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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

How to Create a Vibrant Waterfront | Project for Public Spaces (PPS) Portal page for two additional links, “10 Qualities of a Great Waterfront” and “The 9 most important steps in revitalizing a waterfront.” The main worry for the authors here (“A common challenge is how to revitalize places where the river, lake or sea […]

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Jane Jacobs on “differences, not duplications”

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Rereading Jane Jacobs‘s classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and came across the following on p.169, in the chapter on “The Uses of City Neighborhoods”: Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial. Differences, not duplications, make for cross-use and […]

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