Creating Sustainable Cities, One Neighborhood At A Time
NY Professor to make the case for sustainable cities at an annual conference in Melbourne Australia.
Feb 10, 2005, 07:00 am PST
Contributed by Zvi Leve
Prof. Michael Sorkin believes that "the recovery of the human scale of urban interaction" is essential for the creation of sustainable cities. "We know how to do this," he says from his office in New York, "but under pressure from developers, public officials and architects of shrivelled imagination, it is something we fail to celebrate and demand." Prof. Sorkin moved into the relatively recent academic discipline of urban design because the architecture profession has failed to effectively tackle "the vapid suburbanisation of the planet as part of a more general decline in the politics of compassion and responsibility". The more traditional discipline of urban planning has also failed to do much more "than produce mechanical, alienating, dreary cities that lack the vitality of less regulated, more spontaneous places".
Full story: Rescuing the city's lost soul
Source: The Age, Australia, Feb 09, 2005.
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