David Byrne Urban Designer
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/01/david-byrne-to-speak-on-congress-for-new-urbanism.html
I am always interested to discover places in the world where music and architecture converge. At the Congress for New Urbanism, legendary musician David Byrne will be speaking about his 'bycycle diaries' and living in cities. He always wrote great songs about cities and buildings, so why not? In fact, why has it taken this long for this to happen?
David should know that the Congress for New Urbanism is a somewhat reactionary urban design organization that promotes a nostalgic version of cities that developers seem to like because it densifies suburbia - better, more urban living AND more profit. I get the density concept - but why not put your efforts into existing ciies and not minor improvements to sprawl? Or am I missing something? I don't think so.
David, watch out!
So, I am excited to learn that ex-Talking Head David Byrne will be talking to this group about riding bikes in cities and other things he likes about cities. Might be worth checking out!
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