Check out the summer edition of Urban Design Review, the new-ish journal of the Forum for Urban Design, based in New York City.
In it, you'll find some provocative reading. A sampling:
- Senior Editor Geoff Manaugh, who is also the force behind BLDGBLOG, interviews Mike Davis about his book, Planet of Slums
- David Haskell, executive director of the Forum for Urban Design, explores a new book about "event places" and Barcelona
- Michiel van Raaij examines Charles Jencks' The Iconic Building
- Hugh Hardy reviews a new book on theater design
Finally, I wrote a short article about supercharged real estate ads appearing in the NYTimes Magazine these days. What do such ads say about New York, urban living, and the role of architecture? Check it out, here.
As a follow-up to the article about NYTimes condo ads, check out the following article about the suggestive power of little plastic people in scale models, in Florida Inside Out magazine:
http://www.floridainsideout.com/content/features/01/index.htm
Posted by: Chris | 08/24/2006 at 12:41