| yeah! right! reading this semantically... | | love affair amongst fascists in context of planning | == is valid, puts planning in context. fascism and love, | psychological pills with interesting effects when taken together | | wonder what planners will learn, london olympics are in summer, | turin in winter. also, i notice the endnote to this article, | where usual architecture essays i see on this list end with | provocations and food-for-thought, here we have homilies.
Reach for the sky London's planners for 2012 could learn a great deal from the enlightened new architecture at next month's Winter Olympics, writes Jonathan Glancey AZplan wrote: > 12th Intll Planning History Society Conference > > .... > > * Sustainability and environmental approaches > * Technology and infrastructure > * Multilateral negations and strategic partnerships > * India's heritage policy and regulations both past and present > Mussolini's political love affair with Hitler led to what had become the most rational of Romantic European cities into roofless grief: by May 1945, more than 40% of Turin's buildings had been destroyed. So the city reinvented itself once more: during the 1950s, along with Milan, it was the powerhouse of Italy's "economic miracle". Towards the end of the century, as heavy industry headed to Asia, it fell into another decline. Now, for next month's Winter Olympics, Turin is setting its sights high again. Over the next few weeks, visitors will discover a city putting on a show not just of sporting prowess, nor even of fine new Olympics-related architecture, but of civic sense and intelligent urban planning on a quietly heroic scale. The way in which Turin is using the Winter Olympics to its advantage is almost the polar opposite of the way the 2012 Olympics are being treated in London. .... For something like a quarter of the cost of the investment London plans to make in the 2012 Olympics, Turin has shown that it is possible to prepare for an international sporting event while investing in the long-term civic good. The new architecture feels of a piece with what continues to be one of Europe's most handsome and enlightened cities. cont'd... http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1697893,00.html | i notice several oxymorons in the text as well... or what | is called 'statistically improbable phrases', such as... | | "planners ... could learn" | "intelligent urban planning" | "latest plans" (in the context of planning, connoting new ideas) | and much more... | | don't trust me on this, do an analysis yourself with something like | Google SOAP. propositions such as "planners can learn" are | extremely rare on the internet (especially in Google Scholar). | | i remember asking director of some school of planning, this is how | the conversation went (i quote from my diary)... | | (me) "so what is planning" | (pd) "well, this, and this, and this, and everything, and keep in mind | architects are bad people, bad humans, very bad people but polite" | (...i pause...) | (me) "so where do you use planners" | (pd) "well, here, there, and here, and everywhere where you don't have | people you can use. and keep in mind architects are bad people but | well dressed in multicolor" | (...i pause, and count till ten...) | (me) "so how do you use planners" | (pd) "anyhow, actually, use planners when you want things done anyhow, | because planners will take anything and put it in what they call | 'planning frameworks', which can 'regularize' everything and keep | in mind architects are bad people but clean" | (...i pause, patience!...) | (me) "so what is a planning framework?" | (pd) "a 'planning framework' is a way of writing things so that things | done anyhow look legitimate. we also have a 'masterplanning framework' | keep in mind that master architects are EXTREMELY bad people, evil | like Le Corbusier" | (...i gnaw my foot off...) | (me) "but planners always make these little drawings & big spreadsheet | which look exactly like Le Corbusier stuff, especially with sunpaths | and social housing and eco-sensitive stuff" | (...i gnaw the other foot off...) | (pd) "yes, they do, everything planners do is LEGITIMATE, Le Corbusier | is a very very bad person. you LEFTIST, it is no longer eco-sensitive, | say SUSTAINABLE, ten times. we are in liberal-globalization phase" | (...am i glad i read burgess, 1985; and orwell, 1984...) | (me) "yes. of course, four legs good, but what are planners good for?" | (pd) "that is a very very bad question. planners are | not good FOR anything, planners ARE good. they are GOOD. you | understand? you! you... you... architect? | (pd foams at mouth) | (...i pause...) | (me) "ok. so where do you use planners?" | (pd) "everywhere where you can't use anyone else" | (me) "you mean you use a planner when you don't another word?" | (pd) "YES, there is no alternative to a planner" | (me) "so you use a planner in lieu of another professional term?" | (pd) "YES" | (me) "so a planner is like an oxymoron?" | (pd) "yes. no! yes. no! No! NO! a architect is a moron" | ... | ... | (pd continues) "er! what is a Oxymoron?" | (...eh!...) | (me) "it is not in the masterplan, it is basically something like an | nitrogen bar. brings stale air into fresh issues, but the same thing. | it is just a word. i don't know, perhaps it is in masterplan. | we architects often don't get it, YOU know architects are bad humans" | (pd) "oh! i knew that all along. agree, architects are BAD, therefore | planners are OXYmorons. you must remember, planning is MUCH BETTER | than architecture" | | found this (pd) guy glaring at me three days later. i presume he found | a dictionary, remembered the word, and was able to find the term | in the dictionary. no mean feat, as one might realize. but he was | the director, after all, probably even had the 'qualification' on | paper, in triplicate and according to whatever.... _______________________________________________ in-enaction mailing list http://mail.architexturez.net/mailman/listinfo/in-enaction + Architexturez collaborative at http://portal.architexturez.org/
