Crosscut Seattle – The founder of ArtsJournal talks about arts and new media Much to think on in this great interview by James Bash with Douglas McLennan, the founder of ArtsJournal. “Curation” is definitely my word du jour — I’ve seen it come up again and again recently, in relation to *very* different products and […]
Ok, so I ranted (again) about the state of wireless in Canada, and how (to my mind) it connects with the urban development issues (and even public transit issues!) I feel strongly about. But today was a bad day to get me on cell phone issues, since I just got a $60 bill for basically […]
» Book Review: Urban Nation, by Alan Broadbent • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape Book review of Alan Broadbent’s Urban Nation, by Spacing’s Dylan Reid. From May 2/08 (missed this when it came out). tags: alan_broadbent, spacing.ca, cities, canada, municipal_funding, infrastructure_funding Paul Krugman Joins Team Density | hugeasscity danb comments on Paul Krugman’s […]
Here’s a great blog post by BLDGBLOG‘s Geoff Manaugh, Forgotten Architects, where he details Myra Wahrhaftig‘s research project on German Jewish architects who were suppressed and banned from practicing in Nazi Germany. Some of Wahrhaftig’s work is now published by the Pentragram Papers (and here); there is also a German-language lexicon with 500 biographies, Deutsche […]
Place Wars – Seattle vs. Silicon Valley (Richard Florida and The Creative Class Exchange) tags: business, creatives, richard_florida, seattle, silicon_valley, technology Florida points to two techologists, one SV-based (Michael Arrington), the other now once again Seattle-based (Glenn Kelman), having a bit of a dust-up over whether one region/ city is better than the other. Robert […]
We’re afraid of everything, for crying out loud, by Christopher Hume (Toronto Star) Annotated tags: change, christopher_hume, fear, toronto, urbanization Hume is on a rant against the Chicken Littles here. I can relate only too well… His description of the fear of change and how this is different from the 60s & 70s relates, I […]
» Toronto Prairie: Our (almost) missing style • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape tags: architecture, frank_lloyd_wright, prairie_style, spacing.ca, textile_block_system, toronto Short post by Spacing Toronto’s Thomas Wicks on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie Style, specifically one lone example of same in Deer Park, a suburban T.O. neighbourhood. I added a comment, re. the house’s […]