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Title:What a discordant illustration
Summary:to use in a blog post (at Space & Culture) on detached McMansions:... (7/25/2008 9:02:13 AM)
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What a discordant illustration 37 days ago Original link http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/2008/07/what-an-odd-ill.html
to use in a blog post (at Space & Culture) on detached McMansions:
I'm surprised the author doesn't mention 'peak oil' 47 days ago Original link http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/2008/07/im-surprised-th.html
From the New Middle Ages to a New Dark Age: The Decline of the State and U.S. Strategy. Free PDF. From what might, but shouldn't, be a surprising source. From the PDF: "The argument here is that we...
Non-toxic paint? or recycled paint? Which one? 55 days ago Original link http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/2008/07/non-toxic-paint.html
Suppose you are working on a project which the owner hopes will qualify for some sort of LEED rating. Or maybe the owner just wants as green a project as is reasonable. Which is higher priority? no...
Preserve a pedestrian mall? 58 days ago Original link http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/2008/07/preserve-a-pede.html
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 http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/2008/06/why-does-world.html
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 http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/2008/06/not-even-howard.html
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 ...
We can pay for health care in Dubai but not in the USA 81 days ago Original link http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/2008/06/we-can-pay-for.html
Everyone in Dubai to have health care. Every worker in Dubai, from chief executives to labourers, will have access to the same health care under a radical and unexpected overhaul of the system anno...
Jane Jacobs Speaks 82 days ago Original link http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/2008/06/jane-jacobs-spe.html
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.
Should anyone doubt the power of civil servants buried deep in the bureaucracy: 83 days ago Original link http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/2008/06/should-anyone-d.html
Neighbors mourn mural creatures' extinction and also City paints over cherished Phinney mural Before: After: Real reporting would involve interviewing not only City PR home-office types but also th...
Terrifically-interesting post on Hyperlocalizing Hydrology in the Post-Industrial Urban Landscape 85 days ago Original link http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/2008/06/terrifically-in.html
Here at Pruned One of the things which excites me about the issue of storm-water runoff is that it looks to me like a problem which actually capable of resolution i.e. there are low-tech and cost-e...