Short Form Content- Important Program Note
- We will not solve our climate problem by adjusting the width of streets
- ‘Buycott’ app aimed at companies like Koch Industries - Wichita Business Journal
- > So, is the structure of language a blueprint for the structure of the universe? | Stephen C. Rose
- Thinking in a binary either-or manner hobbles progress.
- Charles Sanders Peirce on the Sanctity of Guesses
- Cigarettes are the paradigm for global nonviolent change
- Six-word Memoirs about Boston Marathon Bombings | Stephen C. Rose
- Jesus favors proactive help, justice, fairness and tolerance.
- Ego is a nominalist misnomer
- The mystical experience to which all have access is a profound awareness of universality and connection to it. | Stephen C. Rose
- The mystical experience to which all have access is a profound awareness of universality and connection to it. | Stephen C. Rose
- Finality is unattainable. Seek rather a way.
- We limit morning after pills and OK dangerous testosterone gels. Who's minding the store?
- Capri exemplifies the virtues of car free living.
Tag Archives: houses
Why Single Family Homes Are Obsolete
Not in the sense that they are presently the standard — the home that stands alone, that may be big enough for more than a nuclear family or small enough for two only. The standard, sprawled, often ugly, car-dependent, beloved … Continue reading
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Tagged automobiles, car free, cars, change, communities, economy, exurbia, homes, houses, human settlements, metrosprawl, pattern language, politics, president obama, single family home, suburbia, urban sprawl
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President’s Talking Points for Now or Later
NOTE: This post — HERE — has been entirely submerged by the Huffington post. You will not find it on its main page under new posts. The only way it could remain there is if they chose to feature it. … Continue reading
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Tagged cars, economy, homes, houses, human settlements, integral, pattern language, politics, president obama
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Further Thoughts on “Our Crisis Is Not Economic”
OUR CRISIS NOT ECONOMIC The original is in blockquotes. The best way to understand the current economic crisis is to see that it is not economic. It is political, but even that designation is inadequate. It is a seismic evolutionary … Continue reading
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Tagged cars, crisis, economy, evolutionary, finance, green, houses, pattern language, paul krugman, politics, rachel maddow, sustainable
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Obama Pattern Language Primer — 8
Welcome to this series of posts seeking to popularize Christopher Alexander’s epochal book A Pattern Language and to apply its premises to the current effort to move beyond the morass of a 20th century economy into something more appropriate to … Continue reading
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Tagged cars, christopher alexander, community, design, household, houses, housing clusters, human settlements, industrial, marketplace, obama, pattern language, planning, politics, president obama, privacy, public, sustainability, towns, work
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Obama Pattern Language Primer — 7
These notes on Christopher Alexander’s Pattern Language are like coming home to concepts we should have honored all along, but which have become buried in the sort of building and design that put people second and utility or profit or … Continue reading
