"Students who reported they gained independence later in childhood — going to the grocery store or riding public transportation alone, for example — viewed their university campus as more dangerous"
New from me: Researchers are beginning to ask if a lack of childhood independence plays a role in the mental health crisis. "Today’s 18-year-olds are like 12-year-olds from a decade ago. They have very little tolerance for conflict and discomfort."
My forever obsession is colorful tech of the past. I don’t know who is choosing the colors for Apple, Alexa, etc. but they are so unappealing.
@cooperhewitt
Except then AS USUAL the reasons for this start w smartphone use when they should start with lack of pedestrian safety + teen gathering places and over-reliance on organized activities
This whole “just turn the office buildings into housing” discourse really points to how little the people who think they know about money and technology even think about physical spaces, their age, their requirements
Galleys are in for MEET ME BY THE FOUNTAIN: AN INSIDE HISTORY OF THE MALL and I’m thrilled to share the cover
@katiphon
—> Preorder here for June 2022
—> LMK if you’re in the media and you want one
—> Can’t wait to talk more malls
@artcrimeprof
Would read and I think my version of this is going to second cities that have plenty of architectural sites -- tho that means the kids have to put up with questions like "Why are you going to Baltimore for spring break?"
Here’s the thing about having streets where children can play: They help each other with minimal parental supervision — you don’t have to do everything if kids have the space to make their own fun
A group of neighborhood kids came together to help teach a little boy how to ride his bike. The boy's mom captured the footage — and it might be the most wholesome thing you'll see all day. ❤️
Today is the first birthday of ⛲️🛍️MEET ME BY THE FOUNTAIN 🛍️⛲️
Thank you to everyone who read, listened, reviewed, podcasted, reminisced, plotted with me.
I knew the world needed a mall book, and 🤞more on malls to come.
I’m excited to be able to share that I will be receiving the Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary
@AIGAdesign
Awards Ceremony April 6. Even better, Alexander Girard, one of the cultural phenoms on whom I have commented, is getting a 2019 Medal!
I’m going on my first MALL FIELD TRIP on Monday and the architect just emailed me this map with our meeting spot. Now I’m wondering if my book cover should just be a galaxy of mall plans.
Brilliant: Newcastle, UK, releases a ‘pro-city’ plan to create a walking and cycling network to connect every school, to every park, to every local shopping center. Culling parking from the streetscape is one of the key ways they are going to do it.
Let’s make the lives of mothers easier through slow streets, protected bike lanes, abundant playgrounds and other places where children can assert their independence safely and inexpensively!
Got the first copy of my living, breathing book this weekend! Pub date is June 12 // please preorder or ask for it at your local bookstore to find out what Eero Saarinen and ZOOB have in common...
@BloomsburyPub
I went looking for an I.M. Pei photo to share and got distracted by all the grids of Columbus, IN so here he is in context (clockwise from top L: Eliel Saarinen, Roche Dinkeloo, I.M. Pei, Alexander Girard)
A street that works for kids works for everyone. Today's release of Designing Streets for Kids shows how cities can lead by following the footsteps of children around the world.
TIL my husband thinks of the year as a wheel with Christmas at the top. I can’t even wrap my head around this! I think of the year as a stack of 12 rectangles with January at the top where she belongs, like a paper calendar floating in headspace.
C’mon
@nytimes
you can’t write an entire story about new libraries attracting new audiences without identifying ALL the architects. I’m so mad on behalf of
@snohetta
@LakeFlato
et all rn
Nice surprise this morning! My
@curbed
story “No Loitering, No Skateboarding, No Baggy Pants” on teens and public space won 2018
@nypressclub
award for Feature Reporting - Internet // Look for Pt. 2 on teenspace later this month
Congrats to architecture critic
@LangeAlexandra
, who will be awarded with the Stephen A. Kliment Oculus Award at
@AIA_NewYork
's 15th annual Honors and Awards Luncheon this spring!
I knew I had photos: As I’ve had to say far too many times (AT&T lobby, Hall of Gems & Minerals, UN Plaza restaurant) why are we destroying so much exuberance for blandness?
Today’s children are 30% less aerobically fit than their parents were at their age, a new study found.
The study points to climate change and rising temperatures adversely affecting childhood obesity, as children spend less time exercising outdoors.
The Guggenheim will announce a price hike today — joining a "new normal" in the museum world in which tickets cost $30.
What's behind it? I spoke with nearly two dozen museums to find out. Here's what I heard...
Would you guys follow a dedicated account where I shared Instagram Stories of new design books that I think are worthy? What is it that convinces you to buy a design book?
I ask because I am lucky to be sent many books, I mostly buy out-of-print for research.
I’m jurying a documentary festival (Hot Springs, if you’re curious) and one of the films is about architect Bruce Goff—probably not something I would have watched on my own, but oh my fucking god
You say “crazy house of rectangles,” I say thank goodness Paul Rudolph’s Milam House found an owner who doesn’t want to tear it down. New story
@TandCmag
“This young man came up to me and said ‘I agree with everything you said. And my name is Robert Venturi.’ And I said ‘well why didn’t you say something then?'” DSB on how it all began
There’s almost TOO MUCH 21st-century urbanism in these Sidewalk Toronto renderings. Kites! Kayaks! Heatherwick balconies! Leftover industrial equipment painted cunning colors! Permeable pavements!
Two years ago I wrote about “No Small Plans,” a graphic novel for teens about urban planning
@NewYorker
. Just got an update that
@chiarchitecture
has distributed 8500+ free copies to students and is planning a “Design Your Neighborhood” summer camp
Y’all, they have edited the photo and removed the caption reference to Asawa — I think this actually *is a copy* as many have been saying in my mentions
At 'eclipse of criticism' symposium. First off Bob Somol, lamenting state of contemporary architectural criticism: 'bloggers who haven't even studied architecture like McMansion.' Poor research skills + superlative levels of ignorance and arrogance there Bob
@mcmansionhell
It’s been one week since my piece on toy libraries was published, and every day I get another great email from someone who wants to bring one to their town!
I’m dedicating my year-in-writing thread to WOMEN DOING THE WORK because I wrote about a lot of them this year.
#1
is the o.g. American woman architect, Julia Morgan
@nytimes
If you have never toured Parkchester in the Bronx (built by MetLife 1939-42, where my mother spent her early years) you really should — brick fans, terra cotta fans, housing fans, landscape fans