Top 100 Architecture Blogs

October 22, 2007

Fantastic reference / resource for all urbanistas & architecture/built environment fans. From the Intro (article link repeats at bottom of entry): If Modernism was the twentieth-century architectural trend that developed a new way of thinking, then Urbanism appears to be the twenty-first century architectural mindset. This trend is breeding urban explorers (urbex), the greening of […]

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Fairtilizer

October 22, 2007

Very fun site — tons to explore, much to hear. I have one invite left… Fairtilizer – Track 3898 – Chungking – Love Is Here To Stay (Kissy Sell Out’s Own Private Idaho)

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Tom Friedman gets it

October 22, 2007

Scale is neither flat nor in silos. Scale just is. And leaders have more power to scale good and bad effects, which makes a compelling argument for good leadership in sustainability. See Tom Friedman’s op-ed piece in the New York Times: Save the Planet: Vote Smart – New York Times Excerpt: …the greenest thing you […]

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…arguably the largest public greenspace in New York City in 100 years

October 22, 2007

Don’t be scared by the German title in the link — it’s a video narrated in English, about an elevated train trestle in NYC… A five minute video report (in English) about Edward Norton and the group “Friends of the High Line,” a 2-kilometre long elevated train trestle, abandoned for decades, which the “Friends,” via […]

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Must read for urbanists

October 22, 2007

Via CEOs for Cities blog: Originally published in the book “Block by Block: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York,” coinciding with the exhibition “Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York,” at the Municipal Art Society, September 25th 2007 – January 5th 2008.: AndrewBlum.net: Local Cities, Global Problems: Jane Jacobs in an Age […]

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On the trail of Richard Florida, who said…

October 22, 2007

…that creativity is revolutionizing the global economy. What Canadian cities have trouble with, however, is their tutelage to senior levels of government. Canadian cities are wholly the creatures of the Provinces and aside from property taxes can’t raise their own capital. Read the following article by Lance Carlson, who proposes overcoming that hurdle through enlightened […]

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Updates

October 22, 2007

I spend too much time on a local forum, where I post many items, and I spend quite a bit of time on Facebook, to which I also post interesting items I come across. Between those two opportunities, plus the minimally paid work (writing) I do, I find that my poor blog is being neglected. […]

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More updates soon…

October 4, 2007

Too many things on the agenda, and a looming computer-allergy as a result: the combined effect is that I’m once again behind on my “hope to do/ blue sky” list. One of those to-do items includes posting more of my FOCUS Magazine articles (in PDF) to the link here, just above my about page (see […]

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Disney comment on Victoria: “you would swear you were in England”

October 3, 2007

It seems the Canadian Pavilion at the Epcot Center (in Orlando, Fla.’s Disney World) has a new version of “O Canada,” the promotional film for this country. According to an article in today’s paper (Ottawa feeling underexposed in Disney’s new Epcot film), Ottawa is ticked off that it rates barely a mention. But how would […]

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Keep flying…

September 22, 2007

It’s busy around here, which is why posting to the blog is sparse (to put it kindly). But the other day — really in passing, the way a bird might fly past the window, and the window is your life as you’re standing there and living it, except I was moving and the window was […]

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