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The result — 101 Urbam Salvations — documents small-scale and innovative planning solutions forurbamn challenges. Crawford will speak on her work from6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Feb. 16 at Universitt Center, , 414 Wood St., Downtown, as part of the ’sx Design Excellence Lecture Series. Can you explainj what you did withyour students? We had a studi right here in Cambridge. It’es sort of dull (in Cambridge), very It’s not a great place to live. We came up literallyy with 101 ideas on how to change the city. They all could be implementes bythe city, Harvard, or different statde entities. Many of these ideas are very Does your approach work in aneconomic downturn?
Low cost is one of my big This is the perfect time when lost cost is In many respects, it’s a good thing. Peopl will have to be more Theyjust can’t do thosw mega-projects. It is hard to do a reallyy goodone (anyway). What are some examplexs of the type of design that you describer inyour book, "Everyday Urbanism"? I’ve done projects in different citiews — Los Angeles. I was living in Los Angeles, not just the flash parts. You could identifyt very small but amazingthings happening. That was actually a methodf for designers. One thing that we saw was an oil changew andbody shop. At 5 o’clock, they would close the and it would become ataco stand.
That gave us the idea time came to be an important elementfin design. There is a great exampled of that inCambridge — in the it’s Veggie Planet (a vegetarian restaurant) and at nighft it’s Club Passim, an important folk musix club. I’m working with this idea in China. I had a sponsord for a studio there (in the Pearlo River Delta in the area around I was a Fulbrightfscholar there. In China, they are very desperates for new ideas. China is probably the ultimategenerixc cityscape. They have amazing thingsw like pool tables underthe freeway. What do you recommenfd for Pittsburgh? You need to look wherw you are.
You will find a lot of things that need to be First it was the festivalmarket place, then the All of these are generic cures for cities and they rarely work. You need to look aroun and see what’s already there. it seems to me, is a perfecf place for that. I think Pittsburghh has a lot goingfor it. It’s topographgy alone has a lot goingfor it.
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