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John Massengale, a prominent architect and sometime colleague of Robert A.M. Stern, has a great recent post about all of the new architecture in Beijing. Many architects have been praising the scale and audacity of both the Beijing building boom in general and the ostentation of many of its new starchitect-designed buildings. In the same…

So, Friday’s opening ceremony is widely being heralded as the coolest choreography since…well…maybe ever. Co-Directed by Zhang Yimou, the director who created Raise the Red Lantern and Hero (one of the coolest visual movies ever), it was pretty off the hook. Or, off the meter Peter. Or too cool for school. Or Something. But Friday…

In the wake of Eva’s recent post about the relative merits of New York and other progressive cities, it seemed like the right time to highlight a few good things happening locally (and elsewhere). All of the groups highlighted below are, in various ways, working to answer the question: how can the built environment in…

This story shall the hygienist teach her intern; And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be drilled and bonded – We few, we happy few, we band of molars

Exciting times at our Back to the Sack effort, ya’ll! On Friday, we sent a letter to Governor Paterson calling for him to let NYC keep its more progressive recycling bill. Attached to the letter was a petition with over 400 signatures in support of our initiative. Check out our sweet ID Project letterhead: Letter-to-gov-paterson…

So, the father of the American community organizing lineage, Saul Alinsky, was someone whose book I read in—or rather, during—college (I had a great habit of reading voraciously, but rarely what was assigned). But in rereading his classic, Rules for Radicals, I just came across a passage that sparked the tinder box of my grey…

After a beautiful week in Seattle and Portland, visiting friends and participating in the PNWA writers’ conference (so many manuscripts! so little time!), I’ve started having day-dreams about moving west. One week isn’t much to base an opinion on, but everything out there seemed so much happier, and calmer and more peaceful than New York.…

Stillman Brown is not impressed with your fireworks. I recently entered a state of amorous crush (crushiness?) and this passage from Pema Chodron’s book The Places That Scare You made me squirm with uncomfortable self-recognition. She is talking about the three lords of materialism, which “represent how we look to externals to give us solid…

Sorry to post out of turn, but this was in today’s New York Times: 10 Things to Scratch from your Worry List. “For most of the year, it is the duty of the press to scour the known universe looking for ways to ruin your day. The more fear, guilt or angst a news story…
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