“Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller’s, only to know that […]
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PostArctica: Walk # 2 Part 1
“With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. […]
Continue readingThings Are Good: Architecture Should Be A Story
For architect Ole Scheeren, the people who live and work inside a building are as much a part of that building as concrete, steel and glass. He asks: Can architecture be about collaboration and storytelling instead of the isolation and hierarchy of a typical skyscraper? Visit five of Scheeren’s buildings — from a twisted tower […]
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Continue readingThings Are Good: Parks Make Kids Smarter and Reduce Health Inequality
Urban parks can greatly improve the quality of a neighbourhood and it can improve the wellbeing of all people in the area. Of all the users of a park kids may benefit the most. A park in a city gives kids a place to play and it helps them mentally too. The study authors suggest […]
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Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 1
“Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.” ― Jane […]
Continue readingPostArctica: More Backlog
Some more pictures from over the last 4 or 5 months.
Continue readingPostArctica: Backlog
Some more from recent months.
Continue readingPostArctica: The Searchers
I like discussing influences which may also be a way of simply saying I am not ashamed to admit where it all comes from….anyway, took a shot of a “back […]
Continue readingPostArctica: This Is Not A Bus Stop
This is not a bus stop That is not me but it’s got an ash tray and a place to sit Most (temporarily) abandoned buildings do not provide this Over, […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Trouble On Troy?
Walking down here yesterday and this valve thing started to blow. It’s a strange sight with pipes leading from one fire hydrant to another. The other side of the street […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Today’s Walk
Went to the Point today, not a long walk but a good one. Marguerite Bourgeoys Park. Random telephoto shot of sculpture in the park. Further up Wellington. Les Filles du Roi. […]
Continue readingThings Are Good: Green Roofs Are An Urban Paradise
Green roofs are pretty great because they assist in flood prevention and can grow crops. Indeed, green roofs are growing in popularity around the world because they are great for cleaning air and cooling cities too! It’s almost as if many urban problems can be solved by converting unused space into usable green environs. In […]
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Continue readingPostArctica: My Stieglitz Shot
The things we do to get a good picture… One of the first very important figures to passionately endorse photography as an art form was Alfred Stieglitz, perhaps even better […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Some I liked
Again, some random shots from recent months…
Continue readingThings Are Good: Change The City, Not Your Fashion
Toronto runs ad campaigns that blame victims for being hit by car drivers, the campaign is so bizarre because it says it comes to pedestrian fashion choice. You’d think the city would learn that blaming victims because of what they wear is a bad idea (see Slut Walk for a previous example of this). To […]
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Continue readingPostArctica: Dirt
Dirt Dirt is an ongoing visual project that addresses ideas concerning the city in the period before the Arctic collapse (Polar Caps buh bye). It is really just a […]
Continue readingPostArctica: At The River Today
Not much ice left out there, just this weird strip of chunks floating along next to the shore. You could hear it tinkling, like chimes.
Continue readingPostArctica: Recently Here and There
Just some semi random shots from recent months.
Continue readingPostArctica: Community Exchange?
Saw this while strolling on Rushbrooke in Verdun this evening. Figuring it’s a community exchange? Great idea in any case.
Continue readingPostArctica: Social Housing on Gaetan-Laberge
Members of the comite d’action des citoyennes et citoyens de Verdun (CACV) met with the public on Saturday to raise awareness of the situation about development of the land along […]
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