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DfD: Design for Disassembly in the built environment: a guide to closed-loop design and building (PDF)

This is a 69-page PDF, self-explanatory title, prepared on behalf of the City of Seattle by Hamer Center for Community Design, Penn State U. Haven't had time to read through yet, but the table of contents includes: Introduction; Principles; Design Process; Case Studies; Components & Materials; Model Deconstruction Specification; References.

Tags: dfd, design, design_for_disassembly, seattle, buildings, pdf on 2009-06-02 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Ignite Show: Monica Guzman on Being an Awesome News Commenter - O'Reilly Radar

Fabulous short video clip of Monica Guzman explaining how to be an awesome news commenter

Tags: local_news, blogging, business_model, newspapers, ignite, seattle, monica_guzman, news, o'reilly on 2009-04-18 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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A design-savvy city defined, by Knute Berger (Crosscut Seattle)

For future reference: Berger's article about a report by architectural firm RMJM, which identifies America's top 10 best-designed cities. His article focuses on the aspect of heritage preservation, which factors into RMJM's weighting and criteria, and he notes that Portland seems to beat out Seattle.

From there, Berger segues into whether or not (or to what extent) citizens are "pleased with their urban architecture," and observes that only LA residents are "less happy with their city" than Seattlites. (I'm not sure how he manages the leap from heritage preservation to 'being pleased" by contemporary/new architecture, but there you have it.)

Anyway, the really useful thing about this article is that Berger lists the 7 categories RMJM used to answer the question, "what makes a design-savvy city?", and also summarizes each aspect (with commentary of his own, in italics). All in all, the list makes a great framework for thinking about urban design.

Tags: urban_design, urbanplanning, seattle, crosscut, knute_berger, heritage, preservation, designsavvy on 2008-07-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

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YouTube - Final Cut#2: West Seattle Blog

- great video, some interesting info.

Tags: seattle, youtube, local_news, blogs, bloggers, west_seattle_blog, hyper_local on 2008-06-07 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Crosscut Seattle - Neighborhood blogs: the mom-and-pop news business

- note the ref to the "instant journalist" blogging software: this could be really useful for setting up a MC blog...??

Tags: crosscut, local_news, blogs, hyper_local, seattle, neighbourhoods on 2008-06-07 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Paul Krugman Joins Team Density | hugeasscity

danb comments on Paul Krugman's recent NYT column, which he wrote while in a Berlin mid-rise/ low-rise neigjborhood. I posted a comment back about amenities, and whether it's possible to create architecture w/ amenities when you're building on small (10K) city lots and trying to stick to low-rise (or low mid-rise at best). File under "commentary."

Tags: hugeasscity, density, seattle, paul_krugman, james_kunstler, commentary, low_rise, mid_rise, high_rise on 2008-05-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

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The painful cost of booming growth | Seattle Times Newspaper (Local News)

"Puget Sound is a funnel. Anything that we do at the top end of the funnel comes out at the bottom end." Sometimes painful reading, this article looks at the effect of bad wastewater runoff management and its deleterious effect on the environment. "Barbie Doll" housing colonies are the worst offenders, not least because old bylaws & regulations haven't kept up (or up to date) with new developments in treatment and approach.

Tags: seattle, puget_sound, sprawl, growth, planning, water, run_off on 2008-05-12 -All Annotations (0) -About

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In Defense of Townhouses — Sightline Daily (formerly Tidepool)

- great article by Eric de Place on why so many new TH developments are so ugly. As his lede says, "How parking laws make housing expensive. And ugly."

Tags: sightline_daily, seattle, urban_design, urbanplanning, cars, parking, architecture on 2008-05-01 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Site-Specific

4culture and other arts orgs in Seattle / King County have teamed up to create an online site where you can find out what's going on in the arts, site-specifically, so to speak. They have a forum (albeit still under construction), but the Schedule part seems functional, and has an "attend this" feature -- quite cool.

Tags: sitespecific, seattle, 4culture, local_news on 2008-04-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Seattle's historic contradictions - Crosscut Seattle -

Sparked in part by the designation of a "googie" (a Denny's diner) as a heritage landmark structure (a designation that the deep-pocketed owner, the Benaroya company, is going to fight in court), Berger reports on subsequent repercussions and discussions among "representatives from the state Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Historic Seattle, the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation, and others." The comments thread is pretty interesting, too, and there are parallels to what Victoria is facing in its considerations around "landmarking" modern buildings.

Tags: architecture, crosscut, heritage, historic_preservation, knute_berger, seattle on 2008-03-26 -All Annotations (0) -About

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How to marry a Canadian - Crosscut Seattle -

"When a Seattle writer tried to recruit some north-of-the-border help in her fight against cancer, she learned how different our countries really are." Seattle cancer blogger Jeanne Sather writes about the differences between Canadian and American health care (including, especially, cost, and access to). Her blog, The Assertive Cancer Patient (http://www.assertivepatient.com/) provides real time details and updates.

Tags: breast_cancer, canada, cancer, crosscut, health, health_care, jeanne_sather, seattle, usa on 2008-03-11 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Huh? As fortune declines, newspaper readership rises - Crosscut Seattle

Great article by Douglas McLennan (of http://www.artsjournal.com/). I've had this open in a browser tab since the end of February -- postponing bookmarking it because I felt I needed to annotate it / comment on it appropriately. But now I'm bookmarking it with just one bit of advice: just read the article, especially if you're interested in newspapers and news media.

