» Toronto Prairie: Our (almost) missing style • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape tags: architecture, frank_lloyd_wright, prairie_style, spacing.ca, textile_block_system, toronto Short post by Spacing Toronto’s Thomas Wicks on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie Style, specifically one lone example of same in Deer Park, a suburban T.O. neighbourhood. I added a comment, re. the house’s […]
A couple of days ago, I finished reading Walter Kirn‘s hilarious article, The Autumn of the Multitaskers, in the current issue of The Atlantic monthly. I suppose part of “successful” multitasking (if you grant that multitasking actually exists successfully in any way shape or form) is having a clear vision of what exactly it is […]
The Artful Manager: What’s ”authentic”? Annotated tags: authenticity, branding, culture, culture_industry, folklore, ideas, ideology, marketing Read the entry, “What’s ‘authentic’?,” by Andrew Taylor, but then read the first comment that follows, by Bill Ivey. Taylor, writing from an arts manager perspective, observes: “Since arts organizations are often perceived (or perceive themselves) as havens of authentic […]
…it’s a major theme at Brazilian carnival. Via PingMag – The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” comes this wonderful recap of Sao Paolo, Brazil’s just-ended carnival season. Season? According to Aroldo Cardoso Jr., who wrote the intro for PingMag‘s entry, planning and preparation for carnival starts in July. It’s more or less an […]
Just a pointer to an earlier entry of mine, Victoria Proxemics (April 8, 2007), where I discuss Edward T. Hall’s work a bit, and speculate on Calhoun’s 1960s-era rat experiments. I had to recall the latter because of my entry from Feb.4, 2008, Concrete Plans. So once again, from Victoria Proxemics, just to reiterate that […]
Affordable housing gap tops $1 billion (Toronto Star) Annotated tags: affordability, affordable_housing, funding, housing, municipal_funding, toronto “Canada is the only major country that doesn’t have a national housing strategy, the report notes.” The article deals specifically with Toronto and Ontario, but most of what it argues holds for every desirable (and expensive) city (including Victoria) […]
Spacing Toronto published an interesting entry back in November, which I just stumbled across when I read Shawn Micallef‘s entry today, Concrete Toronto: Looking at our city. Today’s entry announces a panel discussion about concrete and Brutalism, taking place tomorrow evening in Toronto. It’s organized around the book, Concrete Toronto, published last fall. I started […]
Victoria has a weekly tabloid newspaper called Monday Magazine, which, starting as an alternative publication ~35 years ago, has somehow managed to stay mired in the worst sort of “us and them” thinking that feeds into (and off) the roiling Schadenfreude of the perpetually resentful. Lately, one of their old writers from some many years […]
BLDGBLOG: Growing old in the age of lead tags: ageing, health, lead_poisoning, toxins Geoff Manaugh puts a whole new spin on “getting the lead out” to stay young at heart and young in body.
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