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Nowhere in the modern city is the absence of beauty more poignant than with high-rise buildings. What started as an exciting symbol of technological progress very quickly deteriorated into a gene...

http://recities.blogspot.com/2018/11/against-high-rises.html

Beauty is a common topic on this blog. It is in fact the very purpose of this blog. It’s a word that should evoke only the most positive emotions, and yet this is rarely the case today. Just as...

http://recities.blogspot.com/2018/08/beauty-and-love_8.html

It has often been noted by architects and designers that great design is born out of constraints, and the more challenging the constraints, the greater the chance of a better design. We see a par...

http://recities.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-absence-of-restraint.html

Recently on Twitter, Steve Mouzon (@stevemouzon ) asked his followers how many daily activities they could complete by walking. It's an innocent enough question, but being the internet in 2017, i...

http://recities.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-difference-of-perspective.html

Software companies tend to release regular updates which add just a few features yet still cost an arm and a leg. With most software, though, there comes a time when the code becomes bloated and ...

http://recities.blogspot.com/2016/09/government-is-detrimental-to-good.html

There is a troubling, permanent sense of the temporary in London, something you can feel in neighborhoods across the social strata, from Hackney to Kensington. This is unhealthy both for the cit...

http://recities.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-sense-of-temporary.html

Kentlands, MD. Photo from flickr: kaibates /Creative Commons So much of our reality is based on perception. Take cars. When I was a teenager, like most boys my age I was obsessed with cars. Own...

http://recities.blogspot.com/2016/09/cars-and-perception.html

Click here for Part 1 To me, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (or what I think of as West London) is the most beautiful urban residential area in the world. Unlike most European cit...

http://recities.blogspot.com/2016/02/london-walking-guide-pt-2-west.html

A London walking guide of my favorite areas is something I'd thought about for years, but never quite got around to completing. Recently I was in London, however, and was encouraged by a friend t...

http://recities.blogspot.com/2016/02/london-walking-guide-pt-1-northwest.html

To a lot of people London is just like any other big city: loud, busy, overcrowded, and overpriced, while to others it's all wealth, bling, and supercars. While much of that is true, it's an a...

http://recities.blogspot.com/2015/12/london-tribute-to-great-city.html