News in Raleigh

The purpose of the crowd: “It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite. The crowd he needs is the dense crowd, in which body is pressed to body; a crowd, too, whose physical constitution is also dense, or compact, so that he no longer notices who it is that presses against him. As soon as a man has surrendered himself to the crowd, he ceases to fear its touch.

The Imagined City

Today city council discussed the current status of our low water supply and usage as well as the Hillsborough and Morgan St. roundabout proposal. More…

Britt Daniel of Spoon once sang “Give me something to look forward to.“
I don’t think he was talking about basketball.
But if he lived in Raleigh, he might change his mind.

New designs will be presented at the third hearing on the Hillsborough and Morgan Street roundabout tommorow

today, November 7th at 1 p.m. at 222 West Hargett Street in council chambers on the second floor.

Animation of the traffic design below the fold

DOCOMOMO, The International working party for documentation and conservation of building sites and neighborhoods of the modern movement, is a nationwide organization devoted to the preservation of mid-century architecture and it’s surroundings.

A North Carolina chapter of DOCOMOMO has recently opened and a Raleigh kick-off meeting has already been held at the Urban Design Center.

DOCOMOMO-NC is in the early stages of building a community of knowledgeable and enthusiastic people interested in modernism. The group plans to promote public interest through events, lectures and tours and will organize advocacy efforts to protect endangered sites and buildings.

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