Daily Diigo Public Link 01/20/2008

January 19, 2008

An Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories – New York Times tags: crops, energy, ethanol, food, fuel, geopolitics, oil, palm_oil NYT article on the problems around “the other oil crisis,” triggered not in small measure by our (West’s) desire to circumvent fossil fuel dependence by relying on biofuels.

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Daily Diigo Public Link 01/19/2008

January 18, 2008

Städtezerfall: München verschwindet tags: architecture, faz, georg_kronawitter, heritage, modernism, munich, urbanplanning – interesting article on Munich’s “caught in aspic/ amber” mentality of resisting modernism, as well as height, which relates to Social-Democrat long-time mayor Georg Kronawitter’s argument that Munich must be small and surveyable, which the author argues contributed to rent inflation and exacerbated problems […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 01/18/2008

January 17, 2008

Seattle.gov – Seattle Right-of-Way Improvement Manual – Latest Online Manual tags: planning, reference, seattle, street_scape, urban_design Useful reference from City of Seattle re. street / urbanscape improvements, broken down in detailed format according to features (from “awnings” to “underground utilities”).

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Daily Diigo Public Link 01/16/2008

January 15, 2008

Green Revolutionary Annotated tags: africa, agriculture, food, mit_techreview, norman_borlaug, wheat, world_hunger “Four decades ago, Norman E. Borlaug developed a wheat variety that fed the world. Now he’s battling a pathogen whose spread could cause starvation.” – for doomsday-mongers, Borlaug was the party pooper who made sure that India would be able to feed itself. Today, […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 01/13/2008

January 12, 2008

Why Foster’s Hearst Tower is no gherkin | Critique | Architectural Record tags: architecture, criticism, hearst_tower, norman_foster, nyc, robert_campbell Page 2 of article (see previous bookmark: “Via A Daily Dose of Architecture (http://archidose.blogspot.com/), a pointer to a great article by Robert Campbell on why Foster’s Hearst Tower is not a successful building.) Why Foster’s Hearst […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 01/11/2008

January 10, 2008

In 2008, let us challenge the Politics of Apocalypse | spiked  Annotated tags: apocalypse, criticalthinking, frank_furedi, opinion, political_correctness, public_opinion, spiked_online The issues that Furedi raise have been bugging me for a couple of years now — ever since running into James Kunstler and his ueber-successful economic project of making a living off scaring the pants off […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 01/10/2008

January 9, 2008

seven for 2007 | varnelis.net tags: architecture, cities, cloud_computing, creatives, economics, ideas, predictions, privacy, reference, wow I’ve had this open in a browser tab for days, wanting to bookmark it, but hesitating because I found it impossible to describe, tag, or in any way categorize. So, let’s just say it’s “wow” and one of the […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 01/09/2008

January 8, 2008

Of Hi5 and Orkut (MIT Technology Review) – interesting graphic. Arts study a culture shock (Toronto Star) Annotated I read something about this study last week, can’t recall where, and generally think it’s a bit silly anyway. But what catches my attention in this Toronto Star article by Peter Goddard is how it brings out […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 01/08/2008

January 7, 2008

Jane Jacobs, bloggy neighbourhoods and cell phone sidewalks (The Mobile City » Blog Archive » ) – sounds similar to what I’ve said in a few articles (see the FOCUS Magazine article on Centennial Square, published March 2007 (“Private affairs in public spaces”), and on my wiki, too (re. importance of anonymity). I’m intrigued by […]

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My FOCUS articles online (updated)

January 6, 2008

Slowly but surely, I’m getting there: scanning my FOCUS Magazine articles and converting them into PDFs, which I’m posting to my Articles published in FOCUS Magazine page, link visible at the top of this blog’s header. So far, I have posted November 2006, December 2006, February 2007 through June 2007 (I didn’t have an article […]

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