May 2009
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Pre-order my mom's book on Amazon! →
It’s mostly just for pregnant people, so if you know any of those (I don’t know about you but my friends are hella starting to breed), you should get it for them!
Lazy Friday Post Full of Links to Things I Like...
Janette Sadik-Khan is awesome: “One of the good legacies of Robert Moses is that, because he paved so much, we’re able to reclaim it and reuse it,” she says. “It’s sort of like Jane Jacobs’s revenge on Robert Moses.”
Planners say Detroit could one day resemble the English countryside. This is like, an idealistic logical continuation of Camilo Jose Vergara’s American Ruins.
My new...
Preservation can get ugly.
(Often and much,... →
Dispatch from Inside the Outside Lands, of the awesome Western Neighborhoods Project.
I’m sure any press coverage of this would be apt to blame the “crazy neighbor” for meddling in the permit process. Of course, the property owner/project sponsor is never the crazy one; oh no, it’s perfectly sane to spraypaint giant bible verse on wood planks obscuring a beautiful 1914...
Slacktivist is the new Neighborhoodizen. →
Dude, am I slacktivist? I think I kind of am. Maybe I should make myself some Moo cards to that effect, out of Flickr photos of historic buildings and transit lines.
“The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living...”
– ~James Marston Fitch, New York Times, 1 May 1960
Livable Streets movement, 49 years ago edition.
Ha, ha. Someone's offering a reward for spotting... →
It will not happen.
You Strange Atlantis.
This morning at about 7:30 I stood bleary-eyed and barely comprehending the world at the corner of Oak and Ashbury, preparing to cross into the Panhandle for my morning jog. As I waited for the rush of traffic to pass, a rail-thin, crazy-eyed, middle aged cyclist came mashing down Oak in the right hand lane, moving with the speed of traffic, singing the Beach Boys’ “Barbara Ann”...
WatchDay, brightened! I made you a sweet mixtape.
bstriddy:
Some people hate the bus Not me, I...
"cognitariat" →
teh articulate.
Watchbstriddy:
Lessons Learned
Matt and Kim get some naked time in Times Square.
Nerkked hipsterbop!
SFPD is Trashing City ID Cards? →
This is especially fucked up considering the next available appointment at the Clerk’s office (to file the application for a card) is SEPTEMBER 4, 2009.
Actually now it’s September 8, since I just took the last one on the 4th.
And I thought replacing a lost CADL was a pain in the ass, at about six weeks to replace. So many unsuspecting victims have seen my passport picture in the...
Last Boring Historic Preservation Bulletin For...
The opposition to the amendments to Articles 10 & 11 of the Planning Code is so, so badly misinformed.
The building trades council is apparently planning some kind of rally in the civic center tomorrow to protest the amendments, using the highly misleading “Save Our Jobs” as a rallying cry. It is a complete and utter falsehood that the amendments and the new commission have a...
“Article 10 deals with individual landmarks and historic districts throughout the...”
– What’s all the fuss about Articles 10 & 11? - SFBG Politics Blog
Also of note:
“preservation is way more labor intensive per construction dollar than new construction.”
Remembering Jane Jacobs - CBC Archives →
Swoon.
“To begin to get Jane Jacobs right, one must understand why she opposed urban...”
– Urban Iconoclast: Jane Jacobs Revisited by Howard Husock, City Journal Winter 1994
It’s been three years since Jacobs’ death, and Jane’s Walk seeks to honor that, and ensure the legacy doesn’t go ignored. If you’re doing some reading up on St. Jane, this linked...
