Preserve a pedestrian mall? 58 days ago Original link
I am generally cool to pedestrian malls because so few of them seem to work. So I was a bit surprised by the call to save the Charlottesville Downtown Mall I just found in the newsletter of the The...
Why use such retrograde imagery? 81 days ago Original link
WorldChanging says that Cities Are Tools for Living Bright Green Lives. We live on an urban planet. For the first time in history, a majority of us live in cities. How we grow those cities, how we ...
Not even Howard Schultz's wildest dream 81 days ago Original link
Starbucks Everywhere . Hello, my name is Winter, and I have never been a member of the Wu-Tang Clan. Nevertheless, since 1997 (the same year Wu-Tang Forever was released) I have been on a personal ...
Jane Jacobs Speaks 82 days ago Original link
From the CBC Archives (video) of 1969Remembering Jane Jacobs. Interesting clip which reminds us that Jane Jacobs was as much or more about economics as about urban design.