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‘Good cities consist of good people.’
Share Cities do not consist of freeways, buildings, transit systems, houses, malls, sidewalks, hydro wires, sewers, water mains, snowplows, corporations or government. Good cities consist of good people. Like a vibrant company, they tap their best people — those with intelligence, energy, integrity, goodwill and a large well of experience — to do the best [...]
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Share Where have I been? Well, I’ve been the same place you have been: Looking at this blog, wondering where the next post will come from. I’ve spent most of the past week thinking about the focus of this blog, and I’ve decided to follow what readers have been most interested in — local commentary [...]
Interview with the new DID president
Share Be sure to read the column Kevin Leininger wrote after his interview with the new president of the Downtown Improvement District. Lots of good sense coming from Richard Davis: “I’m alert to the ‘Big Project’ syndrome, where the ‘titans’ decide what should be the thing to change the face of downtown. But success never [...]
Eight reasons to rejoice over $8-a-gallon gasoline
Share Chris Pummer on MarketWatch gives us a contrarian notion — more expensive gasoline might be just what we need. And no, not because we’re an evil American people, but simply because we have suffered an economic drag because of our dependency on oil: Americans should be celebrating rather than shuddering over the arrival of [...]
Left turn to nowhere
Share This is the repaved block of Calhoun Street between Jefferson and Washington boulevards. Instead of a turn lane that directs you into the breakfast buffet at the Hilton, perhaps the city could consider a center-of-the-road refuge island for hotel-goers crossing the street? Such an island would typically be used on wider streets, but visitors [...]
Lewis Mumford told it like it is
Share Quotes from Lewis Mumford (1895-1990), American historian of technology and science: Architecture, like government, is about as good as a community deserves. – Sticks and Stones, 1924 Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind. – The Culture of Cities, 1938 Forget the damned motor car and build the [...]
This world is my home
Share Sometime in the early 20th century, American Christians forgot the importance of the earth. The reasons are complex, but they boil down to a pessimistic view of the future and a vaguely Gnostic distrust of the physical. This view led not only to prohibitions on good things like alcohol, but also to an overemphasis [...]
Philip Bess: Cities shaped by love
Share In an essay with the provocative title, “Bring me my arrows of desire: cities shaped by love,” Gayle Doornbos writes a review of Philip Bess’s book, “Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred.” For those who are unaware, Bess is a Notre Dame architecture professor who spoke to a Fort Wayne [...]
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