Sure, one might assume that a bridge from Victoria BC on Vancouver Island to Vancouver BC on The Mainland would wake up Victoria – which is exactly why NIMBYs everywhere in the Capital Regional District who want to keep Victoria “sleepy” resist the notion with objections galore – but maybe it’s actually the case that […]
Better Blocks: One of Many Urban Acupuncture Needles Sounds like it’s all kind of symbolic – or rather, the “acupuncture” aspect is really extraneous. QUOTE Drawing from the ancient Chinese healing art, this strategy views cities as living, breathing organisms and pinpoints areas in need of repair. Sustainable projects, then, serve as needles that revitalize […]
James Mollison’s Photos of Children’s Bedrooms Are a Commentary on Class and Poverty – NYTimes.com Amazing photographs… QUOTE As much as the project is about the quirkiness of childhood, it is, more strikingly, a commentary on class and on poverty. But the diversity also provides a sense of togetherness. Everybody sleeps. And eventually, everybody grows […]
An Nivea skin-care-for-men ad campaign has caused a rash. Why? It’s disturbing and it’s a multifaceted racial put-down.
Some heartening signs. First: Read the Salon.com article, Tea Party people less popular than many other hated minority groups (subtitled: They may want “their country” back, but their country doesn’t really want them): This tiny band of fanatics is largely distrusted and despised by regular Americans, but a terrified media coddles them and pretends they’re […]
The Creator Of TED Aims To Reinvent Conferences Once Again | Co. Design Symposium-style v conference-presentation-style? QUOTE Not that anyone believes the slick-presentation conference approach will go away, nor should: Wurman thinks TED and other shows will continue to be crowd-pleasers. But he sees it as a 20th century model. “What I’m trying to think […]
Wake up GOP: Smashing system doesn’t fix it – CNN.com Great opinion piece by David Frum (a Republican). QUOTE Only about one-third of Republicans agree that cutting government spending should be the country’s top priority. Only about one-quarter of Republicans insist the budget be balanced without any tax increases. Yet that one-third and that one-quarter […]
I came here for the weather. Seriously. East Coast winters (cold) and East Coast summers (Triple-H: hot hazy humid) drove me bonkers. But global warming is making me feel a bit like Rick in Casablanca: misinformed. Misinformed – you know, that great line where Louis asks Rick why he came to Casablanca, to which Rick […]
I’ve been harboring a heretical thought in the wake of spending some time in the Bay Area this June: maybe cities of a certain size do better if they make at least some free parking available for downtown shoppers. Stopping in Palo Alto often during my Bay Area visit, I finally figured out that Palo […]
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