Tag: Seaside Prize

Here’s to Zimmerman/Volk and to ‘Attainable Housing’

Ben Brown
Ben Brown
I should maybe feel at least a little guilty for escaping the cold weather in the North Carolina mountains where I live and heading to Florida over the weekend. But I don’t. The destination was, after all, Panhandle Florida, the vertically challenged part of Florida that folks farther south call “LA,” as in “Lower... Continue Reading
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Dhiru’s Encyclopedia of City-Shaping: Reassurance in Uncertain Times

Ben Brown
Ben Brown
Just about anybody remotely interested in how the world’s most admired places earned their adulation is going to love Dhiru Thadani’s new book: The Language of Towns and Cities. In it, Dhiru subtitles the book “A Visual Dictionary,” but as L.J. Aurbach points out in his blog review, it’s really an encyclopedia. Continue Reading
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