Archive for April, 2010
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Pulchraphilia, a new word coined by Jason McLennan, makes the case for designing green and sustainable buildings with beauty in mind. This makes environmental stewardship easier, for humans are hard-wired to love beauty.
Filed under: architecture, cities, ideas, social_critique, urbanism. |
Tags: beauty, cascadia, jason_mclenna, pulchraphilia
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
“You measure what matters, and what gets measured, gets done.” That’s how Eric Hespenheide put it at this afternoon’s MIT Enterprise Forum event, live-streamed at UVic. …And I have to admit I felt a deep admiration for – perhaps jealousy of? – numbers crunchers who can make this real. Me? I’d probably get too absorbed […]
Filed under: business, green, innovation. |
Tags: environment, mit_enterprise uvic, sustainability
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
Reading Roger Martin’s The Opposable Mind makes me wonder when local governments will bid conventional thinking good-bye and awaken instead to the possibilities of integrative thinking.
Filed under: ideas, innovation, johnson street bridge, leadership, social_critique, urbanism, victoria. |
Tags: integrative_thinking, opposable_mind, roger_martin
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Bridging Ecological Research and Urban Design | brighttalk.com Useful site with upcoming and archived webcasts; this is the section on Architecture, Construction, and Engineering. tags: research, design, brighttalk, webcasts, video, reference, architecture, urban_design, ecological_urbanism Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat I had no idea a Council on Tall Buildings existed! QUOTE The Council on […]
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Saturday, April 17th, 2010
Two kids fashion a raft from beach detritus and paddle out into the Juan de Fuca Strait. Derring-do, foolishness, or adventure?
Filed under: just_so, vancouver_island, victoria. |
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Friday, April 16th, 2010
Following up on my post from yesterday, Change vs Development: Is there a difference?, a couple of additional thoughts. To me, change implies a change of state, a switch from one thing to another. I can change the template of this blog, for example. That’s a minor, inconsequential change, but still a change. Development is […]
Filed under: authenticity, urbanism, victoria. |
Tags: change, development
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
The way to make sure absolutely that all you ever get is utter crap change is to resist development at every turn: that’s almost guaranteed to deliver nasty surprises.
Filed under: authenticity, heritage, jane_jacobs, land_use, urbanism, victoria. |
Tags: hallmark_society, historic_preservation
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
I’m listening to a couple of Kraftwerk CDs that my son requested for his birthday: Die Menschmaschine and Trans Europa Express. There are a number of good links on Youtube for those who need a Kraftwerk refresher: Die Roboter (ignore the intro) and Das Modell, for example. When both Kraftwerk and I were younger and […]
Filed under: arts, fashionable_life, ideas. |
Tags: kraftwerk, music
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Creating a floor plan from memory triggers several insights about why and how I accumulate stuff in my life, and why subconscious behaviors continue to shape my present.
Filed under: writing. |
Tags: clutter, organizing
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