2008

Jun

Gentrification is fun again!

“For my money, the “we were lied to” chorus only represents...”
— We lied to ourselves. We...

May

The New York Times has a number of interesting pieces on the...

"High gas prices are making more people...

has been a common headline these past few weeks and months, although it isn’t really true....

This reminds me of Robin Rhode’s work as well, although he tends to incorporate people...

Well here’s a ridiculously bad idea. Chrysler is...

Boston’s Old City Hall. I pass this everyday. I love...

I’ve been thinking my tumblr has been a bit too text...

“The irony is with the gas prices what they are, we should be...”
— Barack Obama During an...

“Companies are big on breaking the car addiction because...”
— Suddenly it’s cool to...

“those who put speed above all other values are often cheated...”
— Lewis Mumford, bemoaning...

"Score one for the cyclist"

I’ve got 10 Beta invitations to give out for this...

“It is great to see that we finally have some national unity...”
— Thomas Friedman talking about...

Gas to hit $7/gallon by 2012 . . .

This is a great political ad. It is succinct, and it cuts at the other two contenders without...

Apr

“The end product [of Suburbia] is an encapsulated life, spent...”
— Lewis Mumford, The City in...

New music experiment

marco: My music collection is in desperate need of an update, having stagnated since about 2002...

For those in the Boston Metropolitan Area, May 12th - 18th...

High gas prices prompt call for 4-day work...

“Suburb: a place that isn’t city, isn’t country, and isn’t...”
— Mignon McLaughlin (via...

“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities...”
— Christopher Morley (via...

headspace: via I bloody love you. You’re my best mate. ...

Are biofuels bad?

squashed: I wouldn’t suggest that we keep our biofuel policy the way it is by using subsidized...

I’ve been keeping my eye on this discussion thread as...

Private citizen issues parking tickets to...

dealbreaker rules: do they exist? And if...

I would say the one dealbreaker that has stuck with me is: I will not date anyone who likes Ayn...

“You might say… that the city is a place for...”
— Lewis Mumford

Again with the price of gas! Why do people expect the...

“A tax on gasoline is more like a tax on a sacrament than a...”
— Former Massachusetts Senate...

I don’t think the original engraver intended any...

The Quakers and their bikes

“Vivendo discimus”
— “through living we...

Truly, this is the Invisible Hand of the Market making society better! Ayn Rand would be so proud to...

Vivendo discimus

“through living we learn.” add that to your list of bon mots.

Life itself will always be more absurd...

alexbalk: WASHINGTON — He shot his hunting partner, but Vice President Dick Cheney apparently...

TONIGHT! For those of you in the Boston/Cambridge Area,...

Bear with me...

For the few of you that read this blog, I’m looking to tweak this design a bit while...

How prescient is this? Everything comes back around.

You know who doesn’t use HOV lanes? The Nazis,...

Mar

Deval’s office

Singer is awesome. via: streetsblog

“Arrogance is, after all, one of the coefficients of money.”
— Robert Caro in his epic...

jakoblodwick: If NYC did not regulate taxis, this half hour...

It’s amazing to think that anyone, including the...

Fuck you and your H2 Ok, so this is old news and maybe a...

Feb

Since 1998 the proportion of 16 year olds...

Jan

Grad School

I haven’t been posting lately because my macbook pro was stolen from my apartment, but...

A Critical Mass of One.

Bikes outsell cars in Australia!

Thinking about housing...

My s.o. and I have been talking about where we’ll live next and the possibility of buying a...

The high cost of free parking

I just got the High Cost of Free Parking out of the library and I think the premise is pretty...

Thinking about Government (II)

On the off chance Jakob Lodwick checks who reblogs his posts, I would just like to respond to his...

Bicyclist deaths by gender, 1975-2006 When I took the...

Campaign Spending

“…every new shopping centre built in America next year...”
— The Economist has a...

Best bike ad ever… “Stop Making Sense Talking...

2007

Dec

We are the traffic… via: lab111.tumblr.com

“Contrary to the convictions of census statisticians, it is...”
— Lewis Mumford, The City in...

I feel like I remember watching this when I was a child, and being fascinated by the possibility....

How do you change the American Dream?

In the opening chapters of James Kunstler’s foundational book, The Geography of Nowhere he...

George Bailey is the quintessential American. He is the...

“Individualism, at first, only saps the virtues of public...”
— de Tocqueville James Howard...

This is off the topic of ubanism, but arts and culture tend to be produced and appreciated in urban...

TODD SUMLIN / Charlotte Observer Staff

“I feel like I’m living in an old ghetto,” says...”
— Roscoe is talking about new...

It’s your patriotic duty to drink Miller High Life and bike to the store to get it....

“…but no matter how much money someone gives you...”
— Thom Yorke via...

“The American commute by the numbers: $78 billion: Cost, per...”
— For more statistics…...

Does a city need an industry to...

Does a city need an industry or service to survive? Why can’t a city exist to serve its own...

The Beginning

I hereby christen this blog The Urbanist. This blog is here for the sake of its creator as a way to...

Can Buffalo ever come back?