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正如許多批判性觀點所認為的_規劃的背後是由一項與「幸福」有關的認識基礎—這種現代-理性思考由各種文化活動所分享—驅動。亞當斯（Thomas Adams）曾於1932年指出_「規劃的總體目標在於提昇人類的健康_安全_以及便利等福祉_透過有秩序且均衡的社區實質成長可以達成這些目標」。這個箴言幾乎像是教條般地出現在全球現代化過程中的各種規劃文獻當中_規劃師的責任就是在既有的混亂當中_義無反顧_不假思索地創造新的空間秩序。首先定義「鄰里單元」這個規劃尺度的歐文（Raymond Unwin）不也認為_透過規劃_必可提昇「人們的溫良與精緻的本能」嗎？
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Mar 24, 08
這與 storycorps 有什麼不同？A public dialogue about belief - one essay at a time.
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Mar 25, 08
Greenville Daily Photo-living downtown 是很好的生活紀錄觀察。因為日常的細微感觸而對生活空間遠景產生好奇...可能是一般民眾開始關注公共事務(包括文件)的觸媒...
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I’m not sure if the construction is for new housing or a complete rework of the park. Possibly a local reader can provide some insight.
PS: Some Google research has turned up the answer. At the GreeterGreenville website under the haynie-sirrine master plan section I found a document which includes a recommendation to create an important public space to honor the memory of Miss Ellie Mae Logan.
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一个时期来，中央政府对于地方基层政府的掌控不能不说显现无力，在我的草原访问途中，听到最多的出自农民之口的话就是“中央是个好中央”、“胡主席、温总理是个慈面菩萨，就是地方上不好！干部为非作歹！”的朴素之言。
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What, then, is the timeline for condemnation and demolition of the Plaza Theatre? Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy said the county expects to acquire the property in 2007, but that certain procedures must be followed. "We are very anxious to proceed with condemnation and to remove this eyesore from the Patchogue community," Levy said. "We're now at a point where an RFP [request for proposal] for a consultant to present an economic development plan is about to be issued." Such a plan is a requirement of condemnation, the county executive explained. "The economic development plan has to show how condemnation will dovetail with the overall plans for the area ... and we hope to have this property vested in Suffolk County by the end of 2007," Levy said.
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這篇西藏地區人權的調查報告http://www.xizang-zhiye.org/b5/arch/writings/waiguoren/sifa.html中就自治、藏文化、人口遷移、人權、自由申論為何西藏地區目前並不算自治、藏文化遭受嚴重的破壞、藏人持續離開到印度，以及全中國都沒有足夠的人權與自由，另外還有對環境的破壞。針對教育與經濟開發特摘錄於下：
對藏人孩童必須給予低級教育方面中國政府邁出了大步。但是西藏的教育製度給與中國人的孩子更多的利益，從而使西藏孩子的利益受損。進行民族區別對待的明顯 證明是各門課均以中文授課，因而藏人孩童入學率低且退學率高，西藏人的學校設施條件差 ;教師質量低 ;藏人很難入校。藏人文盲率比中國的文盲平均比例多三倍。而且其教育程序，在藏人孩童的心目中不僅無法對自己的民族文化之實質和語言、文字、價值觀等產生 驕傲與尊重，反而使其產生中國的文化和價值觀難與匹敵的感覺從而消沉。
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Looking up at the display in fascination and bewilderment, an elderly lady stumbles over a pothole in the pavement. Helped back to her feet by a younger man, she decides to complain to the council about the pothole. The man suggests he can do that right now, from his iPod Touch and using the library’s open public wifi, by registering the presence of a pothole at this point on the local problems database, Fix My Street. The old woman stares at him quizzically as it takes him fifty seconds to close the website he had been looking it on his mobile (Google Maps directions for “hairdressers near SW4”, a phrase he’ll shortly have to type in again, having neglected to bookmark it) and access fixmystreet.com. He spends the next few minutes indicating the presence of a pothole outside the library on Fix My Street (unaware of the postcode, he has to select one from a few possible matches on street name), before he moves on, satisfied with his civic good deed for the day. The elderly lady had long since shuffled off, muttering to herself. Although Fix My Street smartly forwards on all issues to the corresponding council, a beleaguered under-trained temp in the also underfunded 'pavements team' is unaware of fixmystreet.com and unable to cope with the levels of complaint, and so the pothole claims five more victims over the next two weeks until someone rings up about it.
