Posts tagged with “Jeff McMahon”

One City Art Movement, Open To Everyone

6 March 2008 | Philly Skyline

Taylor says to understand this current moment we have to travel back to the 1960s. Marcel Duchamp came here in 1961 for a panel discussion at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art (now UArts) and said prophetically, “Where do we go from here? The great artist of tomorrow will go underground.” .

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Nature’s Balance

10 January 2008 | Philly Skyline

“Density is our salvation,” says the landscape architect McGlade, and in Headhouse of course, there’s enough density of everything to make it a dynamic and transformative public space. But McGlade has in mind the efficiencies in energy, transportation, and land use brought about by density.

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Here Is The Possible City

21 September 2007 | Philly Skyline

It may be that all cities require people to dream, but in Philadelphia imagining a new city is the singular act of citizenship. We’re all of us ever-wondering what might be. We dream so intensely because we see the glowing possibility.

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