petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - 5 hours ago | people, cities, books, ideas, development, design, architecture
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 01 2009 | history, ideas, politics, developmentQuoted: In such ideas, one finds a bridge between his inescapable moral imperative to break with a destructive fantasy-world through a decisive Act, and his recognition that the conditions for action, for the shaping of the site événementiel must be created through a long history of much less dramatic but no less decisive Acts. In a sense, this is a shift from revolutionary gesture to revolutionary gestation.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 28 2009 | research, development, commons
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 28 2009 | libraries, research, developmentQuoted: The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature on the commons. The DLC provides free and open access to full-text articles, papers, and dissertations. This site contains an author-submission portal; an Image Database; the Comprehensive Bibliography of the Commons; a Keyword Thesaurus, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 16 2009 | planning, architecture, cities, Fernando de Mello Franco, development
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 14 2009 | blogs, cities, art, adaptive reuse, urban, development
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 03 2009 | planning, design, development, people
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 03 2009 | people, urban, conservation, development, planning
Quoted: William H. (Holly) Whyte (1917-1999) is considered the mentor for Project for Public Spaces, because of his seminal work in the study of human behavior in urban settings. While working with the New York City Planning Commission in 1969, Whyte began to wonder how newly planned city spaces were actually working out – something that no one had previously researched. This curiosity led to the Street Life Project, a pioneering study of pedestrian behavior and city dynamics.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 01 2009 | csa, agriculture, cities, development, planning, farming, co-op
Quoted: In the Fall of 1972, she says, “Jules toured the neighborhood selling apples from the back of his station wagon and talking co-op to anyone who would listen. He also distributed flyers door-to-door. Finally, when enough people had chipped in a few dollars apiece, Jules was ready to make his dream a reality. He rented the store front at 555 Carpenter Lane, which had been Sid’s Delicatessen.”
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - May 13 2009 | video, architecture, music, informal settlements, development, Brazil
click to playQuoted: This movie shows the construction process of a school in Rocinha, the largest favela of Latin America, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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