Quoth the Fellows: Balsley, Greenberg, & Sennett

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:09:29 +0000

One of the most prolific designers of Privately-Owned Public Spaces (POPS), Thomas Balsley (pictured at left), came out in support of these small-scale but recently-high-profile places in the New York Observer, voicing a hope that POPS will not be the ’scapegoat’ of the reaction to the Occupy movement: “The fact that a tiny POPS park was made to act in lieu of a dedicated civic forum for popular protest should serve to remind all of us of NYC’s greater obligation to create a new and more innovative kind of public space to do what POPS can’t.” At the Downtown X-posed symposium in Edmonton, Ken Greenberg made a case for universities as anchor institutions in urban revitalization efforts in his keynote address, stating plainly that “Educational institutions are key city builders.” And in a BBC Radio segment with artist Andrew Gormley on public space and public art, Richard Sennett argued that “The really exciting things that we can do with public art are not monumental…There are lots of small-scale places that need our attention. Grandeur is not what we want in our cities today.” (See also: SFGate has an excerpt from Richard’s forthcoming book Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Collaboration).

Steven Handel Awarded National Honor Award for Research

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:00:49 +0000

Congratulations to Institute fellow Steven Handel who was awarded the National Honor Award for Research for a series of studies exploring ecological restoration processes to enhance urban landscape design from the American Society for Landscape Architects and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.

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Quoth the Fellows: Balsley, Greenberg, & Sennett

Steven Handel Awarded National Honor Award for Research