Stop and Shop?
Rex CurryNew York City CouncilRita Joseph, MemberRepresenting District 40930 Flatbush AvenueBrooklyn, NY 11226 Call 718-287-8762Web: https://council.nyc.gov/district-40/ Facilitate…
Good Doomed or Bad Doomed?
Rex CurrySource: Google Earth on One Day The Report finds two ways to look at the…
Garden Walls
Rex CurryThe garden walls of Albemarle Terrace represent many additions since they were constructed. The following…
The Citizens United Thing
Rex Curry“Since Citizens United, just 12 mega-donors, eight of them billionaires, have paid one dollar out…
Eames for IBM
Rex Curryhttps://youtu.be/55Gpm1Q0abk https://youtu.be/b0vDWqp6J7Y The legendary design team Charles and Ray Eames made films, houses, books, and…
Place Design
Rex CurryDesigners of the Nature CityAll of the answers are right here in tiny forms as…
AKNA’s IT History
Rex CurryBackground In 1996, the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) deregulated telecom services in NY, promising…
Special Districts
Rex CurryReview Districts Following is a review of the Special District language. The view expressed in…
The Informals
Rex CurryIn super generalized terms, by 2030, there will be nearly eight billion people on the earth….
Liz Cheney
Rex CurryC-Span is the only place with Liz Cheney’s whole concession in Wyoming. Watch it and…
The Creative Democracy
Rex CurrySearch “political leaders” for images – the public sphere is vast. Critical :: Reflective ::…
The Brutality of Change
Rex CurryThe brutality in the life and death of rebellious Luke in the 1967 film “Cool…
Unspecified to Self, Unexplored by Others
Rex CurryAvoiding the Stupid Democracy
Rex CurryThe following series of posts attempt to describe how sheer stupidity is fostered in the…
Environmental Works
Rex CurryEnvironmental Works is a nonprofit Community Design Center directed founded in Seattle, Washington (1997). EW’s…
Good Listening
Rex CurryThe practice of making logical arguments in Latin began well over 2,000 years ago. Latin…
The Standard of Risk
Rex CurryThis is an odd post to do at this time. The thoughts of all on…
Robert Gutman
Rex CurryRobert Gutman In an all-encompassing life of research and study of the architecture profession, Robert…
The Opposite End
Rex CurryIn February 2022 an opinion article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy was offered to its…
The Not for Profit Architect
Rex CurryCommunity Design Community Design’s institutional development history began in the 1970s (here). Its practitioners continue…
Nathan Cummings
Rex CurryKavita Nandini Ramdas has departed after four months as president and CEO of the $473 million Nathan Cummings Foundation. If…
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Rex CurryThe program areas (here) offer several places of interest to Design Centers if they have…
Resource for Community Design
Rex CurryPerhaps the best way to ensure a smooth path forward with a nonprofit practice in…
The Graham Foundation
Rex CurryThe Graham Foundation is well known for its contributions to the work of architects and…
Rocky Mountain Institute
Rex CurryCarbon Free Buildings Initiative The Growth in the use of the word “must’ has become…
The Theory of Change
Rex CurryCombining ideas about systems of thinking needed to explain something is based on principles independent…
Don’t Look Up
Rex Curryhttps://youtu.be/gJnxj6kiAKU It wasn’t mortifying George, it was liberating! www.monbiot.com For every concerned adult, it is…
Concrete Thinking
Rex CurryOn December 16, 2021, New York City’s Municipal Art Societ (MAS) published Towards Comprehensive Planning:…
Clear Thinking
Rex CurryIn all communication find concrete words. Concrete words are essential to the discussion of issues. …
Planning Together: Part IX
Rex CurryPlans compare with actual events. The longer it takes, the more confusing it becomes. “Planning…
New York, NY Metro COI
Rex CurryThe argument for hearing out a democratic socialist will occur because we are headed there…
Mandatory Inclusion
Rex CurryThe image above is clipped from the NYC Zoning Resolution The Voluntary Inclusionary Housing Program…
Remote Sense
Rex Curryhttps://www.ted.com/talks/jack_dangermond_an_ever_evolving_map_of_everything_on_earth Jack Dangermond is the founder and president of Esri, a geographic information system software company…
Planning Hazard
Rex CurryOther than the occasional declaration of a national park, housing produces the largest demand for…
The White Chair
Rex CurryMichael Wolf The White Chair Prompt The photographer’s relationship to architecture equips us with a…
Favela Policy
Rex Curry“The demonizing rhetoric of the various international wars on terrorism, drugs, and crime is so…
No Limits Preservation
Rex CurryReview the designation reports and a citywide map of all city landmarks (here). Report PDF…
Albemarle-Kenmore Terrace
Rex CurryThe Albemarle-Kenmore Terrace Historic District was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission…
Rainfall Flooding
Rex Curry“Hurricane Ida devastatingly impacted our area, the urgency to understand this kind of threat and…
Every Problem is a Housing Problem
Rex CurryProviding community-based development organizations (CBDO) with insight into strategies of service for specific client constituencies…
Housing Economics
Rex Curry“Even Texas, the state that added the most housing units, showed decreases in more than…
The Climate Requirement (II)
Rex CurryThe current public investment scheme is labeled the American Jobs Plan (here). A primary purpose…
Housing Map
Rex CurryThe Climate Requirement I
Rex CurryDr. Christopher Jones is a UC Berkeley professor and the CoolClimate Network director. Like many…
I’m On Hold
Rex Curryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh9h4KZpnJU Read “I’m On Hold” by Alex Cornell on Genius Forgive the ads — I love…
Creating a Living Place
Rex CurrySearch Places to Live, and billions are available, enter /NYC for 1.3 billion places, enter/Des…
B Corporations
Rex CurryThe B Lab Company (B Lab) is a nonprofit (IRS Form 990 N.E.C. (W99) that…
Need a Laugh?
