Yule Heibel Writes — by Yule Heibel

All in my head?

December 7, 2009

I’ve written quite a few blog posts in the last months. Unfortunately, the ones destined for this blog all stayed in my head. How local politics has chipped away at my confidence in assessing any kind of global perspective (including my own “place”) could itself be the topic of a blog post, however.

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

November 22, 2009

Project on Regional and Industrial Economics – U of MN Humphrey Institute A listing of recently published and working papers by Ann Markusen, director of the Institute’s Project on Regional and Industrial Economics at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs (U of Minnesota). Her Areas of Expertise are: Arts, culture and economic development; regional economics […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

November 1, 2009

His brave new world – The Globe and Mail Who knew that Bob Rennie (Vancouver’s “Condo King”) was amassing a huge art collection with a focus on “marginalization, oppression and resistance”? Very interesting article about a very interesting collector indeed. I would certainly love to visit his new museum. QUOTE “The Downtown Eastside is marginalized, […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

October 25, 2009

Carbon Neutral Now Nice article about Yale’s Kroon Hall and Victoria BC’s Dockside Green as true carbon-neutral projects (with Dockside Green a model for building entire neighborhoods as green/ carbon neutral). “Across the continent, at the southern tip of the mountainous and densely forested Vancouver Island, Dockside Green will soon become carbon neutral. A mix […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

October 18, 2009

What should be the Sunday Diigo Links Post just turned into a Monday Links Post. It appears I’m still shaking a case of drift, unable to anchor myself even once a week to this place (my blog). At least I still read some things on the web, as the links (whether Sunday or Monday) indicate. […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

October 11, 2009

The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving The Future – Future metro – io9 QUOTE Adam Greenfield, a design director at Nokia, wrote one of the defining texts on the design and use of ubiquitous computing or ‘ubicomp’ called “Everyware” and is about to release a follow-up on urban environments and technology called “The city […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

October 4, 2009

Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset | Video on TED.com An amazing presentation by Hans Rosling about world health & economic data, his site (gapminder.org), the “bottom billion,” and …well, blowing cliches about health and wealth out of the water. Also see Rosling’s 10 answers to 10 questions video: http://www.gapminder.org/videos/ted-and-reddits-10-questions-to-hans-rosling/ tags: ted_conference, data, […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

September 20, 2009

David Byrne’s Perfect City – WSJ.com I love David Byrne’s music, but in this essay for the Wall Street Journal I think he somewhat over-reaches himself. Why? The essay is muddled. He includes too many contradictory pronouncements. For example, that big and dense is good, but that you need the “village” thing for safety & […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

September 13, 2009

Forget Curbing Suburban Sprawl (MIT Technology Review) I have some questions about the source of this report/ research, which claims that density (including examples such as Vancouver’s eco-density) “would yield insignificant CO2 reductions.” QUOTE Even if 75 percent of all new and replacement housing in America were built at twice the density of current new […]

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