by David | Feb 20, 2014 | transportation, urbanism
If you don’t stand back We can’t get out of the train And you won’t get on
by David | Feb 18, 2014 | economics, urbanism
Listening to the radio and drifting in and out of sleep this morning, I thought I heard somebody say that “destroying stockpiles of ivory will dampen demand” for it. Eh?Apparently, Hong Kong is planning to destroy 28 tons of elephant ivory that it has...
by David | Jan 21, 2014 | culture, photo, urbanism
I read in the New Yorker (well, on the New Yorker’s Goings On About Town app) that Giuseppe Penone had installed three life-size and lifelike bronze trees in Madison Square Park and balanced some boulders up in them. The most understated and ecologically minded...
by David | Jan 2, 2014 | photo, urbanism
by David | Nov 4, 2013 | eating, economics, urbanism
This evening, I was making my semi-usual Monday after work loop heading to the Boston City Hall Farmers Market to pick up raw material for dinner. As I approached the market I thought, “wow, it’s nice that they have those lights so people can still shop...
by David | Oct 7, 2013 | reading & writing, urbanism
This morning the estimable editors at UniversalHub described a truck as “freshly storrowed,” meaning that it had been driven under a famously (but not famously enough I guess) too-low overpass on Storrow Drive and either gotten stuck or had the top ripped...