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Apr 14, 08
訪問 BrooWaha - La 地域報(http://losangeles.broowaha.com/index.php)辦報人。對於初始構想，心有戚戚焉。
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Social networking is not one of the main goals of BrooWaha and I took particular care when designing the website to keep it from becoming another vain attempt at reproducing what MySpace is today. If people want to use BrooWaha to meet bloggers, journalists, writers, etc, in addition to interacting with the site as a newspaper, more power to them. However, I don't think it will ever be primarily a social networking site. People will go to BrooWaha to read news articles and learn about Los Angeles and the world. BrooWaha is also a great tool for people to practice their writing and get feedback
on it from other authors and readers. Finally it is a great platform to share ideas, discuss news, and possibly also make friends, enemies, and rethink journalism for the better.
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The ability to collect, store, and manage data is increasing quickly, but our ability to understand it remains constant. In an attempt to gain better understanding of data, fields such as information visualization, data mining and graphic design are employed, each solving an isolated part of the specific problem, but failing in a broader sense: there are too many unsolved problems in the visualization of complex data. As a solution, this dissertation proposes that the individual fields be brought together as part of a singular process titled Computational Information Design.
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May 11, 08
這段很適合說明水規費的必要,esp. 礁溪溫泉.
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This is not to say the world is running out of water. The same amount exists on Earth today as millions of years ago — roughly 360 quintillion gallons. It evaporates, coalesces in clouds, falls as rain, seeps into the earth, and emerges in springs to feed rivers and lakes, an endless hydrologic cycle ordained by immutable laws of chemistry. But 97 percent of it is in the oceans, where it's useless unless the salt can be removed — a process that consumes enormous quantities of energy. Water fit for drinking, irrigation, husbandry, and other human uses can't always be found where people need it, and it's heavy and expensive to transport. Like oil, water is not equitably distributed or respectful of political boundaries; about 50 percent of the world's freshwater lies in a half-dozen lucky countries.
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May 11, 08
quote| this "failure" was also a success in making art a charged public event. |這句話真真切, 有體無魂的公共藝術實在沒什麼意思.
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We no more need tame contemporary art in our squares than statues of Margaret Thatcher. What we do need is for art to be truly public, for it to have the largeness of vision to engage imaginations and the intelligence to speak of matters that concern us all.
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May 11, 08
public 的定義與反射|Public art at its best helps us to see the rest of the space differently. | 簡單明瞭
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One of the problems is that public art is such an amorphous category. There is certainly no single solution to the question of what makes a successful piece. But a commission is more likely to succeed if its purpose and function are questioned at the start.
Is the work to be a sculpture or an installation? Is it for an existing community with an existing identity, or a new community whose identity can be influenced by the commission? Is it to be permanent or temporary? If temporary, what follows? Is the commission primarily a sop to a developers' conscience, a blatant attempt to gloss over a basically mediocre development? How is the community to be involved? How is the artist involved? What is the process for choosing a short list of artists for the commission - if this is the route chosen? And finally, who chooses the actual commission?
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Paleontology confirms that Mother Nature is a responsible steward of her forests. She provides balance for component species with her invention called “restoration;” the removal of older tree growth stands and successions of plant growth. Mother Nature manages her forest’s health with such devices as fire, wind, flooding, disease and insects. These devices, as primitive as they may be, ensure a productive forest ecosystem over the long-term.
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Preservation is a manmade prescription designed to age woodlands. Ironically, preservation is a remedy that smothers plants and shrubs by maturing the forest canopy. The forest vegetation is replaced by a succession of invasive plant life, ingredients not found in Mother Nature’s recipe book for a healthy wilderness.
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雖然整篇文字與引用文字產生了很不幸福的矛盾XD
- pisecs aries on 2008-03-15