Sublime

When we ponder the layout of ancient cities, we must acknowledge that they are the by-product of thousands of years of human tinkering. People came together in villages and tried different living arrangements. What worked, they copied and expanded. What didn’t work, they discarded. That is, if those experiments hadn’t already killed or disbanded th

La piétonnisation des centres-villes, des lieux historiques, des rues commerçantes ou de loisirs des quartiers, à l’exemple de Fribourg-en-Brisgau, dans le pays de Bade : toute ville devrait comporter une double ceinture de parkings,

Perhaps the most remarkable characteristic of these parks and parkways that were becoming physical realities in 1928 was that they were, for the most part, the parks and parkways he had proposed in the New York State Association park reports he had written in 1922 and 1923. They were located in the places he had proposed, and the details of their d

Erosion of cities by automobiles entails so familiar a series of events that these hardly need describing. The erosion proceeds as a kind of nibbling, small nibbles at first, but eventually hefty bites. Because of vehicular congestion, a street is widened here, another is straightened there, a wide avenue is converted to one-way flow, staggered-sig

The first effect is a spatialized version of Adam Smith’s famous dictum that “the division of labor is limited by the extent of the market.”