February 2012
Penn Station could be a "Gateway to Dignity" →
We have become a city too cynical about big change, resigned to the impossibility of unraveling bureaucratic entanglements, beholden to private interests, inured to commercialism and compromise.
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Underground Berlin →
January 2012
Analog or Digital by Wildlife Control shared from...
Ohai (Do I Know You?) by Wildlife Control shared...
Spaceman (Original Mix) by Hardwell shared from...
Razzberry Mockery by Keith Caputo shared from exfm
Let there be rock by Tocotronic shared from exfm
“The phrase ‘military-industrial complex’ had been coined not by a...”
– (Thelin 2004, p. 309)
“Old fashioned harmony? It’s mostly gone. A more fitting metaphor is the...”
– (Kamin 2010, p. 170) on american college and university campus architecture
“It’s interesting, then, that, in both instances—in both Iraq and in...”
– Photographer Richard Mosse via BLDGBLOG interview
“it doesn’t make for an easy photograph. It’s all a bit like the...”
– Richard Mosse, photographer via BLDGBLOG
“In my experience, the most successful entrepreneurs have been those with a...”
– Vivek Wadhwa
“we are also remarkably adaptable and tend to be quite complacent about our...”
– 1958 report by Cornell University Center for Housing and Environmental Studies, “Bathroom: criteria for design”
“Planners could develop more sophisticated zoning tools to foment commercial...”
– Justin Davidson
“Money is like gasoline during a road trip,” he says. “You...”
– Tim O’Reilly
“The challenge for artists is just as it is for everyone,” Robert Adams once said...”
– On marrying a photographer « LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG (via alexjdsmith)
“The soundtrack of the city has always been made up of scorching insults and loud...”
– Justin Davidson
December 2011
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Chinese Cities To Build Subways
“The total number of those in China living in cities is nearly double that of the total US population, and a quarter more than that of the European Union. The annual net growth of Chinese urban population ranks first in the world, as does the scale of urbanization.
Among the 655 cities in China, 23 have population exceeding 2 million, and 35 have population of between 1 million and 2...
Top 10 Commercial Real Estate Trends for 2012 →
2012 Prediction
“Rents will rise – which is a bad thing. With fewer people buying homes and more people losing their homes to foreclosures, the rental market is only going to get tighter especially in older, dense cities like New York, Washington DC and San Francisco. High rents will hold back economic growth if businesses can’t pay workers enough to have a roof over their heads. Squeezed city-dwellers...
Black Day (Radio Mix) by Northern Lite shared from...
No Ordinary Love by Deftones shared from exfm
US Dept of the Treasury Defines "Abode"
“Abode” has been variously defined as one’s home, habitation, residence, domicile, or place of dwelling. It does not mean your principal place of business. “Abode” has a domestic rather than a vocational meaning and does not mean the same as “tax home.” The location of your abode often will depend on where you maintain your economic, family, and personal ties.
- Department of the Treasury,...
Stanford yanks tech-campus bid
After months of pressing its case to open a tech campus in the city, Stanford University abruptly pulled out of the competition Friday.
In a statement, Stanford President John Hennessy said, “after several weeks of negotiations with New York City, university leaders and the Stanford Board of Trustees have determined that it would not be in the best interests of the university to continue to...
“The hand of the diligent maketh rich.”
– -Peter Cooper
He ascribed “the possession of the wealth he owned primarily to the habits of patient industry which he had formed at the outset of his career. From his early youth he had avoided, he affirmed, alcoholic liquors and the incurring a debt, and he always made it a rule to endeavor...
“The property held by the Cooper Union for the advancement of science and art at...”
– Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC) Saturday, June 05, 1869; Issue 17,712; col C.
That’s some serious increase in value for just a decade.
“Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter …...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” (1837), in The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (New York: Modern Library), 44.
Sweet Child o’ Mine (Guns n’ Roses cover) by Scott...
You Showed Me by The Watson Twins shared from exfm
So much for that.... ;-)
“Accommodations will be afforded in the day-time for the instruction and training of a thousand girls and at night-time for the instruction of a thousand boys, with every facility and free of cost forever.”
- ”The Drexel Institute,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, (New York, NY) Saturday, September 07, 1889; pg. 71; Issue 1773; col B.
(1891) "New Temple of Learning, The Drexel...
“New Temple of Learning, The Drexel Institute: Chauncey M. Depew to Make the Dedicatory Address on December,” Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, (Bangor, ME) Saturday, December 05, 1891; Issue 280; col C.
“The building is in the style of the classic renaissance. It is constructed of light buff brick with terra-cotta ornamentation of a darker color, the base is of rock-faced...
“The most vexing thing in the life of a man who wishes to change is the...”
– Jim Harrison, The Man Who Gave Up His Name (via ariverisariver)
Richard Vedder (2010) wondering "Why Did 17...
Selected from: Vedder, R. (2010). “Why Did 17 Million Students Go to College?” The Chronicle of Higher Education.
“Over 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees (over 8,000 of them have doctoral or professional degrees), along with over 80,000 bartenders, and over 18,000parking lot attendants. All told, some 17,000,000 Americans with college degrees are doing jobs...
“Harvard is a bit like the rich man who wears scuffed shoes and a frayed collar...”
– (Thelin 2004, p. 359)