architecture and urban planning
The information referred to in my book which could not fit into the book including a chapter I wrote on cities, architecture, and urban planning
On the back cover of Volume I of my book, I refer to the book Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, an excerpt from which also appears in the thematic chapter Aspirations in at least 2 of the editions of the book Life Studies: a Thematic Reader, edited by David Cavitch, which is where I first read the excerpt. Below is the excerpt from the Fourth edition. I include it here mainly for the convenience of the readers of Volume I of my book. While that excerpt is about what can happen when a person first encounters books, I want to add my comments here about what might happen when a person, particularly as an adult, encounters ideas which are totally foreign to what they believe, based mainly on what they have been taught up to that point in their lives. It seems to me that there can only be one of a few reactions: confusion, impatience, dismissal, or rejection. Learning requires work, and I’m not sure that most people have the patience. I mention this subject because I believe most readers will have to deal with it in reading my books. I don’t think I can do anything more to make it easier to understand, although teachers might which is why I am interested in finding teachers to look at my book and teach it. I will comment on the subject of reading again in Volume III of my book.
Download – Rodriguez from Life studies a thematic reader
A chapter about cities, architecture, and urban planning which I had intended to include in Volume II of my book, but which was omitted for space reasons.
Download – Book About Books Part II outtakes 2019 Intro to Ch7
In 2011, Christchurch, New Zealand suffered a major earthquake in a geologically active area which substantially damaged extensive sections of the city, including the downtown area. A series of proposals were made and public meetings held to solicit opinions from residents and professionals about what the rebuilding should look like. While some might say that what the people there wanted to see for a city of that size and location would not apply to larger cities in other places, but I think this material is valuable and I don’t know of anything else like it. What if the people who live in cities could really decide the conditions in which they have to live? The chart with the balloons represents the degree of concern by the size of the balloons.
Christchurch, New Zealand urban planning literature
The following supplements my discussion of Food, Energy and Society by David and Marcia Pimentel in Chapter 7b of Volume II of my book. These are Mr. Ferguson’s choice of selections from the Pimentels’ book in order to summarize their ideas. I could not find Installment 3 from OPTJ Volume 9 Number 1, but much of that issue seems to be in the OPTJ file below.
I had originally intended to include a bibliography of Richard Taylor’s journal articles here, but the Foreword, Preface, and Introduction to Reflective Wisdom, selections from Richard Taylor’s writings, which I discuss in Chapter 8 of Volume II of my book, covers most of the same information and adds important biographical information as well. So I include that here instead.
Download – Richard Taylor from Reflective Wisdom
In Chapter 7d of Volume II of my book, I discuss the problem of garbage. This is from one study of what we throw away:
Download – Rubbish! the Archaeology of Garbage
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