Posts Tagged ‘san francisco’
more thesis prep
pavement to parks
Last Friday was all abuzz with Park(ing) Day, a ‘holiday’ created to celebrate public space. (Sad that it lasts only one day a year!)
In the spirit of reclaiming the streets, Allison Arieff discusses an offshoot of this — land banking. The strategic acquisition of land in advance of expanding urban development, land-banking in [...]
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Tags: green, san francisco, thesis, urbanism
new city, new city
i left copenhagen about a month ago. in the interim, ive spent some time with the home clan in new jersey, with the school clan at MIT, weekending at dartmouth, a little bit in new york city, and now i am settled in the bay area for the summer.
like i wrote in my Dear [...]
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Tags: copenhagen, dwell, new york, san francisco, travel, urbanism
over winter break, i’ve been burying my bookwormy-aspiring nose into elizabeth gilbert’s eat pray love, which is turning into a delightful appetizer to my impending study abroad semester in denmark.
although i have neither a lucrative book advance, nor a messy personal divorce from which to cleanse myself, nor an intense three-pronged travel attack of 1. [...]
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Tags: bags, books, cities, copenhagen, marketing, san francisco, travel
eco-fashion, schmeco-fashion?
i opened up this month’s issue of The Ecologist, a British environmetal magazine that i usually would not have thoroughly leafed through at all, had it not been for the ‘Fashion CHANGE!’ heading on the front cover.
the magazine’s spreads were highlighting London Fashion Week’s Estethica exhibition, which will make its sixth season appearance in February [...]
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Tags: fashion, green, project runway, san francisco