The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

December 11, 2011

Are Complete Streets Incomplete? « Project for Public Spaces – Placemaking for Communities So true. QUOTE Streets and parking can take up as much as a third of a community’s land, and designing them solely for the comfort of people in cars, and then only for the most congested hour of the day, has significant […]

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What’s up with Vancouver real estate prices?

December 9, 2011

In a kind of  yang-ish counterpoint to my last post about yin-ish Portland (and Victoria), here’s a pointer to a BC Business article, Housing has become Vancouver’s toxic asset, by Tony Wanless, that makes me think Vancouver’s yang is just a tad out of control. Wanless points to a blog post by Vancouver independent city […]

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Satire speaks the truth

December 8, 2011

So now I’ve been in Portland for about one-and-a-half weeks, and it’s time to ask myself whether I’d want to stay. Is it pleasant? Yes. Funky? Ditto. Something I want to embrace? …Not so sure yet. (Not to mention vice versa: would Portland want me? Where do I fit in??) Portland reminds me of Victoria […]

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A temporary settle

December 6, 2011

My updates have lately dwindled to practically zero. I’m in limbo of sorts, arguably a continuation of life-as-usual, but now in a different place. For the time being, I’m in Portland Oregon. Interesting city. Been here for about a week, busy settling in and heading out when possible. My little furry friend, Jigger the Dog, […]

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The (very late) Sunday (Tuesday!) Diigo Links Post (weekly)

November 29, 2011

Are Americans Afraid of Innovative Urban Design? – Design – The Atlantic Cities Thinking about this article in relation to what Virginia Postrel wrote about design panels (as stifling)… QUOTE “The U.S is the most conservative country that there is in terms of supporting design,” said Schwartz, who now practices in London and primarily works […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

November 20, 2011

Transforming Blight Into a Destination – Design – The Atlantic Cities Fantastic. Putting imagination back into infrastructure. (How much we could have needed that in Victoria BC, both with regard to the Johnson Street Bridge and with the View + Vancouver streets intersection… QUOTE “The strategy is how to integrate the entire community so that […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

November 13, 2011

The meaning of 9/11’s most controversial photo | Jonathan Jones | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk What a huge load of baloney. Iconology at its WORST. QUOTE The critic and columnist Frank Rich wrote about [THIS PHOTO] in the New York Times. He saw in this undeniably troubling picture an allegory of America’s failure to […]

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Why seasonal mash-ups are a rip-off

November 9, 2011

Yesterday, Sara White tweeted seeing her first Christmas tree in a shop window. She wrote that, coming on so early in the season, it felt like an assault on the eyeballs. I responded that I too intensely dislike marketing’s jump-the-gun approach to flogging “seasonal” wares. In fact, I really dislike it. (Curmudgeon alert!) Once upon […]

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Sunday bonus links: all about Occupy Wall Street

November 6, 2011

Two Rolling Stone articles by Matt Taibbi; one Seeking Alpha article about Simon Johnson’s EU talk; one EarthFuture article by Guy Dauncey.

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

November 6, 2011

What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really? | NeuroTribes Intriguing: QUOTE One of the most memorable lines in Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind is Suzuki-roshi’s statement, “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” Suzuki didn’t want his senior students to take a seat on the cushion each […]

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