Archive for the ‘ Planning ’ Category
Over 2,000 historical photos of Shanghai, some from as early as 1860 (via Metafilter). Frank Fischer came to speak at LiPs today. I find his work really interesting, even though I had to go out during the critical moment of theory in his presentation. Horrible! for me, he is exciting because he is one of the [ READ MORE ]
A dialogue is slowly starting to brew on the ACSP student listserve Bowling League (now a Google group, which kind of sucks) on the future of the profession. My first contribution follows. Already here two vital issues have been indirectly raised. The first is the main issue here of ’separation’ vs. well, what? If we are [ READ MORE ]
autism (?) + urban planning = Urville [ READ MORE ]
Here’s the official preliminary announcement for the Just City conference: The Department of Urban Planning, the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and Columbia University invite you to join us for a one-day conference: Searching for the Just City Date: April 29th 2006, 10am – 6pm Location: Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University Admission is free [ READ MORE ]
An article in today’s NYTimes suggests that class-based gentrification in Atlanta is leading to a racial shift away from a black majority and toward political uncertainty. [ READ MORE ]
Though my worthy visitors probably have better things to do with their time, apparently I don’t. I found this article on Orange, New Jersey from 28 August 2005. It describes the two decades of work by HANDS to remove blight and to rehab ‘nightmare’ buildings ‘where vandals and drug dealers had become lords of the [ READ MORE ]
There has reasonably enough been some interest in recent developments that have raised the program security threat level to Orange. To my knowledge there have been no developments. Simply silence. I presume Floyd is taking some time to prepare a substantive response to the previous posting, which I eagerly await. As you may imagine, I [ READ MORE ]
Disclaimer (added March 7): Since everyone gets their information in the Information Age first from Google and since Floyd’s response resulted in this page getting so many hits that it is now on the first page when you Google search him, I feel at the moment that it is appropriate to add an additional disclaimer [ READ MORE ]
Belatedly, I bring you (most of) the shortlist for new faculty hires. Vieing for the senior position, we have four fine candidates: Ann Forsyth (theory and land use), Bob Beauregard (theory and economic development), Randall Crane (transportation), and Oren Yiftachel (theory and geography). For the junior position there are four more: Stacey Sutton (black [ READ MORE ]
For JW’s class, we recently read Krugman’s Geography and Trade. In it, he tried to do regional analysis on the basis of state-level employment by standard industrial classification (SIC) codes. There are two major issues with this. First (and actually rather minor), he bills his statistic as a sort of Gini coefficient using a ratio [ READ MORE ]
In another dramatic change of fortune that suggests major regime change in the urban planning program, Grace has officially announced that she’s leaving to work for CB1 at the end of March. I’m very excited for her, and I’m very glad that there will be time to break a new person in to the demands [ READ MORE ]
Today in Josh’s class we discussed Michael Piore’s “Review of The Handbook of Economic Sociology“, in which he called for economic sociologists to transcend their pluralist ways and develop a more or less ahistorical theory around which to orient their discipline. The basis for his call was that the theories of the great canon of [ READ MORE ]
Turns out that there was one more hurdle to leap before my exam sequence was over. Yesterday I spent nearly two hours going through my exam with Susan. She would flip through page by page, asking me questions about my answers based on her comments. In effect, I was expected to make the same corrections [ READ MORE ]
San Francisco is in the vanguard of new urban regulation (NYTimes) to designate landmark trees that would have protections similar to historic buildings. “The concerns are not just aesthetic: over the last decade, a host of studies have underscored the role of trees — especially mature ones — as “green infrastructure” that help reduce air-conditioning and [ READ MORE ]
So, it happened. My life will never again be the same…or perhaps it will simply be all the more the same. Yesterday I went to IKEA for the first time ever. For some misguided reason I was expecting an otherworldly consumer experience. Instead, it was just another big store with lots of poorly made crap [ READ MORE ]