July 2006
Design Debate
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Backdoor: Design Debate Can architecture really be a means of social control? Walkable neighborhoods, public transportation, vernacular architecture … when Mississippi chose to rebuild its Katrina-battered coast according to the maxims of New Urbanism, many architects and planners rejoiced. But some also voiced fiery protests. In The Washington Post, architect Eric Owen Moss called it "right-wing developer-speak masquerading as populism." Marlon Blackwell, an architect and professor at the University of Arkansas, told The New York Times, "It uses historicism as a way to validate a kind of moralistic take on architecture." Annals of architecture. The criticism has roots in the
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