The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

April 30, 2012

Urban Heat Island Effect Upside: It Can Be Good for Trees – Neighborhoods – The Atlantic Cities +1 on more urban trees. Few things improve a streetscape more. It seems that higher urban temperatures help trees grow, and then of course more trees also mitigate the urban heat island effect. QUOTE Despite other conditions that […]

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Unfinished business on North Williams

April 24, 2012

Why Portland’s North Williams Avenue reminds me of Edouard Manet and his paintings of the unfinished suburbs.

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It’s official: I hate Portland Oregon

April 23, 2012

A brief explanation why I think Portland sucks: its dog owners don’t know shit. And that’s a fact.

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

April 22, 2012

A ‘Photographic Census’ Captures New York’s Characters – Arts & Lifestyle – The Atlantic Cities Some amazing captures by Brandon Stanton (see the video). So much diversity, yet the people seem somehow rooted in and belonging to NYC: they’re unified as New Yorkers, even though they’re often so different. It struck me how often the […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

April 15, 2012

Six Rules for Dining Out – Magazine – The Atlantic Great article about restaurants/ dining out in the US. The point about food trucks, so apposite to the question of costs of leasing a “real” restaurant, is thought-provoking. QUOTE Corollary: The food truck is your friend. The ultimate low-rent venue is the food truck. The […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

April 8, 2012

Toward an Architecture of Place: Moving Beyond Iconic to Extraordinary | Sustainable Cities Collective Sure, ok, there’s starchitecture that *is* obnoxious. But you know what’s wrong with entirely “community-driven” design? It can suffer from Tall Poppy Syndrome (TPS) and end up celebrating the merely subpar. TPS is when you cut everything down to the same […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

April 1, 2012

Bike Lanes: The New Job Creators? « Project for Public Spaces – Placemaking for Communities Can bike lanes create new jobs? QUOTE The answer seems to be yes — at least in the case of Long Beach, California. More than 20 new bicycle-related or bicycle-inspired businesses have opened at last count. I toured some of […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

March 25, 2012

Flavorwire » What Comes After the Hipster? We Ask the Experts I agree with Bruce Michael Conforth here: QUOTE The sociologist Robert Jay Lifton has written about the “Protean Man” who is more comfortable with images than with words and with fragmentation than with wholes. This, of course, is nothing more than the fruition of […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

March 18, 2012

The City, Covered With Logos – Arts & Lifestyle – The Atlantic Cities Corporate brand imagery as kudzu. Great points. QUOTE The logo-ing of our cities and neighborhoods is this process in reverse. Instead of borrowing the ambiance and associations of a place, the product infests it with its own characterless generica, diminishing and voiding […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

March 11, 2012

Can Urban Highways Be Fixed? – Commute – The Atlantic Cities Dwight D Eisenhower’s interstate freeway plan did not intend for freeways to run through cities. Too bad that memo was ignored… QUOTE But Eisenhower never intended that the Interstates be built through densely populated cities. A memorandum of a 1960 meeting in the Oval […]

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