To learn more about "missing teeth" in urban centers, take a listen to this podcast:
"Empty Spaces in the Streetscape"
Description:
In this podcast, James Howard Kunstler explains the negative effects that empty building lots have on the urban streetscape. These empty spaces or 'missing teeth' are dead zones that are repellent to pedestrians. But, at the moment, our car crazy society prefers to keep those dead zones for surface parking rather than to infill them with good urban buildings. (Released Dec 18, 2008)
Urban Design Resources:
In this podcast, James Howard Kunstler explains the negative effects that empty building lots have on the urban streetscape. These empty spaces or 'missing teeth' are dead zones that are repellent to pedestrians. But, at the moment, our car crazy society prefers to keep those dead zones for surface parking rather than to infill them with good urban buildings. (Released Dec 18, 2008)
Urban Design Resources:
- AIA Detroit (Detroit)
- Architecture for Humanity (San Francisco)
- Civic Center (New Orleans)
- Creative Time (New York)
- Design Trust for Public Space (New York)
- Detroit Collaborative Design Center (Detroit)
- Detroit Creative Corridor Center (Detroit)
- Green Garage (Detroit)
- Institute for Urban Design (New York)
- Low-Cost and High-Value Ideas for Cities
- Metropolis Magazine (New York)
- Model D (Detroit)
- Next American City (Philadelphia)
- Park(ing) Day
- Project for Public Spaces (New York)
- Rogue HAA (Detroit)
- U.S. Green Building Council (Washington, D.C.)
- Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture (New York)
