Design Observer :: Join the Discussion http://places.designobserver.com/feature/community-the-american-way-of-living/10647/ en-us Design Observer Group 2010-05-19T15:08:35-05:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0 It's great to know about the ways of living in America, in my future I am planning to have my work in United States through your post I have gained an idea which I will just kept until I came there.

America is one of the most that people loves to go because of it’s a amazing places and a lot of opportunity to be found there. Thanks!
]]> Maye http://places.designobserver.com/feature/community-the-american-way-of-living/10647/#comments 2010-05-19T15:08:35-05:00
Transit and trails are great places of encounter.

]]> Charles Brenton http://places.designobserver.com/feature/community-the-american-way-of-living/10647/#comments 2009-10-16T09:25:51-05:00
There is however a critique of this genre of thought which the authors pay lip service to but never really answer. Mainly, the Everyday, even the everyday of the open city, often does not need and indeed rejects architects and the acts of architecture and urban design, even when the architect comes to them with open arms. The Everyday also often denies architecture culture and as a result falls prey far too often to being, to quote the authors, "notoriously conservative".

This article may tell us from a social and political point of view why we should value these open urban environments, but, does it necessarily follow from a cultural standpoint that many of the forms illustrated herein are anything more than crude and sometime touching symbolic manifestations of people struggling to find a place for themselves, ignorant of the history and culture of architecture and urbanism and craft? This type of production with lack of knowledge or memory of any propelling aesthetic and/or liberal design value may not be philosophically humanistic.

I think this constitutes a problem, when the role of architecture and architects is left unsituated, or diminished by the everyday process through which it comes into being.

Other than as a statement of political consciousness, to misquote Wendy's Hamburger Chain, "what and where is the everyday architecture and urban design beef?"]]> Samantha Tsai http://places.designobserver.com/feature/community-the-american-way-of-living/10647/#comments 2009-10-15T02:09:58-05:00
These places are in danger of losing their diversity - tipping either to gentrification or disinvestment. Before we jump all the way out to Post WW-II suburbia and offer our help sustaining whatever emergent diversity is in evidence there, let's focus on the existing diverse places that are struggling to stay that way.]]> Emily Talen http://places.designobserver.com/feature/community-the-american-way-of-living/10647/#comments 2009-10-13T12:37:09-05:00