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Bridge School Benefit

sfurbanist wrote 8 months ago: I ventured outside the city last weekend for the Bridge School Benefit at Shoreline Amphitheater.  I … more →

Tags: Entertainment

The Wall Street Journal Is Troublesome

Brandli wrote 8 months ago: Daniel Henninger’s op-ed in The Wall Street Journal today is a lot to digest before noon.  Hen … more →

Tags: News, america, gawker, Sarah Palin, Slate, Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger, Paul Abrams, urbanism

What happens when a bubble bursts? Behold the urban prairie

culturalcapitol wrote 9 months ago: No, the picture above isn’t the Old West, or Kansas in the 1930s, or a movie set. This ruined … more →

Tags: Borough Culture, Politics, Urban Planning, Economics, urban density, Urban Development, urban prairie, bubbles, bubble burst

City People vs. "Real Americans"

sfurbanist wrote 9 months ago: Crime has been on my mind a lot lately.  When Dan moved to a sketchy part of the Mission, I didn … more →

WOW ideology

culturalcapitol wrote 10 months ago: WOW is short for Wide Open West. WOW ideology is the belief that the world is an ever-receding hori … more →

Tags: Daily Poop, urbanism, Urban, Environment, Environmentalism, Wide Open West, Rural, Land Use

It's Good to be Dense

Miss M wrote 11 months ago: “‘We could build another Phoenix inside the one we already have, double the population … more →

Tags: Green, sustainability, urbanism

Over the hill1 comment

sfurbanist wrote 1 year ago: I unfortunately have to commute by car to work, so I recently purchased a new MINI Cooper. I’ … more →

Tags: sustainability

Murder your lawn1 comment

sfurbanist wrote 1 year ago: An abridged version of an interesting post from the Garden Wise Guy blog on greenoptions.com: … more →

Tags: Urban Design

On roundabouts1 comment

sfurbanist wrote 1 year ago: From greenoptions.com: “Because the traffic only needs to slow down rather than stopping, all … more →

Tags: Urban Design

Go forth and gentrify?1 comment

sfurbanist wrote 1 year ago: In a Mother Jones article, Dashka Slater examines a question that has been on my mind for some time: … more →

Tags: Reflections, Social Movements, gentrification

Puccini for Beginners

sfurbanist wrote 1 year ago: “Love is a smokescreen to keep us from facing the real issues of the world — global warm … more →

Tags: Quotable, Entertainment

Yet Another Reason Why Vegetable Oil Should Only Be Used For Frying

Miss M wrote 2 years ago: A 79 year old retiree and his wife conspired to cheat the Illinois government out of its gasoline ta … more →

Tags: Green, Springfield, Illinois, sustainability

All Aboard for Nari-dah3 comments

Miss M wrote 2 years ago: The St. Louis airport by Minoru Yamasaki echoes Saarinen’s soaring TWA terminal in New York Ci … more →

Tags: Architecture, Springfield, Illinois

The Mother Road1 comment

Miss M wrote 2 years ago: It was serendipity that I landed in Springfield during the famed Route 66 festival. Classic cars (e … more →

Tags: Design, Springfield, Illinois

Salamon at Super Wal-Mart

Miss M wrote 2 years ago: Wild salamon[sic] is $6.86/lb at the Super Wal-Mart in Springfield Illinois. I am consistently fasc … more →

Tags: New York City, Springfield, Illinois

Great Plains

Miss M wrote 2 years ago: The terrain of the midwest is decidedly flat, crushed by a a glacial moraine some 100,000 years prio … more →

Tags: Springfield, Illinois


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