democraticSPACE.com/blogDemocraticSPACE is one of North America's leading non-partisan political websites.Jane Jacobs has died- April 25, 2006 Very sad news today. Jane Jacobs has died at 89, apparently due to a stroke. The world has lost one of its greatest citizens. The American-born activist, writer, and urban expert has lived in Canada (Toronto) since 1968. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) is one of the seminal texts ...http://democraticspace.com/blog/2006/04/jane-jacobs-has-died/ Gehrys Bilbao Guggenheim And The Ideology Of Skin-Deep Architecture- April 20, 2006 I typically don&8217;t post my academic work here, since scholarly work is not as accessible as op-eds. That being said, this piece might interest some people &8212; it&8217;s about the relationship between politics, ideology and design. Architects should be warned that I take a critical position on current practice. How Technology Swallowed The Fish: Gehry&8217;s Bilbao ...http://democraticspace.com/blog/2006/04/gehrys-bilbao-guggenheim-and-the-ideology-of-skin-... Politics and Design- April 7, 2006 I&8217;m looking for popular news media stories about politics and design or the politics of design for a seminar that I am doing on Politics, Ideology and Design. Left to my own devices I will use either a recent article about Gehryland, USA (Christopher Hawthorne, Metropolis Magazine, April 2006) or the $195-million scribble and ...http://democraticspace.com/blog/2006/04/politics-and-design/ |