Excellent idea, brian, to have a daily environmental
report along with news, entertainment, sports, church,
business, blogs and the lot.
One way to do that is to, sorry, commercialize the
information, as has been done with all the other news
categories. Business is now the prime subject of nearly
all news no matter the category. At least in the NY Times,
where the business side of art, sport, entertainment, etc
leads the news of those subjects.
Once business was in the business section, now its all
over the media, including about the media business itself.
Curiously, quaintly, architecture, at least in the NYT, still
sticks to aesthetics and rarely gets into the nitty gritty of
the construction business. To be sure, there is vast
coverage of real estate-type "architecture," indeed real
estate ads are the leading source of income for the NYT
as with many newspapers.
The consequence, for architecture, is that it is critiqued
virtually in a vacuum while the real estate and construction
industires rampage at will, usually totally supported by
the profession of architecture.
Same is true of environmental depredation: weather reports
say nothing about that unless there is a catastropher like
hurricane, tornado, flood, then the billion-dollar repair
costs get headlines just like building collapses get
sensational, evanescent coverage.
Some think that Muschamp committed suicide by real estate
when he intervened in WTC resuscitation. Ada Huxtable
lamented that she was booted from the Times because
she too often castigaged real estate thuggery. Goldberger
never did that and survived until he ran out of vapid
econmiums and apologies and divertissements for the
savages.
I'm reminded of this facadism which hides architectural
and environmental exploitation by a theater facade standing
near Times Square, massively braced, awaiting construction
of yet another zoning-bloated leviathan behind it.
Wasn't the vile practice of saving facades of historic structures
originated in Philadelphia, Steve, the fountainhead of
American preservation ever eager to get in bed with real
estate vultures?
Finally, quite a number of states have united commerce
and environmental protection in a single agency, and regulate
both under the rubric of "development." Similar to the way
the AIA describes the profession of architecture a sub-category
of the construction industry, which in turn is called a sub-category
of the real estate industry, which in turn is called a sub-catergory
of the finance industry, which in turn is called a sub-category of
the investment industry, and so on down into the imaginary
world of highest value with least content, dare it be called
the scarem threats of national security, bedrock of the
founding, ahem, fathers, at the horrific expense of the
all too trusting natives.
Ward Churchill wishfully prognosticates some people push
back, but unfortunately, most do not, the historic facades so
mesmerize with soothing and alarming weather forecasts.
report along with news, entertainment, sports, church,
business, blogs and the lot.
One way to do that is to, sorry, commercialize the
information, as has been done with all the other news
categories. Business is now the prime subject of nearly
all news no matter the category. At least in the NY Times,
where the business side of art, sport, entertainment, etc
leads the news of those subjects.
Once business was in the business section, now its all
over the media, including about the media business itself.
Curiously, quaintly, architecture, at least in the NYT, still
sticks to aesthetics and rarely gets into the nitty gritty of
the construction business. To be sure, there is vast
coverage of real estate-type "architecture," indeed real
estate ads are the leading source of income for the NYT
as with many newspapers.
The consequence, for architecture, is that it is critiqued
virtually in a vacuum while the real estate and construction
industires rampage at will, usually totally supported by
the profession of architecture.
Same is true of environmental depredation: weather reports
say nothing about that unless there is a catastropher like
hurricane, tornado, flood, then the billion-dollar repair
costs get headlines just like building collapses get
sensational, evanescent coverage.
Some think that Muschamp committed suicide by real estate
when he intervened in WTC resuscitation. Ada Huxtable
lamented that she was booted from the Times because
she too often castigaged real estate thuggery. Goldberger
never did that and survived until he ran out of vapid
econmiums and apologies and divertissements for the
savages.
I'm reminded of this facadism which hides architectural
and environmental exploitation by a theater facade standing
near Times Square, massively braced, awaiting construction
of yet another zoning-bloated leviathan behind it.
Wasn't the vile practice of saving facades of historic structures
originated in Philadelphia, Steve, the fountainhead of
American preservation ever eager to get in bed with real
estate vultures?
Finally, quite a number of states have united commerce
and environmental protection in a single agency, and regulate
both under the rubric of "development." Similar to the way
the AIA describes the profession of architecture a sub-category
of the construction industry, which in turn is called a sub-category
of the real estate industry, which in turn is called a sub-catergory
of the finance industry, which in turn is called a sub-category of
the investment industry, and so on down into the imaginary
world of highest value with least content, dare it be called
the scarem threats of national security, bedrock of the
founding, ahem, fathers, at the horrific expense of the
all too trusting natives.
Ward Churchill wishfully prognosticates some people push
back, but unfortunately, most do not, the historic facades so
mesmerize with soothing and alarming weather forecasts.