The Case for Classic Streets

Using examples from around the world, I make the case for classic streets as an answer to today's traffic and road congestion problems.

Rube Goldberg is Alive and Well in Architecture: What happened to elegant engineering?

Using the analogy of Rube Goldberg's complicated machines and the example of Chinese cities, I discuss the missteps taken in the pursuit of sustainable modernist architecture, and what we can learn from our ancestors.