Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Convenience for one group of users doesn’t mean convenience for all of them.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Why the Lab failed is a story of grand plans cast into turmoil by the disgrace of the grand planner himself. Among other things, it reveals how difficult it is to hold on to a place at the table, once you’ve got it (assuming you’d even want to). In the end, it boils down to a question: Is local government really the best place for public interest d... See more
Amanda Kolson Hurley • One Mayor’s Downfall Killed the Design Project That Could’ve Changed Everything
“not yet touched by the mild boredom of order,”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Cliché is not desirable.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Oscar Newman’s 1972 book Defensible Space: Crime Prevention through Urban Design is widely credited for illustrating how the design of public housing influenced criminal opportunity.18 Newman focused his case studies on NYC public housing complexes, where, he pointed out, robbery rates were much greater in high-rise buildings, even when the actual
... See moreJohn MacDonald • Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning
Ringo,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
This trend towards “financialization,” of viewing a building increasingly in economic terms and only adding features that could be financially justified, continued over the course of the 20th century. Following World War II, developers embraced modernism because it provided an excuse to construct buildings less expensively, notes Steven Ruttenbaum:
Brian Potter • Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
the role a spectacular work of architecture could play as a catalyst for economic development.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
decentralized sameness,”