December 2009
7 posts
Goodbye OMA-Designed Windmills
Instead of seeing OMA-designed windmills off the coast of Catalina imagined by architecture critics, California is hurtling headlong into precisely the kind of crisis that I outlined in the Infrastructural City. Political stalemate has all but undone the Golden State.
Visions of Dubai
Bldgblog has a good post up today entitled “Cities Gone Wild,” comparing two dystopian contemporary cities, Dubai and Rio.
Is this the future of cities in the developed world?
The Jobs Won't Come Back
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains
The basic assumption that jobs will eventually return when the economy recovers is probably wrong. Some jobs will come back, of course. But the reality that no one wants to talk about is a structural change in the economy that’s been going on for years but which the Great Recession has dramatically accelerated.
Under the pressure of this...
Inside the Banks
Read the following article if you think that I’m being unduly pessimistic in the face of the “recovery” of the banking system. It turns out that the recovery may be as much of a fraud as the bubble was. See Worse than Enron.
Meet the Green Boss, Same as the Old Boss
We don’t need your stinking environmental impact report, we’re green! says the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
See here, courtesy of drowninginculture.
Against Larry Summers
It’s been over a year since Obama was elected and while its an immense relief to be rid of the awful regime that laid waste to this country for eight years, the disappointment about the current administration is starting to set in. I’ve been cautious from day one since I remember just how stupid the Clinton administration really was and observed that during the election Obama never...