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1st June 2014, 04:08
To save America's Citiies... like Buffalo "Go after the Highways!"
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Andrés Duany commentary on Buffalo: America's Best Designed City
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Published on Feb 9, 2014
Commentary soundtrack version of "Buffalo: America's Best Designed City" featuring filmmaker John Paget in conversation with architect and urban planner Andres Duany. Duany is principal partner at Duany-Plater Zyberk and is a co-founder and emeritus board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism.
He was a pioneer in New Urbanism, but instead of resting on his impressive laurels,
he REMAINS a Revolutionary - in deep and meaningful ways that are needed
Herein he talks impressively about the virtues and opportunities of Buffalo
"American cities have been through a War... it looks like a war.
Let's save the best parts (first.)
If you really want to save what needs saving, GO AFTER THE HIGHWAYS !
(for some, that would be like Killing the Sacred Cows - YEEES !)
I go after failure. When something didn't work, I study it.
I don't think you can mention Detroit and Buffalo in the same breath.
This city's in so much better shape.
But Detroit has more energy... more Vitality.
In the once cool places, like California, like Boston,
they can do nothing but The Arts - they are so repressed, so regulated
you can only do the Arts. You cannot do anything real.
You have to go to where the regulation is light !"
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*Andres Duany:
Andrés Duany (born September 7, 1949) is an American architect and urban planner.
Duany was born in New York City but grew up in Cuba until 1960. He attended The Choate School and received his undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton University (1971). After a year of study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, he received a master's degree from the Yale School of Architecture (1974).
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Duany is a co-founder and emeritus board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), established in 1993.[1] He has co-authored five books: Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, The New Civic Art, "The Smart Growth Manual", "Garden Cities" and "Landscape Urbanism and Its Discontents". Duany has worked as visiting professor at many institutions and holds two honorary doctorates
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> more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Duany
I Love this Guy* !
Andrés Duany commentary on Buffalo: America's Best Designed City
ZrngmLLsBQ4
Published on Feb 9, 2014
Commentary soundtrack version of "Buffalo: America's Best Designed City" featuring filmmaker John Paget in conversation with architect and urban planner Andres Duany. Duany is principal partner at Duany-Plater Zyberk and is a co-founder and emeritus board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism.
He was a pioneer in New Urbanism, but instead of resting on his impressive laurels,
he REMAINS a Revolutionary - in deep and meaningful ways that are needed
Herein he talks impressively about the virtues and opportunities of Buffalo
"American cities have been through a War... it looks like a war.
Let's save the best parts (first.)
If you really want to save what needs saving, GO AFTER THE HIGHWAYS !
(for some, that would be like Killing the Sacred Cows - YEEES !)
I go after failure. When something didn't work, I study it.
I don't think you can mention Detroit and Buffalo in the same breath.
This city's in so much better shape.
But Detroit has more energy... more Vitality.
In the once cool places, like California, like Boston,
they can do nothing but The Arts - they are so repressed, so regulated
you can only do the Arts. You cannot do anything real.
You have to go to where the regulation is light !"
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http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Society/Pix/pictures/2006/09/19/duany372x192.jpg
*Andres Duany:
Andrés Duany (born September 7, 1949) is an American architect and urban planner.
Duany was born in New York City but grew up in Cuba until 1960. He attended The Choate School and received his undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton University (1971). After a year of study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, he received a master's degree from the Yale School of Architecture (1974).
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Duany is a co-founder and emeritus board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), established in 1993.[1] He has co-authored five books: Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, The New Civic Art, "The Smart Growth Manual", "Garden Cities" and "Landscape Urbanism and Its Discontents". Duany has worked as visiting professor at many institutions and holds two honorary doctorates
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> more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Duany