{"id":4995,"date":"2011-11-20T21:40:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T05:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2011-11-20T21:39:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T05:39:18","slug":"the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2011\/11\/20\/the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-149\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/design\/2011\/11\/landscape-infrastructure\/486\">Transforming Blight Into a Destination &#8211; Design &#8211; The Atlantic Cities<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">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&#8230;<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\n\u201cThe strategy is how to integrate the entire community so that in the end they feel that it is theirs, that they own it. The city and the developers start to fall away in the background. If that happens then you\u2019ll probably have a successful project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aquino says that these strategies haven\u2019t really been figured out yet. Public-private partnerships seem to be important for maintaining new parks, but initial funding can be hard to come by. When infrastructure projects are necessary, Aquino says the money will come through. Making that money work harder to create more than a new alleyway or drainage canal is a strategy more cities are likely to take.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/landscape_architecture\">landscape_architecture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/landscape_infrastructure\">landscape_infrastructure<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/infrastructure\">infrastructure<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/cities\">cities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/urban_renewal\">urban_renewal<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/urban_parks\">urban_parks<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-11-14\/amazon-e-library-is-publishing-s-profit-model-virginia-postrel.html\">Amazon E-Library Is Publishing\u2019s Profit Model: Virginia Postrel &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">More on Amazon.<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nOne thing is certain, however. Publishers are in trouble. They think their problem is that they are losing their retailers. But the real danger is that, over time, they are going to lose their authors as well. No wonder they are afraid of Amazon.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/virginia_postrel\">virginia_postrel<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/amazon\">amazon<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/publishing\">publishing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/16\/us\/ann-patchett-bucks-bookstore-tide-opening-her-own.html?_r=1&amp;smid=tw-nytimesbooks&amp;seid=auto\">Ann Patchett Bucks Tide of Bookstore Closings by Opening Her Own &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Cool. Customer service. Niche. Go.<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nDaniel Goldin, the owner of the Boswell Book Company, lavished her with advice over dinner at Beans and Barley, a health-food cafe on the city\u2019s East Side. Put the children\u2019s section as far away from the front door as possible. Hang signs from the ceiling, and customers will buy whatever is advertised on them. And make your store comforting and inclusive, smart but not snobby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world has changed so much \u2014 it\u2019s sort of everybody against Amazon,\u201d Mr. Goldin said last week. \u201cThe customer relationship is way more important than it used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parnassus, like hundreds of other independents across the country, will also sell e-books through Google, to lure the many customers who have shifted to Nooks, Kindles and iPads.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/bookstores\">bookstores<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/ann_patchett\">ann_patchett<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/karen_hayes\">karen_hayes<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/nashville\">nashville<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/nyt\">nyt<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/commerce\">commerce<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldarchitecturenews.com\/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&amp;upload_id=18059\">WorldArchitectureNews: The Atrium, D&#8217;Ambrosio Architecture + Urbanism<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Nice shout-out to Victoria BC architect Franc D&#8217;Ambrosio&#8217;s Atrium building:<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nA transparent ground floor, housing cafes and restaurants, invites people to approach, look in and stay a while. Rain gardens edge the site, a first for a private development in Victoria, catching and cleaning polluted street run-off, and softening the cityscape. The building is organised around the seven-storey wood-clad interior atrium, which introduces daylight into the heart of the structure. The wood, visible from the street night and day through a full-height glass wall at the atrium&#8217;s south end, distinguishes the building and invites the public to animate this urban room.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/victoria\">victoria<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/franc_dambrosio\">franc_dambrosio<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/architecture\">architecture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/atrium\">atrium<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/urbanism\">urbanism<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"diigo-ps\">Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transforming Blight Into a Destination &#8211; Design &#8211; The Atlantic Cities Fantastic. Putting imagination back into infrastructure. 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