It’s a day shy of July, and I had hoped that by now there would be a “finish” to some still-open “action items.” But things are not quite yet falling into place. It’s not entirely my “fault,” but I confess that I’m skidding into inefficiency myself. At the same time, I’m reluctant to beat myself […]
Rate Your City Councillor : Rating Toronto and Vancouver City Councillors & Alderman More like this, please: I so WANT this for Victoria: an online feedback tool to rate your city’s councilors. So far available only for Toronto and Vancouver, but, one hopes, soon to expand to other Canadian cities. PS: of course you can […]
This week will continue in “blogging lite” mode as kids race to finish certain commitments that involve some help from me in the transportation department, while I take a stab at housekeeping on a couple of real and virtual fronts. My brain is on fire with a wild idea, sparked by last week’s UDI luncheon […]
Inga Saffron’s Philadelphia Inquirer column about a recent speech by Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter includes this great sound bite from the mayor: “We are a walkable city, increasingly home to bicycles,” Nutter declared. “We want to preserve our urban form. We do not want the automobile and its design requirements to dominate the landscape.” [emphasis […]
Edit/update (see end of post) It’s called “take two” because I started an earlier post with the “Still here” title. Somehow, that never made it past the “draft” phase… This is just a quickie to let whoever still reads here know that I haven’t spontaneously combusted or anything. It’s busy around me, which is a […]
Nature’s Photonic Crystal, by Kristina Grifantini (MIT Technology Review) – Annotated File this under “I HEART biomimicry!” Amazing piece about scientists discovering that a lowly Brazilian beetle manufactures –chemically! — scales that essentially function as a photonic crystal structure for visible light. Now the scientists are not only making molds or copies of the beetles […]
(Note: might add some links/ photos later, but no time now — written on the fly…) Dan Bertolet of Hugeasscity hits all the right points in his discussion of what makes a good urban plaza. He includes a “wow!” photo of Seattle’s Garden of Remembrance, which, with its relatively steep grade, allows for steps oriented […]
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