Quote of the day (modernism)

John Massengale is an architect, co-founder of the pro-urb e-list, founder of the urbanists e-list and a blogger, with Veritas et Venustas. Today he has an entry on a New York Times article about new urbanism in Louisiana, "Replica of New Orleans: A Study in Urban Cloning." He writes:

CONSIDERING that my favorite newspaper has a slight inbuilt bias towards the cultural and artistic assumptions of 20th century Modernism, today's article on a New Urban development in Louisiana is pretty well balanced....

The New York Times isn't sophisticated enough on the subject to understand that issues like walkability and sustainability are more important than discussions about style. Nor that Modernism has not produced a single neighborhood, town or city where many people want to live.

(Click here for a pro-urbanist perspective on modernism by John Massengale.)

Index Keywords: urban-revitalization; urban-design-placemaking