Cities as contested space(s) of theory

August 3, 2010

Continuing from yesterday’s post about Urban agriculture readings, here’s another interesting FastCompany article about cities: David Harvey’s Urban Manifesto: Down With Suburbia; Down With Bloomberg’s New York. This one deals with what could perhaps be called a kind of reverse urbanization – turning the city into a glossier, less heterogeneous place – one that, shorn […]

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Urban agriculture readings

August 2, 2010

Not sure what to make of this: New Urbanism for the Apocalypse (in FastCompany, a mag perhaps better known for technology and bright & shiny things, not for in-depth urbanism or for agriculture…). Not a new article (published May 2010), but focused on Andrés Duany, a founder of New Urbanism, who is fed up by […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

August 1, 2010

Kickstartup — Successful fundraising with Kickstarter & the (re)making of Art Space Tokyo — Craig Mod Fascinating proposal: QUOTE Where is publishing heading? We have Kindles and iPads, iPhones and Androids. Print on demand is cheap — and good. Everyone shops at Amazon.com. Most books are a click away. Contemporary publishing is engulfed by a […]

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August real – it’s really going to be August

July 31, 2010

August might be the month I scale back my daily blog posts… …to focus on other tasks. I probably won’t need that hard hat I’m holding – a simple pitch fork should do it. No two ways about it, it’s time to clean out the stables.

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Not so novel thought

July 30, 2010

Page 316, “Alexandra” (Tatiana) tells Smiley: She [Tatiana’s mother] was not obedient to history. That is to say, she believed that history had taken a wrong course. She was mistaken. The people should not attempt to change history. It is the task of history to change the people. And that, in a nutshell, is a […]

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Behind the scenes at the RBCM

July 29, 2010

Yesterday I went on a “back of the house” tour of the Royal BC Museum: wow. British Columbia residents, take note – this is your museum, and you can organize small groups and ask to go on one of these tours. It’s staggering to learn just how much is tucked away in storage, including significant […]

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Civics assignment, part 2

July 28, 2010

Very important for City of Victoria British Columbia residents/ taxpayers: Click through to FOCUS Magazine‘s poll, How should Victoria City Council solve the Johnson Street Bridge problem? As FOCUS notes, this is for “City of Victoria residents only, please” – so if you live in Saanich or Oak Bay or Esquimalt (or beyond), skip this […]

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Civics assignment

July 27, 2010

Ok, if you live in Victoria BC, or if you live in any city anywhere and have chafed at scandals related to your political leaders and how your bureaucratic staffers are handling civic and fiscal issues, here’s your assignment: hie yourself over to FOCUS Magazine and read Sam Williams’s latest article, Victoria City Hall: well […]

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The Book of Firsts: A great “firsts” book for history buffs

July 26, 2010

The next time someone says to you, “I’d like to study history, but I don’t know where to start,” tell them to pick up a copy of The Book of Firsts: 150 World-Changing People and Events from Caesar Augustus to the Internet. Written mostly by Peter D’Epiro, with numerous contributions by eight other scholars, The […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

July 25, 2010

Blame Yourself For The Recession – Forbes.com Belt-tightening 101 includes public policy (like cracking down on super-frigid air-conditioning and free toss-away plastic bags at will)… QUOTE Our consumption is out of control. Did you know there is a mass of bottles, plastic bags and other garbage the size of Texas–almost as large as LeBron James’ […]

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