Health Advocates Take on Sprawl; Metro Area Weighs Beneifits of Highway 212 Expansion
An oddly interconnected, slightly sarcastic, but rather brief post:
This story / report "Sprawl: Is it hurting health?" got quite a bit of press last week. It was a front page article in the Star Tribune (Minneapolis / St. Paul - A place with its fair share of suburbs)…
Which makes a good contrast to today's front […]
Taxpayer Advocates Identify Minnesota Taj Mahals
The MN Taxpayer League's website has a new feature - the Taj Mahal of the Week
So, what's the Taj Mahal of the week? And why is Minnesota building so many of them?
"Millions of taxpayer dollars being committed in an ever-escalating competition to erect extravagant and overbuilt city halls and community centers."
Eggregious waste and misuse, that's […]
Bicycles: Tires, the Tour De Sprawl, Federal Funding, and Critical Mass websites
For the last several months I've wanted to purchase some new tires for my bicycle. I pretty much wanted new tires because I like to go fast on my bicycle, and I especially like going fast in heavy traffic. In fact, I used to deliberately bike through Midtown Manhattan during rush-hour traffic for the thrill […]
Riding on the Metro (subway system resources / websites)
This is a fun subway website
… some more views on subway systems worldwide
… the subway systems with the most riders
… and the Travel Channel's ranking of the world's best subway systems
And of course, some appropriate listening material
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All in the Family
I'm not sure where I got this idea. I probably saw it on another website…
… but for some reason I did an altavista image search on my last name, collected all the photos, and did a photo collage of my world-wide family.
My votes are in:
Most famous Korb: Has to be […]
Resource: Seminar on Using Photographing in Site Analysis and Project Documentation
This looks interesting (from the U. of MN. College of Architecture and Landscape Archtecture):
Photographing the Designed Landscape: Using Photography in Landscape Site Analysis and Project Documentation
Oct 10, 4-5pm (reception follows)
$25
Location: CALA, Auditorium, Rm 100
Join colleagues and professionals at this landscape architecture reunion kick-off seminar geared to cover the various topics important to photography as it […]
Chicago Sun Times Building to Become Trump Building
Via Matt is an interesting news story from the Chicago Tribune,"Trump unwraps building plan"
The new Trump building would stand on the current site of the Chicago Sun Times, at a height of 90 stories. This would make it the 4th tallest building in Chicago, which means, well, it will be pretty damn tall.
Much of the […]
Space Age Automated Parking Garages
This is so cool - Space-Age Garages That Save Space - a new fully-automated parking garage in Hoboken that use 1/2 the space of a normal garage.
I checked out the robotic parking website and they currently have 4 garage designs ready to go and a cool sim-like animation that shows the auto-garage in action.
I'd certainly […]
Increase Da Peace!
I'm starting to think there's a tad too much violence going around these days. Today two people were shot (one was killed) in the Hennepin County Government Center. Egads! This is totally not Minnesota-nice!
So what can we do about this tide of gun violence that is sweeping the nation? Why, of course, we should really […]