Rex Curryand Benign Violations Everything changed when the screen eye brought the horror of the world…
Extinction
Rex CurryExtinction “The purpose of this section is unified by one-word ‘extinction.’ It is a daily…
Megawatts for Megabytes
Rex Curry“New Yorkers, if the ride isn’t killing us; the megabytes might.” These three books are…
Si se puede
Rex CurrySet aside the question of how much of the earth can or should be urbanized….
Income <=>
Rex CurryObama defines the problem extremely well. https://youtu.be/iY05U7GaU5I He actually answers the question about how and…
EPA Saved Cities
Rex Curry11 Ways the EPA Has Helped Americans March 17, 2017 by John Light This post…
The Vehicular Pedestrian
Rex CurryMaking way for the Vehicular Pedestrian will be more than a critical mass issue due…
David Steindl-Rast
Rex CurryThe differences between fully institutionalized poorness such as that established by prisons or prison-like conditions…
Federal Agents
Rex CurryEstablished in Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, the Cabinet’s role is to advise…
Denise Meadows
Rex CurryThe Club of Rome and the Smithsonian Institution’s Consortium for Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse…
Bucky Fuller
Rex CurryThe World Game Report (1969) shows Buckminster Fuller before a map he designed to eliminate distortion and…
Climate Central
Rex CurryChanges in weather or global averages in sea levels and temperature from year to year…
Index Density
Rex CurryPersonal growth is the main stimulant of culture and a balancing agent against the excesses…
Density Favorites
Rex CurryOur one purpose is to participate in a forum on the complexity of urban density…
Jane Jacobs
Rex CurryJane Jacobs’ first reference to density called out the mixed-use character of Boston’s North End…
Frank Lloyd Wright
Rex CurryMoMA, New York, Frank Lloyd Wright and the City: Density vs. Dispersal The American city…
Historic AKNA
Rex CurryThe Montagues & The Chobans I was a director of a community service department at…
My Neighborhood
Rex CurryIntroduction Everyone’s neighborhood is the representation of national issues. The issues reported here describe how…
Science Facts People
Rex CurryThe facts are friendly, the main argument thereafter is proof among scientists and a unified…
Road Density
Rex CurryThe Global Roads Inventory Project (GRIP) dataset describes 60 geospatial datasets on road infrastructure worldwide,…
Black Rock
Rex CurryBlack Rock City In 2010, Black Rock City (aka Harveywood) was the fourth largest city…
Diversity/Density
Rex CurryTwentieth-century urban and technological development events represent immense power. Yet, whether they are judged superficial,…
Open Spaces
Rex CurryTen percent of Planetizen’s Top 100 Public Spaces in the United States were in New York…
Infinity & Change
Rex CurryA Lemniscate is a beautiful shape, easily recognized as a figure eight or an infinity…
Brooklyn is Charitable
Rex CurryElizabeth Warren
Rex CurryThis Fight is Our Fight “We used it all—tax policy, investments in public education, new…
George Monbiot
Rex CurrySelf-fulfilling prophecies are tangible, especially destructive ones. In this sense, the assignment of evolutionary principles…
Becky Bond and Zack Exley
Rex CurryRules for Revolutionaries We know that every action has an alternative that can be opposite…
Van der Ryn and Cowan
Rex CurryChallenging smart-growth-talk has seemed impotent until recently. Perhaps this is why it might change. A decade…
Whitney M. Young
Rex CurryWhitney M. Young, Jr. “You are not a profession that has distinguished itself by your…
Alain Bertaud
Rex CurryMeaning is in People Alain Bertaud is an inquisitor. He pokes at data with experience and…
News Source
Rex CurryThe major networks C-Span, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, etc., are plentiful. Those who broadcast to…
Lower Manhattan
Rex Curry6. David Childs/SOM; World Trade Center Transit Hub Santiago Calatrava; Tower 2, Sir Norman Foster;…
Public Place/Public Process
Rex CurryCourse of Action If criticism is a method that gets to the truth, then so…
Watch/Listen Media
Rex CurryThere is a need for a political review channel covering Congressional Districts 7, 8 and…
Planning Index
Rex CurryIn each post below, The Report seeks observations of how the relationship between the powerful…
Planning Together: Part VIII
Rex CurryStrategic Planning by a Community District Board What if a Community Board decided they wanted…
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