UPDATE: THE REBURBIA COMPETITION ENTRY by my friend and brilliant colleague Galina Tahchieva has taken the lead in the voting, but at one point today she was only three votes ahead of the Tower in the Parking Lot / Moshe Safdie rip-off, and the vote goes.
Topics: Architecture, Culture, New Urbanism, Urbanism

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THERE'S BEEN a certain amount of talk on the internet about an encounter at the Aspen Ideas Festival between Frank Gehry and Fred Kent, President of Project for Public Spaces. Since James Fallow's initial post about this, a video has gone up on...
Topics: Architecture, Classicism, Culture, New Urbanism, Urbanism

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JAMES FALLOWS is a prominent journalist with a blog at The Atlantic. He wrote this from the Aspen Ideas Festival: This evening at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the celebrated architect Frank Gehry talked about his life and works.... Gehry was funny,...
Topics: Architecture, Culture, Urbanism, Weblogs

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The Manor of Van Cortlandt was an 86,000 acre tract that ran from the Hudson River to Connecticut. 2009 is the 400th Anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage to the New World. Slideshow with 3 more photos
Topics: Architecture, Culture

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MINNESOTA GOVERNOR Tim Pawlenty, a Republican, was on The Brian Lehrer Show today. Asked what he thought about climate change, he said that while he's not completely convinced, he knows that pollution causes enough problems to convince him that we...
Topics: Urbanism

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