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Fascinating documentary video (just 6 1/2 minutes long) on the rise of cycling infrastructure in Holland.
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Besides of the historical resume of the process, it is really important to see that there are critical situations in which we have to change our ways of doing. The key for the Dutch bicycles were the amount of car deaths, the first oil crisis and a past history of bicycle use.
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An essay written by Adam Bahlke, posted to my WetPaint wiki, Victoria City Style Council. Adam was 14 when he wrote this.
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This essay was written in the summer of 2005. How I came to write an essay on the history of the Upper Harbour was partly because of all the buzz generated around the then recently proposed Dockside Green project, and also because my interest in the Upper Harbour's history had been sparked after several walks along Harbour Road and the Railyards development. Happily, this essay also managed to fulfill a school requirement, so I therefore felt justified to spend several afternoons going through old books and records at the Maritime Museum and looking through the online Royal BC Museum archives. However, since this essay is nearing a year old, whenever the words "current" and so forth are used, it has to be remembered that the events are a) no longer "current" and b) the companies/people involved might no longer exist in Victoria, BC.
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Google has put the LIFE photo archive online: "Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."

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Transcript of speech Shirky gave at April 23/08 Web2.0 conference. For me, ineresting to think about in relation to cities, and how industrialization created anxiety about and problems relating to crowding ("slums"). Now, "here comes *everybody*" means that there's another wave of "crowding" or ...crowds, and it's interesting to think about how this might play out.

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Dan Bertolet of Seattle-based blog "Huge ass city" spent some time visiting Medfield, Massachusetts (where I gather he was raised). He temporarily renamed his blog "Wee ass suburb." This particular entry looks at two houses -- one, the Dwight-Derby house from 1621, the other a 2005 "Extreme Makeover" McMansion. Throughout, I've found Dan's entries really intriguing, but didn't comment. Today, however, someone commented with "Who gives a flying f*ck about Medfield," which prompted me to post a comment. Click through to read. I do give a flying f*ck, I guess.

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