I dug up an old post that I wrote the other day. Not only is it evidence of just how long I’ve been on the Internet (actually, it’s not, I’ve been on the Net continously since 1989 and at least to some degree since 1987), it contains some good suggestions for tunneling, in case you ever wind up in the Cornell area.
cities
Psychogeography and the End of Planning . Reyner Banham’s Los Angeles. The Architecture of Four Ecologies
The Getty is showing the 1972 video “Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles” tonight. Although I won’t be able to make it, I thought it’d be appropriate to post a draft of this essay that I’ve written on Banham and Los Angeles. Footnotes not included. This is a teaser. For the notes””?and much more””?you’ll need to buy Pat Morton’s edited book on Taste, which should be out in 2006 and promises to be well worth the money.
Can Megaskyscrapers Cause Earthquakes?
Does the world’s tallest skyscraper cause earthquakes? One researcher seems to think so. See this article on CNN.com
Inner Cities Still Failing
Has the Network City solved the problem of America’s declining inner cites? No, and neither has government aid.
A new study by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner Citysuggests not. Defining Inner Cities as “U.S. census tracts having at least a 20 percent poverty rate or two of these factors ”“ a poverty or unemployment rate one-and-a-half times or higher than their surrounding metropolitan area or median household income one-half or less that of the surrounding metropolitan area,” the study concludes that neither tax incentives nor aid programs have helped stem the loss of jobs.
Moreover, the study found that nearly half of the country’s 82 largest municipalities lost jobs from 1995 to 2003 while only one of the surrounding metropolitan areas shed jobs during that period.
See the AP story.