Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: More on Making Community

[J . Massengale (J.Massengale]

>>You stated back a few messages that neighborhoods can't be evaluated-- well
that's not right--and that's the problem.

No, I said they can't be "scientifically" (your word) evaluated. Your posts
have made my point very well -- you have strong biases and skewed, incomplete
criteria.

The list of criteria you posted was good, as far as it went, but seriously
incomplete.

And, of course, you couldn't resist saying that what a building looks like is
irrelevant. Anyone who believes that clearly should not be involved in
choosing or advising on an architect.

>>Have you contacted Jan Gehl?

Where can I look at the physical results of his ideas?

Did you look at Newsweek?

Or any of the following?

Calthorpe, Peter, *The Next American Metropolis*(Princeton, Princeton
Architectural Press, 1993).

Duany, Andres & Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth, *Towns and Town-Making
Principles*(New York, Rizzoli International Publications, 1991).

Hegemann & Peet, *Civic Art*(Princeton, Princeton Architectural Press, 1990).
Reprint.

Hiss, Tony, *The Experience of Place*(New York, Knopf, 1990).

Jackson, Kenneth, *The Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of
America*(New York, Oxford University Press, 1987).

Jacobs, Alan, *Great Streets*(Cambridge, MIT Press, 1994).

Jacobs, Jane, *The Death and Life of Great American Cities*(New York, Vintage
Books, 1992). Paperback; one of many reprints.

Katz, Peter, *The New Urbanism*(New York, McGraw-Hill, 1993).

Kunstler, James Howard, *The Geography of Nowhere*(New York, Simon &
Schuster, 1993).

Massengale, John Montague & Stern, Robert A.M., *The Anglo-American
Suburb*(New York, St. Martin's Press, 1981). Also Architectural Design
Profile 37, Vol. 51, No. 10/11.

Unwin, Raymond, *Town Planning in Practice*(New York, Ayer Company
Publications, 1969). Reprint.

Whyte, William, *City: Rediscovering the Center* (New York, Doubleday, 1988).