April 2011
2 posts
Explaining my thoughts from North Ave for @toea...
Planning, as a discipline, is famously amorphous, right? It all began with the world of physical planning, which emerged from architecture. It uses design and zoning as its tools. But you cannot design in a vacuum. There are values that come along with planning decisions - and these values manifest themselves not only in design form and zoning codes, but also in decisions about transportation...
Apr 25th
Why this undecided voter decided to vote for...
Got this message from a friend recently: Who is your pick? Here’s where I am: Strategic vote: Mara (mostly to stop Orange, and to a lesser extent, Biddle - a good guy with the wrong friends). Non-strategic vote: Weaver.   And I replied: You almost perfectly describe where I’m at. However, I don’t think Biddle needs to be stopped. What he’s done is make some Gray-style...
Apr 22nd