{"id":679,"date":"2006-07-19T14:12:33","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T18:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2006\/07\/19\/updates-galorific\/"},"modified":"2007-02-14T16:19:28","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T20:19:28","slug":"updates-galorific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2006\/07\/19\/updates-galorific\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates galorific"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a number of updates on my wiki<\/a> to report.<\/p>\n

I sent two additional emails to the consultant at Stantec<\/a>, and posted them under the Greens promote<\/a> link as subpages here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In each case, I’m happy to report, I received a friendly email confirming my input, which did put a human face (or name) on the interaction.<\/p>\n

I added a subpage in the same “Greens…” category, called Majora Carter – “Green is the new black”<\/a>. This page points to TedBlog<\/a>, which in its right-hand sidebar includes links to a number of TED Conference<\/a> presenters. Majora Carter is a house on fire, and what an example!<\/p>\n

From the same TedBlog<\/a>, I made a page on the wiki called Visionaries<\/a>, which points to the TedBlog page featuring the architect Joshua Prince-Ramus. I need to re-watch this presentation a couple of times: it’s quite amazing.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, there are other videotaped presentations on TedBlog that are “must-sees,” including Ken Robinson<\/a> (on creativity & education: watch this and think of John Taylor Gatto); and Al Gore<\/a> (I had no idea he had such comedic skills!).<\/p>\n

In addition, I created a Linkiography\/ Bibliography: resources<\/a> page. It’s incredibly higgledy-piggledy and reminds me of Donald Norman’s story in (I believe) Things That Make Us Smart<\/a>, wherein he describes filing systems, including his and a colleague’s version of what he calls “piling cabinets.” That is, the venerable “pile of papers on the floor,” simply stacked, …er, piled, into an open frame bookcase…<\/p>\n

Yes, my “resources” page<\/a> is more like a pile right now, and may well stay that way. But even so, the items do include annotations, and the annotations made me think, when I watched Prince-Ramus, about: evolutionary psychology and the problem of attention<\/strong> (i.e., what do we give attention to, in our built environment, and why, and how does Prince-Ramus’s “hyper-rational” architectural strategy support or interfere with that? — see R. DeYoung’s article); and “irrational” aesthetic preferences (say, for refuge you don’t actually need, or peril or enticement, or prospect, or complexity — see William Saunders’s article): how do you deal with or account for them?<\/p>\n

Also useful, at least for me, was the process of reading Elizabeth MacDonald’s paper, “Street-facing dwelling units and liveability,” very thoroughly and annotating it with an eye toward the implications of its Vancouver-based analyses with regard to Victoria. I have to conclude that for the most part, people in Victoria don’t know what they’re talking about when they worry and fret about supposedly accelerating development here.<\/p>\n

I’m planning a “close reading” (sort of) of a particular building here in Victoria called The Corazon, which is probably my favourite new construction in town. I have an email from last weekend lying around in some …(virtual) pile wherein I started to lay out my reading of the building. Will expand later, but it was great to see “KidB” on SkyscraperPage Forum<\/a> enthusiastically agree that it’s a gorgeous building, and he cites most of the same reasons, too. (No, I’m not a forum member, just a regular reader….)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a number of updates on my wiki to report. I sent two additional emails to the consultant at Stantec, and posted them under the Greens promote link as subpages here and here. In each case, I’m happy to report, I received a friendly email confirming my input, which did put a human face […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[786],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki_victoria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}