The issue McLennan addresses? From the lead-in to the article: "More people are reading newspapers than ever before — on the Web. Yet publishers in Seattle and elsewhere continue to lament their decline. Why are they failing to capitalize on all these new eyeballs?"

Figure it out, Mr or Ms Newspaperperson.

Tags: crosscut, newspapers, seattle on 2008-03-04 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Here's one reason students Barack the vote: respect - Crosscut

Wow, and wow again! U-Dub communications prof David Domke describes how his citizen-journalist blogger students were treated by the politicians campaigning for president, and the difference between Hillary & Barack are astounding.

One of Domke's students, Jennifer Ware, describes it like this: "John McCain spoke in Seattle (the same day) to about 500 people at the Westin Hotel’s conference room. Clinton spoke to a gathering of 5,000 at a waterfront pier (on February 7). Obama spoke at Key Arena, home to the Seattle Supersonics; it seats 18,000 and it wasn’t nearly big enough. People were sitting on the stairs, in the aisles. Seasoned reporters were smiling and nodding softly as he spoke. Some people had tears in their eyes when he came on stage. There’s all kinds of spin out there, but you simply can’t spin those numbers. Or the stark contrast to the others in the race."

Domke adds, further down: "It seems that the take-home point here is this: The Clinton campaign has made the case that Obama is nothing but rhetoric; he’s supposedly all words, while she’s all action. Our experiences showed us that their campaigns — at least in Seattle — were exactly the opposite. In their treatment of my students, Clinton’s campaign was all talk, while Obama’s was all walk."

Obama for President!

Tags: blogging, citizen_journalism, clinton, obama, politics, presidency, respect, seattle on 2008-02-26 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Tear down a viaduct, and then the wars really begin - Crosscut Seattle -

LOL, this sounds like Victoria, BC, too...

Tags: crosscut, redevelopment, san_francisco, seattle, urban_renewal, viaduct on 2008-02-20 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Hitting close to home on affordability - Crosscut Seattle -

Great article by Crosscut's Knute Berger on affordability/ housing costs in Seattle, with much to be gleaned for us (BC, Southern Vancouver Island, Lower Mainland), too. "You can blame many factors for the high cost of housing in Seattle, from growth management to infrastructure expansion. But we often overlook another reason: personal taste."

Tags: affordability, affordable_housing, crosscut, knute_berger, seattle on 2008-02-20 -All Annotations (0) -About

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We are not 'the next Silicon Valley' by Margaret Pugh O'Mara (Crosscut Seattle)

Really interesting article from the historian's perspective on what it takes to "be" Silicon Valley (hint: certain historical confluences helped) and why it's unlikely that another place will "be" just like that. On the other hand, great places can build on their core strengths, and there are lessons to be learned in this. As O'Mara writes: "In this worldwide network, the most vital innovation centers are those that know their own strengths, provide exciting and dynamic environments for people and firms, and have the resources and institutions that provide a home for new and exciting ideas." I added a comment to this article, particularly as it jives with something Richard Florida also posted today.

Tags: business, creatives, crosscut, margaret_o'mara, seattle, silicon_valley, technology on 2008-02-18 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Place Wars - Seattle vs. Silicon Valley (Richard Florida and The Creative Class Exchange)

Florida points to two techologists, one SV-based (Michael Arrington), the other now once again Seattle-based (Glenn Kelman), having a bit of a dust-up over whether one region/ city is better than the other. Robert Scoble also weighs in, as do several others. Of particular interest is that Crosscut today also published Margaret Pugh O'Mara's article on the Seattle - Silicon Valley comparison. I commented here (and in Crosscut).

Tags: business, creatives, richard_florida, seattle, silicon_valley, technology on 2008-02-18 -All Annotations (0) -About

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5th-and-Columbia---South on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Hmmm, what do we think of this overhang? The rendering was posted by someone in the comments board to David Brewster's article in Crosscut about this development.

Tags: architecture, crosscut, flickr, seattle, urban_development on 2008-02-14 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Genuflecting to the high rises by David Brewster (Crosscut - Seattle)

Crosscut's publisher, David Brewster, calls out the Seattle P-I and the Seattle Times for their gushing endorsements of two major downtown Seattle development proposals (Fifth Ave. twin condo towers by Ishmael Leyva Architects and, also on Fifth Ave., the United Methodist Church block by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca). Brewster points to the curious alliance btw developers and eco-density champions, which is wearing a bit thin in Vancouver, acc. to an article by Frances Bula, which Brewster references (see http://tinyurl.com/333ehj ). In Vancouver, there's talk of putting density & height in formerly sacrosanct areas, like Gastown & Chinatown, too. Some interesting comments showing up in the comments board, too.

Tags: architecture, crosscut, development, downtown, eco_density, seattle, urban_design on 2008-02-14 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Seattle.gov - Seattle Right-of-Way Improvement Manual - Latest Online Manual

Useful reference from City of Seattle re. street / urbanscape improvements, broken down in detailed format according to features (from "awnings" to "underground utilities").

Tags: planning, reference, seattle, street_scape, urban_design on 2008-01-17 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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