petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 14 2009 | blogs, cities, art, adaptive reuse, urban, development
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 02 2009 | farming, agriculture, urban
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 29 2009 | education, agriculture, urban
This looks like an amazing city school!
Quoted: W. B. Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences is located in the upper Roxborough section of Philadelphia on the rolling hills of the Wissahickon Valley bordering Fairmount Park. The multi-building complex is located on a 130-acre campus. On one side of Henry Avenue are Academic, Agricultural, Greenhouses, Physical Education/ Health, and Small Animal Laboratory buildings bordered by an arboretum and athletic fields. On the opposite side of Henry Avenue is the working farm ...
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - May 21 2009 | urban, houses, architecture
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 12 2009 | slums, urban, development, architecture, politics, blogs, infrastructure
Great article by Katia Savchuk on slum redevelopment in Mumbai.
Quoted: most resettlement sites are peripheral and threaten to become "vertical slums." In the end, this is still a way of clearing populations who are "in the way" out of central urban space in order to reshape the city for its high-end users.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 11 2009 | urban, cities, farming, news, livestock, planning, development, sustainability
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petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 20 2008 | environment, development, revitalization, urban, brownfields
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