Mediocity (mē-dē-'ȯ-sə-tē)

Mediocity (or mee-dee-AH-si-tee) is created from an interest in how the general public interacts with, and engages, architecture and urban design. We operate this blog on the notion that not everything interesting has to be spectacular; and that we even find mediocrity, at times, more interesting than the spectacular. We are interested in how the middle-class consumes architecture. We are interested in how the general media represents architecture and urbanism to the general public. We are interested in the general public's apparent simultaneous interest and disinterest in architecture and urban design. We sense a disconnect between the architectural community and the general public and are not certain if we should be dismayed or if we should expect it. In this age of specialization, the general public seems disconnected from almost every profession. Yet the general public interacts with architecture and urban design on a daily basis, and although it may not have a cognitive impact on an individual's life, it has an impact nonetheless.


So the issues on which this blog will focus or address are:

  1. The relationship between architecture and urban design, and the general public - the intent: to gauge public involvement and interest in architecture and urban design, and the goal: to promote public awareness (think cognitive) of the impact of architecture and urban design.
  2. To promote sustainable urbanism - not just through a critique of urban sprawl, but by addressing both the positive and negative aspects of urban living, thereby searching for and advocating measures for improvement.

Nevada AerialAs evident, image from Google

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