Transforming Blight Into a Destination – Design – The Atlantic Cities Fantastic. Putting imagination back into infrastructure. (How much we could have needed that in Victoria BC, both with regard to the Johnson Street Bridge and with the View + Vancouver streets intersection… QUOTE “The strategy is how to integrate the entire community so that […]
The meaning of 9/11’s most controversial photo | Jonathan Jones | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk What a huge load of baloney. Iconology at its WORST. QUOTE The critic and columnist Frank Rich wrote about [THIS PHOTO] in the New York Times. He saw in this undeniably troubling picture an allegory of America’s failure to […]
Two Rolling Stone articles by Matt Taibbi; one Seeking Alpha article about Simon Johnson’s EU talk; one EarthFuture article by Guy Dauncey.
What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really? | NeuroTribes Intriguing: QUOTE One of the most memorable lines in Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind is Suzuki-roshi’s statement, “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” Suzuki didn’t want his senior students to take a seat on the cushion each […]
Why Did Some Streetcars Survive When Most Didn’t? – Commute – The Atlantic Cities Interesting discussion of streetcars’ ability to cement a sense of place (which buses can’t do): QUOTE … the old New Orleans streetcar is inextricably linked to the city it navigates. This sense of permanency is a big reason for the St. […]
The Folly of City-Owned Parking Garages – Commute – The Atlantic Cities Really glad to see a lot of push-back in the comments against Matthew Yglesias’s blanket rant against publicly- or city-owned parking garages. I think the argument is ignorant and completely ignores different realities, literally on the ground. I “liked” a number of the […]
Why Walkable Cities Aren’t Always the Ones You’d Think – Commute – The Atlantic Cities Well, the old CBD – Central Business District – (as a monoculture of urban downtowns) sure seems to be taking a back seat… QUOTE All of this is leading to something of a convergence across America’s best neighborhoods, a morphing […]
Euro fund ‘like a Ponzi game’ says trader – BBC News Whoops… QUOTE Mike Johnson: It’s an extraordinary thing to get your head around. Let me just get this clear, what we are going to have is a situation where countries which are on the verge of bankruptcy are going to be borrowing money effectively […]
Public Art, Sold to the Highest Bidder – Arts & Lifestyle – The Atlantic Cities Strange idea (given historical notions of patronage), but interesting: selling public art that’s no longer wanted to private buyers. QUOTE This is an idea that’s taken hold in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, where large-scale sculptures are installed […]