Comments on: Concrete plans http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2008/02/04/concrete-plans/ I am a mongrel - O ma! A gremlin... Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:34:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: » Daily Diigo Public Link 02/18/2008 Yule Heibel’s Post Studio © 2003-2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2008/02/04/concrete-plans/comment-page-1/#comment-9154 » Daily Diigo Public Link 02/18/2008 Yule Heibel’s Post Studio © 2003-2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:03:44 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2008/02/04/concrete-plans/#comment-9154 [...] Hume is on a rant against the Chicken Littles here. I can relate only too well… His description of the fear of change and how this is different from the 60s & 70s relates, I think, also to what I wrote for toward the end of last month (January) for the March issue of FOCUS Magazine. See also my blog entry, Concrete Plans. [...] [...] Hume is on a rant against the Chicken Littles here. I can relate only too well… His description of the fear of change and how this is different from the 60s & 70s relates, I think, also to what I wrote for toward the end of last month (January) for the March issue of FOCUS Magazine. See also my blog entry, Concrete Plans. [...]

]]> By: » I am rat? Not. Yule Heibel’s Post Studio © 2003-2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2008/02/04/concrete-plans/comment-page-1/#comment-9150 » I am rat? Not. Yule Heibel’s Post Studio © 2003-2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:45:12 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2008/02/04/concrete-plans/#comment-9150 [...] 1960s-era rat experiments. I had to recall the latter because of my entry from Feb.4, 2008, Concrete Plans. So once again, from Victoria Proxemics, just to reiterate that we we are not rats, here areEdward [...] [...] 1960s-era rat experiments. I had to recall the latter because of my entry from Feb.4, 2008, Concrete Plans. So once again, from Victoria Proxemics, just to reiterate that we we are not rats, here areEdward [...]

]]> By: Yule http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2008/02/04/concrete-plans/comment-page-1/#comment-8290 Yule Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:52:14 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2008/02/04/concrete-plans/#comment-8290 Thanks for reading -- and commenting, Matt. I wrote a follow-up entry, <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2008/02/05/i-am-rat-not/" rel="nofollow">I am rat? Not</a>, on Feb.5, which references an earlier post that discussed Edward Hall's <i>The Hidden Dimension</i> and referenced Calhoun's rat experiments. I was prompted to do this in part because I was thinking about density anyway (and its "hidden" relation to fear of slums), then your excellent entries got me thinking some more about concrete architecture, and that all reminded me of an entry by <a href="http://creativeclass.typepad.com/thecreativityexchange/2008/02/the-developer-i.html" rel="nofollow">Richard Florida</a> on Feb.2, very brief, just a pointer to an article by Christopher Ketchum, <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/ketcham01302008.html" rel="nofollow">The Genius of the Development Industrial-Complex</a> in <i>CounterPunch</i>. Ketchum's article seemed to repeat all the "rat anxieties" about density, hook line & sinker -- including, it seemed to me, the association of density and slum (or depravity, degradation, etc.). On <a href="http://creativeclass.typepad.com/thecreativityexchange/2008/02/the-developer-i.html" rel="nofollow">Florida</a>'s comments board, someone named Zoe B. (no link included) posted a really intelligent counter-punch (ha) to Ketchum. Quite good, and spot on, too. Thanks for reading — and commenting, Matt. I wrote a follow-up entry, I am rat? Not, on Feb.5, which references an earlier post that discussed Edward Hall’s The Hidden Dimension and referenced Calhoun’s rat experiments. I was prompted to do this in part because I was thinking about density anyway (and its “hidden” relation to fear of slums), then your excellent entries got me thinking some more about concrete architecture, and that all reminded me of an entry by Richard Florida on Feb.2, very brief, just a pointer to an article by Christopher Ketchum, The Genius of the Development Industrial-Complex in CounterPunch. Ketchum’s article seemed to repeat all the “rat anxieties” about density, hook line & sinker — including, it seemed to me, the association of density and slum (or depravity, degradation, etc.).

On Florida’s comments board, someone named Zoe B. (no link included) posted a really intelligent counter-punch (ha) to Ketchum. Quite good, and spot on, too.

]]> By: Matt http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2008/02/04/concrete-plans/comment-page-1/#comment-8281 Matt Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:36:55 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2008/02/04/concrete-plans/#comment-8281 Great post. Always good to have reasonable discussions about brutalist and victorian architecture that isn't fused with condescension. keep it up. Great post. Always good to have reasonable discussions about brutalist and victorian architecture that isn’t fused with condescension. keep it up.

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