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Buildings the case
Wall Street JournalGreat architects are the enemies of history. They aspire to erase the visible past and to superimpose their own vision of the future. Ever since Baron Haussmann declared war on the back alleys of Paris in the mid-19th Century, replacing them with wide...Tags: New York, Manhattan (New York City), Sociology, Rem Koolhaas, Lewis Mumford
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Park activists aim to bridge fountain, Queen's Landing for pedestrians
Chicago Tribune criticGrant Park is sending some very mixed messages to pedestrians—"the foot people," as the late, great urbanologist Jane Jacobs called them. On the one hand, the lot of the pedestrian experience has been improving in the most central of Chicago's...Tags: Imperial and Royal Matters, Heavy Engineering, Ceremonies, Buckingham Fountain, Illinois
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New York real estate: Financial District
Special to amNewYorkOnce the 17th-century Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, the Financial District is not only America's financial capital, but the very beginnings of New York City. For years the Financial District was a ghost town at night -- described perhaps most...Tags: Food and Dining Culture, Uno Chicago Grill, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Battery Park, Health and Safety at School
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The essentials: Top ten books about New York City
amNY.comRequired reading for anyone who wants to really know New York The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, 1920. An insider's look at the city's upper class in the 1870s, wrapped around a gentleman's love story. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith, 1943....Tags: Baseball, Major League Baseball, Robert Moses
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Has NYC lost its soul?
jsilverman@am-ny.comA new Chelsea high-rise will include a special elevator to lift tenants' cars to a parking space right outside their condos, recreating the suburban garage. More than 120 Chase bank branches are in Manhattan, including 23 that have opened in the past...Tags: New York, New Products, SoHo, Manhattan (New York City), Starbucks Corporation
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One-time haven for arts, deviants is no more
jsilverman@am-ny.comWhen Tama Janowitz published the bestselling "Slaves of New York" in 1986, the city seemed a place where deviants and artists of all income levels could find community. "There was a sense that anything was possible in the city," Janowitz said last week....Tags: New York
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City Living: Stuyvesant Town
Special to amNew YorkA visit to Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village is like stepping back in time. Mere blocks away from the percolating hipness of the East Village and the roar of the FDR is an oasis as quiet as the deepest reaches of Central Park. On a sunny weekend...Tags: Peter Stuyvesant, National Government, MetLife Incorporated, Christianity, HSBC Holdings Plc
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Where Modernism hit an Art Deco wall
Sociologist NATHAN GLAZER is the author of "From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City," to be published in April.THE AMERICAN Institute of Architects recently asked a national sample to judge American buildings, monuments and other structures. Each participant in the survey rated some of the 247 buildings nominated by the institute, and the scores were tallied...Tags: Imperial and Royal Matters, Thomas Jefferson, Mies van der Rohe, Rem Koolhaas, Charles, Prince of Wales
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REVIEW
Gordon Cox is a regular contributor to Newsday.The young, irreverent theater troupe Les Freres Corbusier have done nothing less than make a zany comedy out of urban planning. Topics don't get much more dryly intellectual than high- density living and single-use zoning, and there is definitely a...Tags: New York, Lincoln Center, Freemasonry, Manhattan (New York City), Religious Leaders
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'Sketches of Frank Gehry'
Times Staff WriterArchitecture is the slowest of the arts, by far: It often takes a full decade for a building to go from sketch to ribbon-cutting, a journey that can be pushed off course by zoning officials, fussy clients and the laws of gravity. But in "Sketches of Frank...Tags: Bob Geldof, Anaheim, Sony Corp., Guggenheim Museum, Dennis Hopper
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You Just Need To Get Started': A Conversation With Ken Greenberg
The Hartford CourantKen Greenberg is a city planner from Toronto who spearheaded a 1998 master plan for downtown Hartford that came to be known as the Greenberg Plan. Now a consultant to the Capital City Economic Development Authority, he spoke with The Courant's editorial...Tags: Vehicles, Bushnell Park, Constitutional Issues, Christianity, Eddie A. Perez
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Starting At Ground Zero
STAFF WRITER, Staff writers Katia Hetter and Graham Rayman contributed to this story.Jack Beyer was only a block away from the World Trade Center when the first jet slammed into the north tower on Sept. 11. The Harvard-trained architect was getting out of a cab with some colleagues on his way to a regular meeting at the South Street...Tags: Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York Times, Business Enterprises, Regional Authority, Long Island
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