{"id":10281,"date":"2017-04-10T20:29:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T00:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10281"},"modified":"2021-01-09T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T19:04:07","slug":"episode-213-sarah-williams-goldhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-213-sarah-williams-goldhagen","title":{"rendered":"Episode 213 – Sarah Williams Goldhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show 213:
\nSarah Williams Goldhagen<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The built environment is not inert. It’s an active agent in the shaping of people’s lives.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Why are our buildings crushing our quality of life? Sarah Williams Goldhagen<\/a> joins the show to talk about her new book, Welcome to Your World<\/a>\"\" (Harper), and how we can live in a better built environment. We get into cognitive neuroscience and the theory of mind-body-environment consciousness, the perils of lowest-common-denominator construction and design, the perils of the “starchitect” phenomenon, the limits of Jane Jacobs’ urban proscriptions, the experience of going on urban planning vacations as a kid with her dad, how she and her family wound up living in a converted church in East Harlem<\/a>, the challenges of architecture criticism, how her book was predicted by one of my favorite 1980s comics, the planning process a year-long around-the-world trip, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Welcome to Your World<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“It’s all architecture, and it all needs to be as well-designed as you can make it. And at any level of investment, you can make a better building or a worse building.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n