For anyone actually visiting / reading this blog, it must seem that my having gotten over a bout of December pneumonia, during the course of which I wrote much (laid up in bed with my laptop), also “cured” me of daily writing. Not quite, as I’m still writing (but not necessarily publishing it here). It […]
An Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories – New York Times tags: crops, energy, ethanol, food, fuel, geopolitics, oil, palm_oil NYT article on the problems around “the other oil crisis,” triggered not in small measure by our (West’s) desire to circumvent fossil fuel dependence by relying on biofuels.
Städtezerfall: München verschwindet tags: architecture, faz, georg_kronawitter, heritage, modernism, munich, urbanplanning – interesting article on Munich’s “caught in aspic/ amber” mentality of resisting modernism, as well as height, which relates to Social-Democrat long-time mayor Georg Kronawitter’s argument that Munich must be small and surveyable, which the author argues contributed to rent inflation and exacerbated problems […]
Seattle.gov – Seattle Right-of-Way Improvement Manual – Latest Online Manual tags: planning, reference, seattle, street_scape, urban_design Useful reference from City of Seattle re. street / urbanscape improvements, broken down in detailed format according to features (from “awnings” to “underground utilities”).
Green Revolutionary Annotated tags: africa, agriculture, food, mit_techreview, norman_borlaug, wheat, world_hunger “Four decades ago, Norman E. Borlaug developed a wheat variety that fed the world. Now he’s battling a pathogen whose spread could cause starvation.” – for doomsday-mongers, Borlaug was the party pooper who made sure that India would be able to feed itself. Today, […]
Why Foster’s Hearst Tower is no gherkin | Critique | Architectural Record tags: architecture, criticism, hearst_tower, norman_foster, nyc, robert_campbell Page 2 of article (see previous bookmark: “Via A Daily Dose of Architecture (http://archidose.blogspot.com/), a pointer to a great article by Robert Campbell on why Foster’s Hearst Tower is not a successful building.) Why Foster’s Hearst […]
In 2008, let us challenge the Politics of Apocalypse | spiked Annotated tags: apocalypse, criticalthinking, frank_furedi, opinion, political_correctness, public_opinion, spiked_online The issues that Furedi raise have been bugging me for a couple of years now — ever since running into James Kunstler and his ueber-successful economic project of making a living off scaring the pants off […]
seven for 2007 | varnelis.net tags: architecture, cities, cloud_computing, creatives, economics, ideas, predictions, privacy, reference, wow I’ve had this open in a browser tab for days, wanting to bookmark it, but hesitating because I found it impossible to describe, tag, or in any way categorize. So, let’s just say it’s “wow” and one of the […]
Of Hi5 and Orkut (MIT Technology Review) – interesting graphic. Arts study a culture shock (Toronto Star) Annotated I read something about this study last week, can’t recall where, and generally think it’s a bit silly anyway. But what catches my attention in this Toronto Star article by Peter Goddard is how it brings out […]
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