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With Robert A.M. Stern I wrote a history of architecture and urbanism in the Progressive Era, New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890–1915 (Rizzoli, 1983) as well as an introduction to the history of suburbia before sprawl, The Anglo–American Suburb (St. Martin's Press, 1981). With Victor Dover, I am writing Street Design, The Art & Practice of Making Complete Streets (J. Wiley & Sons, 2013).

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

The second semi-annual Slouching Towards Alphaville Award goes to Zaha Hadid's Expocentre exhibition halls and residential tower project in Russia

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It's cold. It's winter. It's minus 20 degrees, an arctic wind is blowing in from the Russian steppes, and you're walking on the biggest street in Moscow. Above you in the swirling snow loom three towers that increase the wind chill factor to minus 100 degrees. All the vokda in Russia won't fix this picture.

Haha Hadid? No no Nanotchka! (more wind-blown photos here)

1st Annual Slouching Towards Alphaville Award

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Like ants to the slaughter.

March 21, 2007 in Architecture, Culture, Current Affairs, Urbanism | Permalink

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They did a great job on that building. i think it brings us into to the correct century

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