Ian McHarg A Quest for Life: An Autobiography John Wiley & Sons New York 1996, p. 107
A record of field trips and other explorations of a particular urban design element - the internal reserve - a 'pocket park' surrounded on all sides by residential housing but accessible by pedestrian pathways from the street. They are exclusive, secluded, sometimes neglected, sometimes celebrated, suburban spaces. This blog welcomes contributions: comments, images, memorabilia. Please email nicholsd@unimelb.edu.au
Monday, May 9, 2011
Chatham Village, Pittsburgh
'My ideas for Scottish housing were influenced strongly by the brilliant landscape architect Henry Wright, a 1901 Penn architecture graduate, and the architect-planner Clarence Stein. They had invented the superblock, first employed in Radburn, New Jersey, later on in Chatham Village in Pittsburgh and Baldwin Hills Village near Los Angeles.'
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Kabbera Central, Kelso, NSW
Look at it here. Kelso is essentially a suburb adjoining the regional city of Bathurst but it has an identity greater than mere adjacent su...
-
A search on something else entirely led me to the June 1927 issue of one of Florence Taylor's publications, Construction and Local Go...
-
Comparison between the above from a relatively new UBD street directory and the current Google Map shows some disparity in the shape of t...
-
A place I have not yet visited but hope to within the next twelve months. An attempt to contextualise it historically can be found here . Go...
No comments:
Post a Comment