Pietro

In our Cities in a Global Society course, one of the fundamental themes is cosmopolitanism. I introduced the idea early in the course with the… Read More »Yazidis, ISIS, and aggressive cosmopolitanism

One of the peculiar traits of modern nation-states is that they try to collapse together a variety of things into one, politically-effective bundle: 1. The… Read More »The fight over the past: the politics of official history

In my Cities in a Global Society course, I have been pressing the point that we need to rethink organized political power. The classic English/German… Read More »The regime is…us

Hello Urban Design team! I want you to think about what sorts of regulations we want to recommend for this new North Bayshore community. Mountain… Read More »USP514: Re-thinking Zoning Codes

Hello Streetscape Team! Please take this post with a grain of skeptical salt. I want you to push new ideas and innovate. So here I… Read More »USP514: Thinking about streetscapes

As you know, I prefer free, open-source software and data. Thus I recommended QGIS rather than ArcGIS, and Blender rather than Rhino, 3DSMAX, or other… Read More »USP 514: SketchUp instead of Blender

Dear students, I have been mulling over how to clarify the tasks for the rest of the semester. The fact the Mountain View is seriously… Read More »Refining the task for USP514

Last week I briefly showed you what a first session in Quantum GIS looks like. Now I have revised the data to make it a… Read More »USP514: Basic GIS

In our studio we will study how to add more housing to Silicon Valley communities by evaluating the Shoreline West neighborhood in Mountain View. This… Read More »USP514: Thinking about density

Throughout the semester we will find a slew of articles related to sustainable urban development. Here are a few. 1. The Food Justice discussion on… Read More »USP514: Relevant issues