{"id":1130,"date":"2009-02-01T02:30:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T09:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2009-02-02T15:02:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T22:02:12","slug":"the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2009\/02\/01\/the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-16\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/article\/578823\">Can Toronto learn to love winter?, by Christopher Hume (Toronto Star)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Christopher Hume asks if Torontonians (living along the largest river in Egypt?) can learn to love it &#8211; winter, that is. What I find particularly useful are the suggestions for &#8230;urban winter stations (for want of a better name). See highlighted bits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/thestar\">thestar<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/christopher_hume\">christopher_hume<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/toronto\">toronto<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/winter\">winter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/urban_amenities\">urban_amenities<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/business\/2009\/01\/mark-gorton-ceo.html\">LimeWire Creator Brings Open-Source Approach to Urban Planning | Epicenter from Wired.com<\/a><span class=\"diigo-link-opts\"> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/annotated?uid=2853&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.wired.com%2Fbusiness%2F2009%2F01%2Fmark-gorton-ceo.html\">Annotated<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Mark Gorton, software entrepreneur, turns to urban planning (transportation, specifically), using opensource to revolutionize planning.<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nYou might call it a &#8220;P2P-to-people&#8221; initiative &#8212; these efforts to make cities more people-friendly are partly funded by people sharing files.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the only connection between open-source software and Gorton&#8217;s vision for livable cities. The top-down culture of public planning stands to benefit by employing methods he&#8217;s lifting from the world of open-source software: crowdsourced development, freely-accessible data libraries, and web forums, as well as actual open-source software with which city planners can map transportation designs to people&#8217;s needs. Such modeling software and data existed in the past, but it was closed to citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Gorton&#8217;s open-source model would have a positive impact on urban planning by opening up the process to a wider audience, says Thomas K. Wright, executive director of the Regional Plan Association, an organization that deals with urban planning issues in the New York metropolitan area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;99 percent of planning in the United States is volunteer citizens on Tuesday nights in a high school gym,&#8221; Wright says. &#8220;Creating a software that can reach into that dynamic would be very profound, and open it up, and shine light on the decision-making. Right now, it becomes competing experts trying to out-credential each other in front of these citizen and volunteer boards&#8230; [Gorton] could actually change the whole playing field.&#8221;<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<br \/>\nYes!<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/wired_magazine\">wired_magazine<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/mark_gorton\">mark_gorton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/open_source\">open_source<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/local_government\">local_government<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/urbanplanning\">urbanplanning<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/cities\">cities<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/limewire\">limewire<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/transportation\">transportation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.richardhowe.net\/zMSC\/index-msc.html\">Richard Howe &#8211; THE MANHATTAN STREET CORNERS<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Interesting docu-project by Richard Howe: photographing every street *<strong>corner<\/strong>* in New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/nyc\">nyc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/photography\">photography<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/richard_howe\">richard_howe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/street_scape\">street_scape<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/usage\">usage<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rubbersidewalks.com\/WhySaveTrees.asp\">Rubbersidewalks &#8211; Why Save Trees?<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Excellent resource on urban forests, benefits thereof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/rubbersidewalks\">rubbersidewalks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/trees\">trees<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/urban_forest\">urban_forest<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/reference\">reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/web\/22025\/?nlid=1725&amp;a=f\">&#8220;Wiki Your Town Council &#8211; New effort seeks a database on all U.S. elected officials,&#8221; by David Talbot (MIT Technology Review)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Article about American Solutions, &#8220;a national grassroots group based in Washington, DC, that was founded by former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich but describes its Internet effort as nonpartisan, is preparing to launch a site that will, at first, allow people to enter basic contact information on all local officials. Then future users can enter their full nine-digit zip code to find the local officials who represent them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/wiki\">wiki<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/local_government\">local_government<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/open_source\">open_source<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/politics\">politics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/mit_techreview\">mit_techreview<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/american_solutions\">american_solutions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu\">Danteworlds<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Danteworlds, an integrated multimedia journey&#8211;combining artistic images, textual commentary, and audio recordings&#8211;through the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante&#8217;s Divine Comedy. The site is structured around a visual representation of Dante&#8217;s worlds: it shows who and what appear where.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/literature\">literature<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/dante\">dante<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/multimedia\">multimedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/classics\">classics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/learning\">learning<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/texas_university\">texas_university<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wallflowerdispatches.com\/?p=262\">1927 photograph by August Sander<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallflowerdispatches.com\/\">Wallflower dispatches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note: no overhead power lines. Yay. (And this photo is from 1927&#8230;!)  Also: no trees or plants on boulevard &#8230;hm. Not so yay?<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>But<\/strong>* &#8211; people put flower pots and plant baskets on their window sills. (Not visible in this picture, because it&#8217;s obviously not spring or summer; the subject is wearing winter clothes.)<\/p>\n<p>Greenery in the city: did the individual &#8220;green&#8221; her city first?<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wallflowerdispatches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/vintage-ar-1927-von-august-sander-ret_bearbeitet-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/>I was born in Duesseldorf&#8217;s <em>Altstadt<\/em> (Old Town), at home in an apartment house that looks like any one of the ones pictured here. There is a park across the street from <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=bergerallee+1,+duesseldorf,+germany&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=30.544155,79.101563&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=51.224061,6.769595&amp;spn=0.011772,0.038624&amp;t=h&amp;z=15&amp;iwloc=addr\">1 Bergerallee<\/a>, and the Rhine flows nearby, flanked by a promenade\/ park. But Bergerallee also has no trees or greenery, except for what residents provide in pots. It&#8217;s nonetheless more than tolerable.Note the wide, wide boulevards, perfect for summertime street furniture, cafes, children playing. How did Sander catch the city so deserted-looking, I wonder&#8230;?\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/photography\">photography<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/memoir\">memoir<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/duesseldorf\">duesseldorf<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/berlin\">berlin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/august_sander\">august_sander<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\">favorite links<\/a> are here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Toronto learn to love winter?, by Christopher Hume (Toronto Star) Christopher Hume asks if Torontonians (living along the largest river in Egypt?) can learn to love it &#8211; winter, that is. 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