{"id":5224,"date":"2012-03-18T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T00:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=5224"},"modified":"2012-03-18T17:52:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T00:52:54","slug":"the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2012\/03\/18\/the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-163\/","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\/arts-and-lifestyle\/2012\/03\/city-covered-logos\/1481\">The City, Covered With Logos &#8211; Arts &amp; Lifestyle &#8211; The Atlantic Cities<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Corporate brand imagery as kudzu. Great points.<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nThe logo-ing of our cities and neighborhoods is this process in reverse. Instead of borrowing the ambiance and associations of a place, the product infests it with its own characterless generica, diminishing and voiding out its authentic qualities. The omnipresent logos, like a kind of corporate kudzu, cover and conquer all.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/richard_florida\">richard_florida<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/atlantic_cities\">atlantic_cities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/branding\">branding<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/marketing\">marketing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/cities\">cities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/advertising\">advertising<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/neighborhoods\/2012\/03\/why-apples-new-campus-anti-urban\/1473\">Why Apple&#8217;s New Campus Is Bad for Urban America &#8211; Neighborhoods &#8211; The Atlantic Cities<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">I too have to admit that I don&#8217;t get the benefit allegedly bestowed by this donut (or &#8220;whitewall motorcycle tire&#8221;), either. In downtown Portland, Apple may tear down an existing retail building across from Pioneer Square and build in its place a one-story Apple Store. Downtown. Why, Apple, why?<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nWhile communities all up and down the Silicon Valley are trying to repair sprawl by replacing it with smart growth, Apple is actually taking a site that is now parking lots and low-rise boxes and making it worse for the community. Yes, it will be iconic, assuming you think a building shaped like a whitewall motorcycle tire is iconic, but it will reduce current street connectivity, seal off potential walking routes and, as I wrote some time back, essentially turn its back on its community. With a parking garage designed to hold over ten thousand cars, by the way.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/apple\">apple<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/architecture\">architecture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/atlantic_cities\">atlantic_cities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/kaid_benfield\">kaid_benfield<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/corporatism\">corporatism<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/arts-and-lifestyle\/2012\/03\/how-big-your-city-really\/1444\">How Big Is Your City, Really? &#8211; Arts &amp; Lifestyle &#8211; The Atlantic Cities<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Fascinating article about how we perceive scale, the scale of the cities we live in:<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nWe often have a certain sense of cities\u2019 importance and size, but this is too often founded on a fairly parochial context; our perceptions of cities are based on other cities we are familiar with or that are around it, and we neglect to recognize how big or small cities really are.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/cities\">cities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/atlantic_cities\">atlantic_cities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/scale\">scale<\/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>The City, Covered With Logos &#8211; Arts &amp; Lifestyle &#8211; The Atlantic Cities Corporate brand imagery as kudzu. Great points. QUOTE The logo-ing of our cities and neighborhoods is this process in reverse. 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