JHK’s Three-Act Play
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page
Andres Duany is a key founder of the New Urbanist movement. His Miami-based firm, DPZ, with wife and partner Lizz Plater-Zyberk, designed the iconic new town, Seaside, Florida, and scores of other excellent projects in the USA and around the world. Andres continues to lead the way in urban design and in these turbulent times, I think you’ll appreciate communing with his fiercely humorous intelligence.
The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger.
Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/kunstlercast/KunstlerCast_338.mp3
Please send questions and comments to jhkunstler@mac.com
This blog is sponsored this week by:
McAlvany ICA.
To learn more visit: //icagoldcompany.com/
And also by:
Sage Restoration *
high quality, traditional varnishes, paints
and other products for building preservation.
SageRestoration.com
Plus, for Pure Reading Pleasure
Interesting POV. The seminal, watershed event of the 1st quarter of the 20th century wasn’t WW1 then, but the Spanish Flu epidemic 1918-1920.
I really liked this podcast. I googled Andres after listening to it because all through the podcast I kept thinking ” omg, what a Cuban’. He sounds just like Andy Garcia. Wikipedia shows him to be born in New York, but…..The way he speaks, his emphasis on certain things, etc. CUBAN. I love Cuba and there are certain things about Cubans that are bell ringers…lol. Maybe I am wrong. If he ever wants extensive photos of Cuban residential homes, Jim has my email. I mean Nuevo Vedado, & many other interesting homes all over the country. Architectural change was a movement before the Revolution. . I smiled when he talked about building onto to existing structures because of course one sees this all the time in Cuba. The upper floor being added. And of course the inner courtyard he appeared to be speaking from. Very Cuban. They do so much with so little because they are so adaptive and intelligent. The Mexicans are said to be fascinated by the Cubans….”The Jews of the Carribbean”.
I think one other important aspect of ‘where people will migrate to’ has to include air transport. It’s one thing to live away from urban centres, grow more of your own food, live in smaller more connected communities, but if you want to travel you will still want to be near major airports.
BRH” a combination of the two, I think. So many men signed up for duty because it represented a way out of poverty ( if only temporarily they may have thought). And how were they ever to recover from the horrors of what they witnessed and come back and lead so called normal lives afterward. The really interesting point Andres made was that is was only a small fraction of people who represented our current version of the ‘Roaring Twenties’, the so called ‘Flappers”, etc.
What was really going on was more grim, but we like to remember history selectively. ‘Spin” isn’t so new after all… It’s been around a while. Thank you Jim for bringing this very interesting individual and his ideas to me..
Well. I just googled a bit more and I see my spider sense was accurate. He is Cuban if not by birth. So funny.
I guess his family is probably from Havana given the history. I love Santiago. Avispas! Mi equipo siempre!
Re guerilla urbanism, I believe the term of art is “It is easier to obtain forgiveness than permission.” Terrific interview, I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot. Thanks, keep up the good work.