(Untitled)- April 19, 2005 The Stranger's Opinion Hanging out in the park yesterday with my friend, we were talking about the value of raising children in the city as opposed to pitching tent in the 'burbs. Planner types like myself get all up in arms about the evils of the suburbs: the cars, the lack of community, the lack of diversity, and so on and so forth. But I do notice that the planners that rail against thehttp://skunklove.blogspot.com/2005/04/strangers-opinion-hanging-out-in-park.html (Untitled)- April 19, 2005 And Now for Something Completely Different Well, it doesn't have much to do with urban culture, but I wrote it and I'm proud of it so I'm posting the link to it. What is it It's an essay explaining Jewish Weddings that my brother asked me to write for his upcoming wedding.http://skunklove.blogspot.com/2005/04/and-now-for-something-completely.html (Untitled)- April 11, 2005 The Second Alternative The second installment of the "Alternate Side of the Street" column for The New York Spirit is up online. It's already been posted on this blog, but now you know I wasn't lying - the magazine really exists.http://skunklove.blogspot.com/2005/04/second-alternative-second-installment.html (Untitled)- April 8, 2005 The Threshold For a long time, I have maintained that the threshold of good design is that it makes people ask questions. Pretty, not pretty - it's too subjective. Best not to wade into that minefield. Better yet to start somewhere else with my own criteria. And so I did. I said to hell with whether you think it's pretty or not - does it make you look at the world in a new way Does it make youhttp://skunklove.blogspot.com/2005/04/threshold-for-long-time-i-_111292671590113214.html |