Vital public placessquares, post office steps, playgrounds, street cornersare centers of joyful celebration, heartbroken communion, civic discussion, or for simply hanging out. Squares is intended to help designers, planners, public officials, students, developers, and community leaders understand the history and theories of public commons, elicit community dialogue and desires, respond to the natural and built environment, and design compelling places.
Mark C. Childs contends that places built to support conviviality are critical components of a good town. He includes theory, brief case...
Vital public placessquares, post office steps, playgrounds, street cornersare centers of joyful celebration, heartbroken communion, civic discussion, ...
In the mid-twentieth century Eddie s Inferno Cocktail Lounge, Bunny Bread, Paris Shoe Shop, and many other businesses throughout New Mexico and the Southwest displayed eye-catching roadside signs created by the Zeon Corporation. These works of commercial art featured unique designs, irregular shapes, dynamic compositions, and neon light. The legendary fiesta dancer at the Albuquerque Terrace drive-in theater, for example, was well-known for the grace of its lines, its enormous size, and its flashing neon skirt. Created during a time before the simplified icons of major chains, many of...
In the mid-twentieth century Eddie s Inferno Cocktail Lounge, Bunny Bread, Paris Shoe Shop, and many other businesses throughout New Mexico and the...
