:: Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl @ the San Jose Museum of Art. Article, Metropolis
:: Big Urbanism
Jane Jacobs’s crusade against architectural master plans, combined with a growing historic-preservation movement and the fall of heroic high modernism, led to a generation of planners, architects and activists intent on restoring, rather than drastically reshaping, the urban fabric.
But now cities are once again planning with grandiosity. This year witnessed the return of what you might call big urbanism, with large-scale redevelopment projects sprouting nationwide. (via)
:: Personal space detection for agoraphobics, claustrohobics and other city-dwellers