In a wonderful article in today’s NYT, Kathryn Shattuck covers The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s 2008 Landslide series, “The Marvels of Modernism.” Check it out.
And for those of you in Seattle, note that the article gives special mention to the two area works that were documented by Christopher Raushenberg, the Pacific Science Center and Herbert Bayer’s [...]
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Landscape Literacy and TCLF
Posted in Uncategorized on November 22, 2008 | No Comments »
“You’re responsible.”
Posted in Uncategorized on November 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Seth Godin, marketing/ business consultant/author/etc, makes a great point today. Shocking in it’s simplicity, here’s what he says:“You’re responsible”. Some exerpts:
You take a job, you’ve bought into what the company does. You’re responsible.
If you work for a company headed off a cliff, hey, you’re going too. The fact that you’re just doing your job [...]
Green Roofs aren’t about energy…huh?
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Just a wee bit frustrated this evening…
We’re working on a project right now and we get to the part of the project where the wonderful euphemism “value engineering” comes into play. So the green roof is on the table and I ask how the extra insulation of the green roof affects the energy performance of [...]
Where were you when?
Posted in Uncategorized on November 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was here:
But I also wish I had been here, Seattle’s Pike and Broadway, dancing to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing”
Debating the Perks of Parks
Posted in Uncategorized on October 19, 2008 | No Comments »
In the last week, Eric de Place of the Sightline Institute did a great post about the Perks of Parks (later picked up on WorldChanging Seattle) and the Seattle Parks for All levy. Last Thursday, I was invited to participate in a debate on the Seattle Channel. Check it out here; http://www.seattlechannel.org/CityInsideOut/ (this link will [...]
Vote Bridgette!
Posted in Uncategorized on August 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you live within about a mile of our house in Washington’s 37th legislative district then you have a chance to vote for my lovely wife Bridgette.
For Democratic PCO, but still…pretty cool.
Green Giant: How Seattle’s Green Factor is Leading the Way
Posted in Uncategorized on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
cross posted at the Great City blog
When the Seattle Green Factor went into effect in January 2007 there was considerable skepticism from many quarters. Developers, used to setbacks and open space percentages, were concerned about the financial impacts of the new ordinance. Neighborhood and open space advocates worried that the ordinance might lead to more [...]
Crossposting
Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2008 | No Comments »
A few new posts up on the Great City blog…
http://www.greatcity.org/blog/ecodensity-passes-in-vancouver
http://www.greatcity.org/blog/adaptation-thru-innovation
http://www.greatcity.org/blog/where-have-all-the-green-gurus-gone
Just in time for my birthday…
Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Arrives July 11…
Does a Great Neighborhood Need Great Architecture?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged great city, seattle, slu on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »
cross posted from the Great City blog…
That seems to be the underlying question that Lawrence Cheek is asking in his article in today’s PI. In looking at South Lake Union, Cheek praises a few developments like the South Lake Union Discovery Center by Miller|Hull (and the epicenter of our Great City Block Party on July [...]
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Google Reader Shared Items- Pay As You Drive December 31, 2008Once again, Oregon leads the way: Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski plans to recommend his state transition away from the gas tax in 2009, eventually replacing it with a mileage tax.
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- Vi Hilbert, 1918-2008: Upper Skagit elder and Lushootseed language December 23, 2008Shared by bmaryman sad. Vi Hilbert, on the cover of Margaret Read MacDonald's Ten Traditional Tellers. Photo by Paul Eubanks. I was saddened, as both a Seattleite and a student of linguistics, to read on Language Log today of the death of Vi Hilbert. Her importance can nea...
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- Whose Streets? December 22, 2008I've been thinking the same thing as Dan's friend. Watching scenes like this over the weekend... ...and wandering on foot in the streets of the city—literally in the streets, because why not when most cars are stuck somewhere?—it's hard not to notice the attitudinal shift. The cars are humbled. The people are emboldened. The snow is deep […]
- The manga edition: "Das Kapital" December 22, 2008Shared by bmaryman just something poetic about this whole notion. Karl Marx is finding a new audience among Japanese comic book fans. The manga edition of his masterpiece, "Das Kapital," hit Japanese bookstores this month and sold about 6,000 copies in its first few days. ap
- Action Alert: Help Rep. Oberstar Support Mass Transit December 22, 2008Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn.A lot of Streetsblog Network members are already starting to wind down for the holidays, and we're all for that. But in Washington, where lawmakers are working on an economic stimulus bill, things are happening that could have major ramifications for many years to come. The Wall Street Journal is reporting to […]
- How astronauts went to the Moon and ended up discovering planet Earth December 20, 2008Forty years ago this Christmas the first human beings reached the moon. But their historic feat is better remembered for an image of what they left behind - planet Earth.Looking back from more than 200,000 miles away, the crew of Apollo 8 saw Earth floating "like a Christmas tree ornament lit up in space, fragile-looking". They pointed their camera […]
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