This just in from Rick Cole, the City Manager of Ventura, California - and one of the most articulate voices for Smart Growth in America. (He was also a councillor in Pasadena. A great speaker, too)
Take a read of this interview in which he discusses “the triple-witching hour - heating up the planet, running up [...]
Apropos to 1960s planning (below) and the talk tonight by Toronto urban critic Christopher Hume at SFU Harbour Centre, here’s an intriguing project underway in TO, sent in by Matt Blackett from Spacing:
I was recently hired by ERA Architects here in Toronto to help them develop a blog for one of their projects. It’s called the [...]
Paul Krugman, in his New York Times column, comes to the conclusion that …
… if we’re heading for a prolonged era of scarce, expensive oil, Americans will face increasingly strong incentives to start living like Europeans, maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of our lives.
Gasp, you mean like [...]
It’s the best-looking building on the Sea-to-Sky Highway:
Mind you, there’s not a lot of competition.
This is the Squamish Adventure Centre - essentially a tourist information booth scaled to its setting and appropriate for, truly, the world-class outdoor-recreation opportunities in this region.
The architect was Richard Iredale, and he combined his design vocabulary with the metaphor of [...]
Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, wrote the best seven words to open an article on nutrition that I have ever read. Here.
Now he has written the best two words to open an article for Earth Day. Here.
This bit of pavement doesn’t rank as “New Stuff” quite yet: it’s the southern end of the Carrall Street Greenway (design here) - a critical link between the False Creek seawall and, eventually, Burrard Inlet and Coal Harbour, completing the loop around the Downtown Peninsula. Eventually, thousands will be biking, blading and walking on this [...]
The best analysis I’ve seen of the looming disaster - personal, urban, environmental - that is the Tata Nana.
Occasionally I come across a piece of writing that’s really memorable. (At least it sticks in my mind until the next day.) Perhaps because of all the news about avalanches in our surrounding mountains, this essay - The Failure of Networked Systems - really resonates.
There is a critical angle for piles of sand - a level [...]
Once again, Chicago leads the way:
Chicago has decided to retrofit its alleys with environmentally sustainable road-building materials under its Green Alley initiative… In a green alley, water is allowed to penetrate the soil through the pavement itself, which consists of the relatively new but little-used technology of permeable concrete or porous asphalt. Then the water, [...]
Or rather, “What are they thinking!?”
Cars and more cars: In China, car ownership at present is about 20 million, but is projected to be 250 million in 2020 (an 820% increase in a decade!), subject to the availability of a fuel.
‘Bigger is better:’ An overwhelming sense of the development projects is that the bigger they [...]
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