16 March 2009

NeRd aLeRt!

lets take a look around the globe at how different world class cities are planning for the future while dealing with the recession of the present.


New York: Bloomberg and his development obsessed deputy Dan Doctoroff have huge projects that remain unrealized but have still made a dramatic impact on the city during their time in office.


Paris: Recognizing a long understood and ignored problem that haunts the city of lights, French President Sarkozy has turned to the architecture community to find their way out. How can Paris stay mostly the same in the vaunted city center but still extend the charm and beauty to les banlieues?


Los Angeles: Is there enough money in the world to make a space in LA for the civic minded pedestrian?


Barcelona: One of Europe's favorite playground for starchitects is finally feeling the cold crunch of global recession.  The whores on Las Ramblas will still be just as charming without a Pritzker pedigree building in the background

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