When she moved to Lyon in 2010 with her trusted camera, she discovered a heavy atmosphere through an abandoned industrial past, which left
a kind of urbanism that seemed to immobilise its local residents.
Not exact matches
In spite
of our attraction to good cities when we see them, American culture is currently neither conducive nor receptive to the
kind of architecture and
urbanism that Mayernik champions.
But, as the example
of King Farm shows, new
urbanism can devolve into the
kind of central planning criticized by the very founders
of the urban planning school
of thought — and can also result in what is essentially a style without substance.
One can compare this inhuman drama to the
urbanism of Sheeler and Demuth, but one can also think
of it as
kind of animism.
Seen together the images suggest a
kind -
of hallucinatory
urbanism.
These are the
kinds of initiatives that Jane Jacobs and others have advocated as plain old good
urbanism.