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		<title>LEED vs Green</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Kincl What, exactly, does it mean to be Green? And why does it matter? Consider these statistics: buildings consume about 40% of all energy in the United States. Of that, 84% is used in heating, cooling, hot water, electricity, lighting, etc. Only 12% is embedded in construction. 16% if you add maintenance and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lausterarchitect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9601005&amp;post=175&amp;subd=lausterarchitect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Light At Grade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Lauster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current show of the photographs by Robert Frank at the Metropolitan in New York is provocative on many levels. One is how dark and dreary New York and most other cities looked at the sidewalk level in the 1950s and 60s. Recent viewings of The French Connection (1972) and Seven Ups (1973), with its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lausterarchitect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9601005&amp;post=145&amp;subd=lausterarchitect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greenwich South — A Neighborhood Rejoins the City</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Lauster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month the Downtown Alliance revealed a conceptual plan for reestablishing Greenwich Street in the World Trade Center site, thus reconnecting Battery Park and the West Side up to the Meat Packing District. The twin towers plaza interrupted Greenwich Street for over thirty years, isolating the blocks south of it. The focus of the study [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lausterarchitect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9601005&amp;post=141&amp;subd=lausterarchitect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coney Island Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Lauster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coney Island’s high tide was in the first half of the 20th Century. By the 1960’s, like so much in New York, disinvestment and demographic change accompanied the decline of the amusement district. See the movie “The Warriors” for a 1970’s image of its fall. Fast forward to 2005. The area was weak but not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lausterarchitect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9601005&amp;post=73&amp;subd=lausterarchitect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building Green</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Lauster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Kincl and Charles Lauster It may have a shiny plaque at the entrance signifying LEED[1] Gold status, but the Seattle City Hall is an energy hog. According to The Seattle Post-Intelligencer[2] it uses up to 50% more power than the older, larger building it replaced. London’s City Hall, a futuristic glass egg designed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lausterarchitect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9601005&amp;post=68&amp;subd=lausterarchitect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At the WTC the PA May be Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Lauster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Speaker Sheldon Silver are complaining about the apparent intention of the Port Authority to scale back the World Trade Center project. They charge that the P.A. wants to go forward only with 1 WTC, formerly the Freedom Tower, and postpone the other four towers. In this dispute they are backing Lawrence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lausterarchitect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9601005&amp;post=70&amp;subd=lausterarchitect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State of the far Westside</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Lauster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the state of the far Westside appears in disarray. Five years ago the conventional wisdom was that the area had a coherent plan and it was on the brink of implementation. Today there is no conventional wisdom, only questions. The city, however, may be the better for this thrashing about.  What, exactly, happened to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lausterarchitect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9601005&amp;post=46&amp;subd=lausterarchitect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Piazza Times Square</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2000 00:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Lauster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK TIMES Op-Ed Submission The tussle over where to put a statue of Frank Sinatra illustrates a quandary in the planning triumph that is the new Times Square — there is no square there. In what is now one of New York’s greatest public spaces, increasing numbers of people are jammed onto the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lausterarchitect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9601005&amp;post=58&amp;subd=lausterarchitect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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