The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

March 7, 2010

Julia Vitullo-Martin: Don’t Wreck the Authentic New Harlem Renaissance – WSJ.com Sharon Zukin takes on gentrification (in Harlem especially), while Harlem-ites dismiss her critique. “Gentrification” v. “authenticity”? Between black and white there might actually be plenty of shades of gray (no pun intended)… QUOTE It should also be said that these talented, innovative African-Americans are […]

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Guess what? Park Avenue used to be …a park

March 6, 2010

Streetfilms has produced a great ~4minute video, “Fixing the Great Mistake: Autocentric Development,” that makes the case for taking city streets back from the automobile. As it happens, I had the same idea in the early 1970s. It’s finally getting mainstream traction!

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Millennials and public engagement

March 5, 2010

Low voter turnout, boredom around local government: officials are scratching their heads, trying to design public engagement strategies that reach the disaffected, including the Millennial generation. My take? “Go where they are, don’t expect to build a site or a ‘strategy’ that makes them come to you”

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Curating stripes

March 4, 2010

An upcoming Seattle Art Museum exhibition has me thinking about the difference between good curation or editing and a quick Google search.

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Follow up on entitlement

March 3, 2010

A follow up on Entitlement post with 2 examples of (1) earned reputation and (2) spoiled brat behavior (aka entitlement attitudes). The latter earns nothing and should stay unrewarded.

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Entitlement

March 2, 2010

The tremendous natural beauty that surrounds us bestows a false sense of entitlement, although we’ve done nothing to earn natural beauty. Stewardship lets us earn it, but now Victoria must at last wake up to earning built beauty.

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Thinking out loud on social media platforms

March 1, 2010

A month ago I posted an atypically personal story to a discussion group on LinkedIn, a social media platform focused on business and professional connections. If nothing else, it proves how impossible it is to sever the personal and professional.

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

February 28, 2010

Smart Centers Planned to Recycle Mountains of Toxic E-Waste THIS is scary: QUOTE (caption for photo accompanying article): “In a Chinese village, this man burns plastic circuit boards to recover the precious metals, releasing toxic smoke. (Photo courtesy StEP-EMPA)” UNQUOTE tags: e_waste, waste_management, developing_countries, environment Austria Passive House Takes a Star Turn | GreenBuildingAdvisor.com Austria’s […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

February 21, 2010

Artists offer billboard alternatives | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times Interesting strategy: artists using billboards to counteract billboards and direct attention in other ways… tags: art, public_art, billboards, los_angeles Vancouver, the pros and cons of our splendid isolation – Techvibes Blog This is part two of what will be a three part series, by […]

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Bamberton, Public Participation, Design Thinking

February 20, 2010

“Competing Values: Land Use and Public Consultation” (2/20 forum in conjunction with “Bamberton: Contested Landscape,” an exhibition at Open Space in Victoria BC) illustrates the need for design thinking to help bridge gaps between validity (outcomes favored by the community) and reliability (assurances required by developers and quantitatively-oriented planners and engineers).

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