In an essay with the provocative title, “Bring me my arrows of desire: cities shaped by love,” Gayle Doornbos writes a review of Philip Bess’s book, “Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred.” For those who are unaware, Bess is a Notre Dame architecture professor who spoke to a Fort Wayne audience [...]
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Philip Bess: Cities shaped by love
by Jon Swerens on May 6, 2008, in Books, Community, Uncategorized, Urbanism
Philip Bess: Good cities are like pizzas
by Jon Swerens on April 21, 2008, in Architecture, Downtown, Urbanism
During his lecture last week, Philip Bess mentioned a tasty metaphor for good urban living. Comparing a city to a pizza is the idea of Leon Krier, whom Bess calls the most influential traditional urbanist of our time. As Bess says in his book, “Till We Have Built Jerusalem”: A neighborhood is to the larger [...]
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