more petty: I want to challenge the design rigidities that Daniel Parolek promotes in Missing Middle Housing. Although … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture and Design, Book Review, housing, Los Angeles Tagged With: books, Economics, housing, missing middle

In praise of fee simple ownership

September 9, 2020 By Salim Furth

In yesterday's post, I showed that missing middle housing, as celebrated in Daniel Parolek’s new book, may be stuck in the middle, too balanced to compete with single family housing on the one hand and multifamily on the other.But what about all the disadvantages that middle housing faces? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture and Design, Book Review, housing Tagged With: books, Economics, housing, missing middle

Stuck in the (Missing) Middle

September 8, 2020 By Salim Furth

Everybody loves missing middle housing! What’s not to like? It consists of neighborly, often attractive homes that fit in equally well in Rumford, Maine, and Queens, New York. Missing middle housing types have character and personality. They’re often affordable and vintage.Daniel Parolek’s new … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture and Design, Book Review, Development, housing Tagged With: books, Economics, housing, missing middle

“Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities” Out Today

December 4, 2018 By Nolan Gray

Alain Bertaud's long awaited book, Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities, is out today. Bertaud is a senior research scholar at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management and former principle urban planner at the World Bank.Working through a pre-release copy over the past few weeks, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture and Design, Book Review, Development, World Tagged With: alain bertaud, order without design

Ch. 1 What is a City?: What the tradoffs might look like

May 17, 2018 By Sandy Ikeda

We can visualize the tradeoff between the scale of design and the complexity and spontaneity of a social order as a downward-sloping curve. A sort of “scale-versus-order-possibilities frontier.”In addition to scale and spontaneous order/complexity, a third element I would add to the tradeoff is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture and Design, Author: Sandy Ikeda, Jane Jacobs Tagged With: City, complexity, design, scale, spontaneous order, tradeoff

Ch. 1 What is a City?: Up close and personal

April 19, 2018 By Sandy Ikeda

One of the popular sports broadcasts I used to watch as a kid promised interviews with athletes that would bring them to you “up close and personal.” As I was once waiting in line to order coffee at one of my favorite local coffeehouses there were several people ahead of me. I followed the “barista” … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture and Design, Author: Sandy Ikeda, Culture of Congestion, Jane Jacobs Tagged With: Jane Jacobs, Ken-ichi Sasaki, Kevin Lynch, tactility, tokyo, Urbanism

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