June 2023

What I’m Reading, Vol. IV

June 30, 2023 / What I'm Reading / Patrick Tomassi

No surprises here – it’s mostly architecture and urbanism books. But wait! There’s a novel and a biography in there too. If you want to jump ahead, just click a link. This installment covers Walkable City by Jeff Speck, Strong Towns by Charles Marohn, Confessions of a Recovering Engineer by Charles Marohn, The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, A Song for Nagasaki by […]

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The Radiant City

June 30, 2023 / Essays, Writing / Patrick Tomassi

Fascist rally for Benito Mussolini at Piazza San Marco in Venice

Le Corbusier’s influential vision of totalitarian architecture has never coexisted with organic human reality. No single person — no elected official, designer, planner, architect or style-setter — has had a more profound effect on the built environment worldwide than the Swiss-French architect and city planner Le Corbusier. His buildings litter the covers of books and

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