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Architecture & Design: Fabulous Pre-Fabrication
A friend sent a link that might be interesting to anyone that lives in a small apartment or enjoys sleek modern architecture - Fabprefab - The Home of Modernist Prefab Dwellings
Prefabricated buildings are structures, or parts of structures, that are manufactured "off-site" rather than on the construction site.
For instance, imagine […]
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Funny enough,I was sitting at home trying to craft some sort of "letter to the editor" Saturday afternoon on the same topic as this APA story, "Multiculturalism as a Tool for Economic and Community Revitalization".
I was having quite a bit of trouble putting it into the right words… but what I hoping to get across […]
Piecing Together a Vibrant City
A friend forwarded this article to me last week from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, "Piecing Together a Vibrant City". The story is about Milwaukee's (well, former, now he's Denver's) Planning Director, Peter Park.
In someways, this article is interesting because it exhibits some of the changes Milwaukee has gone through over the last several years (e.g. […]
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Friendster
What can be said about friendster that hasn't been said already?
Half my friends are too cool to do friendster, the other half are way too cool on friendster. Somewhere in the middle are the rest of us regular people, it's sort of interesting and a fair way to waste some time every once in […]
Alistair Bland - An Urban Hunter / Gatherer
Saturday's Morning Edition had a fun story about Alistair Bland, a UC-Santa Barbara student that went 10 weeks as an "urban hunter-gatherer". For these 10 weeks, Mr. Bland ate only foods that he picked or captured himself in the Santa Barbara area.He explained that his typical day would often involve getting up early in morning […]
Those Crazy Crazy Cars
Those Crazy Cars
How can you not click a link that's titled "Woman Causes Parking Garage Chaos"
"Police said the woman reversed sharply out of her spot on the upper level of a multi-story parking in the southwestern town of Kirchen, writing off a parked Nissan and damaging a Mitsubishi next to it, police said.
She then […]
Inside New York's Quiet Success Story
Michael Gecan, and organizer with the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation, provides an interesting look at the evolution of New York in the Village Voice, "Inside New York's Quiet Success Story".
Mr. Gecan cites 3 areas that have most influenced the improvements in NYC.
1) Public safety: Increased police hiring under David Dinkins (who bravely pushed forth […]
Terramuseum and Garfield Conservatory in Chicago
I went on a little excursion to Chicago this past weekend and had a wonderful time. Sure, Chicago is now the murder capital of the United States, but still felt pretty ok going.
One of the highlights were visiting the Garfield Conservatory on Chicago's westside. I have since learned that the conservatory is one of […]
Movies Featuring Cities
Yesterday I received my very own copy of the movie Manhattan in the mail.
Besides simply being a Woody Allen movie in black and white, I hold a very special place for Manhattan in my heart. I think that this movie has, quite simply, the best opening scene out of any movie I have ever […]