10 Blogs We’re Reading… well, keeping an eye on…
by Dr. Mark David Major, AICP, CNU-A, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor
We say ‘reading’ but really it is ‘periodically checking in on’ because there is way too much content to keep up with everything on the web. We have over 30 newspapers and online journals from the United States and Europe alone bookmarked for daily review! The Outlaw Urbanist is backlogged over a year with interesting news articles we have saved for re-posting on the blog. We are only now (very slowly) beginning to diligently work our way through this backlog. In the meantime, we encourage you to visit these blogs (in no particular order).
1. Clusterfuck Nation by James Howard Kunstler
Now archived on www.kunstler.com but still worth a periodic visit. He is on Twitter but not much so you can follow @Jhkunstler.
2. The Original Green and StudioSky Blog by Steve Mouzon
Mouzon is on Twitter a lot but his feed ebs and flows, you can follow @stevemouzon.
3. The Power of the Network by Tim Stonor (Twitter: @Tim_Stonor)
4. The Pure Hands by Dr. Nick “Sheep” and Professor Ruth Dalton
You can follow Sheep on Twitter @sheepdalton and Ruth @Ruth_C_Dalton. He is on Twitter more often than her.
5. Tiny House Blog by Kent Griswold (Twitter @kentgriswold)
6. Failed Architecture by Michiel van Iersel et al out of Amsterdam (Twitter @FailedArch)
7. Spatial Disjunctures by David Jeevendrampillai
(UCL Research Student whose blog has gone quiet for over a year but we hope returns soon)
8. Urban Formation or Mapping Urban Form and Society by Dr. Laura Vaughan
Professor of Urban Form and Society at UCL, whose blog has also gone quiet for six months… we’re all very busy these days. Laura tends to be on Twitter more than most and she often actively engages in interesting discussions via her feed @urban_formation.
9. Moser Design Group by R. Eric Moser (Twitter @Moserdesign)
10. Urbanism Speakeasy by Andy Boenau
We’re not sure if this qualifies as a blog since it is a podcast series… perhaps an audio blog. Andy is a active participant on Twitter @Boenau.
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In cities, this most often refers to an excess of quantity in the short-term as an unfair exchange for a cheapness of quality in things or ideas over the long-term. For example, a cheap idea efficiently implemented in the short term is often inevitably more expensive than a good idea carefully crafted and implemented over the long term. Synonyms include: miserliness, niggardliness, penny-pinching, or tightfistedness; see also FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition) or clusterfuck. (1400-50; late Middle English parcimony < Latin parsimōnia, parcimōnia frugality, thrift, equivalent to parsi– combining form of parsus, past participle of parcere to economize or parci– combining form of parcus sparing + –mōnia –mony suffix signifying action, state, or condition).
It is measured in metres per second, miles per hour, etc: the derivative of position with respect to time; a rate of occurrence or action, the rate of speed with which something happens; rapidity of action or reaction; the rate of turnover (Middle French velocité, from Latin velocitat-, velocitas, from veloc-, velox quick or swift; probably akin to Latin vegēre to enliven – more at wake; related to volāre to fly. See velocipede, -ty: First Known Use: 15th century).
accepted standards or practice; the quality of being perverted or perverse, meaning wrong or different in a way that is strange or offensive, turned away from what is right or good, contrary to the evidence (Middle English, from Anglo-French purvers, pervers, from Latin perversus, from past participle of pervertere, First Known Use: 14th century). In cities, imperviousity most commonly refers to impervious materials in constructing the built environment (such as roads, walls, etc.) or the obscuring, inversion or privatization of components of the built environment necessarily associated for human activity (such as doors, windows, and porches).
not continuously filled, used, or lived in on a everyday basis for activity, as distinguishable from the storage of things; not occupied, being without content, free from activity; devoid of thought, reflection, or expression; a state of absence; not put to use; also the opposite of full: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin vacant-, vacans, present participle of vacare (to be empty); First Known Use: 14th century.