The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

February 1, 2009

Can Toronto learn to love winter?, by Christopher Hume (Toronto Star) Christopher Hume asks if Torontonians (living along the largest river in Egypt?) can learn to love it – winter, that is. What I find particularly useful are the suggestions for …urban winter stations (for want of a better name). See highlighted bits. tags: thestar, […]

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January 2009 article up

January 25, 2009

It’s almost the end of the month – my March article is due in a few days and I realized I hadn’t yet posted my (published) January 2009 Focus Magazine article. So, here it is: Building bridges and start-up muscle in Victoria (PDF on Scribd.com). I heart this one – it’s about design (constraints and […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

January 25, 2009

“Where Do Cities Come From?” (Richard Florida – Creative Class) Florida points to an article that smacks down cities (it claims that historically they’ve been “death traps”) and asks for reader feedback. I left a long comment. (PS: this one is going to generate its own blog post on my blog, in response to rebuttals […]

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Closed routine or open innovation?

January 22, 2009

While there’s much to be said for routine and regular habits, there are other times that require smashing the status quo. I went to City Hall this morning, expecting to participate in a workshop/ presentation by city staff on the implications of BC’s Bill 27 on revenue earned by the city through DCCs (Development Cost […]

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“Timber!” or “Timber?”

January 21, 2009

After attending today’s Urban Development Institute Luncheon on “The Story Behind the Six Storey Mid-rise Initiative” (with speaker Trudy Rotgans, Manager, Building and Safety Policy Branch in the BC Government), I have some additional thoughts on the topic (first broached from another angle here). As billed, the presentation’s topic was this: You heard about it […]

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Notes: Grist-ly.

January 19, 2009

I checked into my blog’s admin pages last night to post my Sunday Diigo links. I’m aware that I last blogged – about “mystery” of all things – on January 12, which happened to be my mother’s birthday. I don’t especially like thinking about my deceased parents. They were bonkers, frankly. January 12 would have […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

January 18, 2009

The Long Emergency: An Interview with James Howard Kunstler – O’Reilly Broadcast I despise the way JH Kunstler has managed to make what should be well-placed criticism of the system into an ideological cult that’s infused with hocus-pocus and now – egad! – “neo-medievalism” and celebrating the failure of “the Enlightenment mental model.” There’s so […]

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Notes: Mystery

January 12, 2009

As I was on a sort of nostalgia rag (see my comments to the Freshness post, for example), I was reminded of a book by Louise Huebner (go ahead, google her), which I read when I was 14. Her book, while having an eccentric title, was about power and control, a topic of keen interest […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

January 11, 2009

Asian Designers Are Schooling American Architects–Here’s How A bit of a fluff piece (this is the “printable” page – FastCompany has so much annoying flash & crud on its front pages), but there’s an interesting thought about *im*permanent architecture here. QUOTE One of Ma’s core ideas — the impermanence of architecture — has particular appeal […]

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Notes: Gaia

January 7, 2009

Musing this morning on the article I found through one of John Geraci‘s tweets, Green Algae Bloom Process Could Stop Global Warming by Andrew Williams in Clean Technica, I wondered whether the earth is growing us up. You know, like parents grow up kids? It seems our projects and responsibilities get bigger, same as when […]

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