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Space & Place
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Link, Space & Place
We can use the hands, but not the spirit?
“Developers in Tijuana would build entire neighborhoods of generic 400-square-foot houses — miniature versions of suburban America,” Mr. Cruz said in an interview. “What I noticed is how quickly these developments were retrofitted by the tenants.” Informal businesses like mechanics’ shops and taco stands would quickly sprout up on the front lawns and between the [...]
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News, Scribbles, Space & Place
A little bit of Milk
Castro Street, nexus of San Francisco’s greatest neighborhoods and a cultural and historical home for the gay right’s movement, is turning back the clock to the mid 1970s for Hollywood. Store fronts all along the neighborhood’s main strip are being redone in period style, most notably - and nosalgically - Milk’s Castro Camera is back, [...]
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Link, Meta, Space & Place
Literature Review resources online
Tufts is often put to shame when it comes to making these sorts of resources easily available: How am I supposed to write this Literature Review for my Thesis? What is a Lit Review? I’m sure there’s some sheet on the topic that was typed on an old IBM and has been photocopied every couple [...]
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Link, Space & Place
Integral communities, outside
Max Lerner, former editor of The Nation and a New York Post columnist (the old Post), writing in 1957 on the quiet and unfulfilled nature of Americans without a place:
A number of recent American writings indicate that the nostalgia for the small town need not be constructed as directed toward the town itself: it is [...] -
Commentary, Space & Place
Schooled
Great Uncle Bill & Aunt Kay invited my Dad and I to sit down for a chat when we stopped by their house on some post-Thanksgiving errands. They asked about my thesis, and at their 87 years, I thought the most succinct explanation would be, “I’m looking at economically developing communities.”
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Design, Link, Space & Place
“Top 100″ Architecture Blogs
Watch yourself - my feed reader just got a lot noisier from this. Link
