Archive for the 'street_life' Category
Friday, December 10th, 2010
While I promised myself, for sanity’s sake, to forgo paying attention to city politics, the City of Victoria‘s endorsement last night of a transportation proposal has me back at square one. Meaning what? Meaning I’m scratching my head, wondering what’s in the water around here. The endorsed plan – proposed by BC Transit – would […]
Filed under: johnson street bridge, land_use, street_life, transportation, urbanism, victoria. |
Tags: buses, johnson_street_bridge, rapid_transit, trams
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Friday, September 24th, 2010
I saw an amazing photograph in the temporary gallery Ryan Kane of the Dirty Wall Project has set up on Fort Street. The photo is one of many that Kane is selling to raise funds for his venture: it’s a flat, saturated, picture-edge-to-picture-edge frontal view of one small piece of a slum in Saki Naka […]
Filed under: cities, guerilla_politics, housing, ideas, innovation, land_use, local_not_global, philanthropy, street_life, urbanism, victoria. |
Tags: dirty_wall_project, ryan_kane
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
Last day in Boston, spent most around Harvard Square in Cambridge. Came across some interesting street buskers – varied, different, fresh. (For each group, click on the image to go to Youtube clip I shot.) First up, two young guys (age 17), the drummer (unfortunately obscured in my little film clip) banging rather well on […]
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Tags: buskers, harvard_square, street_musicians
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Streetfilms has produced a great ~4minute video, “Fixing the Great Mistake: Autocentric Development,” that makes the case for taking city streets back from the automobile. As it happens, I had the same idea in the early 1970s. It’s finally getting mainstream traction!
Filed under: cities, guerilla_politics, jane_jacobs, land_use, real_estate, social_critique, street_life, urbanism. |
Tags: cars, new_york_city, paris, park_avenue, traffic
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
The tremendous natural beauty that surrounds us bestows a false sense of entitlement, although we’ve done nothing to earn natural beauty. Stewardship lets us earn it, but now Victoria must at last wake up to earning built beauty.
Filed under: architecture, cities, green, homelessness, ideas, land_use, local_not_global, NIMBYism, politics, real_estate, social_critique, street_life, urbanism, victoria. |
Tags: beauty, built_form, entitlement, environmentalism, stewardship
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
We’re experiencing an exceptional cold weather spell in southwestern British Columbia, and last night a 47-year old homeless woman died in Vancouver. She burned to death, trying to keep warm with a live fire; the police think her blankets must have caught fire. The story is all over the news of course, including here: Woman’s […]
Filed under: affordable_housing, canada, cities, housing, justice, social_critique, street_life, vancouver. |
Tags: downloading, homelessness, offloading
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
(Note: might add some links/ photos later, but no time now — written on the fly…) Dan Bertolet of Hugeasscity hits all the right points in his discussion of what makes a good urban plaza. He includes a “wow!” photo of Seattle’s Garden of Remembrance, which, with its relatively steep grade, allows for steps oriented […]
Filed under: heritage, land_use, street_life, victoria. |
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
The Vancouver Sun published two articles, nearly back-to-back, which make a lot of sense when read in conjunction: on March 22, we read Bob Ransford’s As cities become more complex, our taxes keep rising and on March 24 we read Milo Cernetig’s Approach to social woes a moral failure by all three main B.C. parties. […]
Filed under: addiction, affordable_housing, canada, cities, crime, homelessness, housing, justice, leadership, local_not_global, social_critique, street_life, taxes, urbanism, vancouver, victoria. |
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Boogie: Bleak Street Lifes (PingMag – The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things”) Annotated tags: boogie, brooklyn, drug_addiction, gangs, interview, nyc, photography, ping_mag, street_life Interview with “Serbian photographer Boogie [who] grew up in the war-torn region of former Yugoslavia, documenting protests and the disturbing portraits of skinheads. After moving from Belgrade to Brooklyn in […]
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