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December 27, 2022

ODBC

Rex Curry

The promise of planning, architecture, engineering, and construction is helpful but not in the way…

December 27, 2022
December 5, 2022

The Earth is Local

Rex Curry

Improving the quality of human existence will require a different understanding of wholeness. The challenge…

December 5, 2022
November 19, 2022

Clever Meat?

Rex Curry

Climate Central evaluated future potential flood exposure to the tax base of every county in…

November 19, 2022
November 4, 2022

Stop and Shop?

Rex Curry

New York City CouncilRita Joseph, MemberRepresenting District 40930 Flatbush AvenueBrooklyn, NY 11226 Call 718-287-8762Web: https://council.nyc.gov/district-40/ Facilitate…

November 4, 2022
October 22, 2022

Garden Walls

Rex Curry

The garden walls of Albemarle Terrace represent many additions since they were constructed. The following…

October 22, 2022
September 8, 2022

Eames for IBM

Rex Curry

https://youtu.be/55Gpm1Q0abk https://youtu.be/b0vDWqp6J7Y The legendary design team Charles and Ray Eames made films, houses, books, and…

September 8, 2022
September 6, 2022

Place Design

Rex Curry

Designers of the Nature CityAll of the answers are right here in tiny forms as…

September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022

AKNA’s IT History

Rex Curry

Background In 1996, the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) deregulated telecom services in NY, promising…

September 6, 2022
September 5, 2022

The Informals

Rex Curry

In super generalized terms, by 2030, there will be nearly eight billion people on the earth….

September 5, 2022
August 18, 2022

Liz Cheney

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C-Span is the only place with Liz Cheney’s whole concession in Wyoming. Watch it and…

August 18, 2022
August 9, 2022

Methods

Rex Curry

“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more…

August 9, 2022
May 17, 2022

MacArthur

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The MacArthur Foundation MacArthur Fellows Program The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation support…

May 17, 2022
March 16, 2022

Robert Gutman

Rex Curry

Robert Gutman In an all-encompassing life of research and study of the architecture profession, Robert…

March 16, 2022
March 4, 2022

Ukraine

Rex Curry

This is one new way to look at war news. Following is a cut/paste from…

March 4, 2022
February 18, 2022

Nathan Cummings

Rex Curry

Kavita Nandini Ramdas has departed after four months as president and CEO of the $473 million Nathan Cummings Foundation. If…

February 18, 2022
January 11, 2022

Don’t Look Up

Rex Curry

https://youtu.be/gJnxj6kiAKU It wasn’t mortifying George, it was liberating! www.monbiot.com For every concerned adult, it is…

January 11, 2022
December 24, 2021

Concrete Thinking

Rex Curry

On December 16, 2021, New York City’s Municipal Art Societ (MAS) published Towards Comprehensive Planning:…

December 24, 2021
December 24, 2021

Clear Thinking

Rex Curry

In all communication find concrete words. Concrete words are essential to the discussion of issues.  …

December 24, 2021
December 6, 2021

Remote Sense

Rex Curry

https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_dangermond_an_ever_evolving_map_of_everything_on_earth Jack Dangermond is the founder and president of Esri, a geographic information system software company…

December 6, 2021
December 4, 2021

Planning Hazard

Rex Curry

Other than the occasional declaration of a national park, housing produces the largest demand for…

December 4, 2021
November 27, 2021

The White Chair

Rex Curry

Michael Wolf The White Chair Prompt The photographer’s relationship to architecture equips us with a…

November 27, 2021
November 12, 2021

Activism

Rex Curry

We must, indeed, all hang together or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. AND…

November 12, 2021
November 9, 2021

Favela Policy

Rex Curry

“The demonizing rhetoric of the various international wars on terrorism, drugs, and crime is so…

November 9, 2021
September 1, 2021

Housing Map

Rex Curry

[googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1UpQ-eDoe8ofrGig8c5jV9IqvTIdXxy3G&w=740&h=580] Are you a member of one of these organizations – on the staff,…

September 1, 2021
August 21, 2021

Fire

Rex Curry

“Bring Your Own Brigade” HERE Lucy Walker captures the horror of California wildfires and explores…

August 21, 2021
August 20, 2021

I’m On Hold

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh9h4KZpnJU Read “I’m On Hold” by Alex Cornell on Genius Forgive the ads — I love…

August 20, 2021
August 4, 2021

Old Paper

Rex Curry

On Tuesday, that scary bump on the subway came at the exact moment a tall…

August 4, 2021
July 12, 2021

Startups

Rex Curry

Startups are efforts to plan and deliver a new project, program, product, or service under…

July 12, 2021
June 20, 2021

Need a Laugh?

Rex Curry

and Benign Violations  Everything changed when the screen eye brought the horror of the world…

June 20, 2021
June 20, 2021

Extinction

Rex Curry

Extinction “The purpose of this section is unified by one-word ‘extinction.’ It is a daily…

June 20, 2021
June 18, 2021

Income <=>

Rex Curry

Obama defines the problem extremely well. https://youtu.be/iY05U7GaU5I He actually answers the question about how and…

June 18, 2021
June 14, 2021

David Steindl-Rast

Rex Curry

The differences between fully institutionalized poorness such as that established by prisons or prison-like conditions…

June 14, 2021
June 14, 2021

Denise Meadows

Rex Curry

The Club of Rome and the Smithsonian Institution’s Consortium for Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse…

June 14, 2021
June 14, 2021

People

Rex Curry

Kundera describes ways people want to be recognized. In the Unbearable Lightness of Being he…

June 14, 2021
June 14, 2021

Bucky Fuller

Rex Curry

The World Game Report (1969) shows Buckminster Fuller before a map he designed to eliminate distortion and…

June 14, 2021
June 14, 2021

Jane Jacobs

Rex Curry

Jane Jacobs’ first reference to density called out the mixed-use character of Boston’s North End…

June 14, 2021
June 10, 2021

My Neighborhood

Rex Curry

Introduction Everyone’s neighborhood is the representation of national issues. The issues reported here describe how…

June 10, 2021
June 3, 2021

Road Density

Rex Curry

The Global Roads Inventory Project (GRIP) dataset describes 60 geospatial datasets on road infrastructure worldwide,…

June 3, 2021
June 3, 2021

Black Rock

Rex Curry

Black Rock City In 2010, Black Rock City (aka Harveywood) was the fourth largest city…

June 3, 2021
June 3, 2021

Diversity/Density

Rex Curry

Twentieth-century urban and technological development events represent immense power. Yet, whether they are judged superficial,…

June 3, 2021
June 3, 2021

Harlem

Rex Curry

Harlem Piers: W Architecture and Landscape Architecture Spring 2007Columbia Manhattanville: Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Marilyn Taylor/SOM,…

June 3, 2021
June 1, 2021

Open Spaces

Rex Curry

Ten percent of Planetizen’s Top 100 Public Spaces in the United States were in New York…

June 1, 2021
May 30, 2021

Clients

Rex Curry

Architecture Plus!BronxNYASSISTSalt Lake CityUTBall State UniversityMuncieINBall State UniversityIndianapolisINBrooklyn Chamber of CommerceBrooklynNYBrooklyn Children’s MuseumBrooklynNYBrooklyn Economic Development…

May 30, 2021
May 18, 2021

George Monbiot

Rex Curry

Self-fulfilling prophecies are tangible, especially destructive ones. In this sense, the assignment of evolutionary principles…

May 18, 2021

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