Our block has a mix of young families and retirees, renters and owners, bicyclists and SUV-drivers. If we were a recipe, we’d boast a wild array of flavors. But we don’t really mix. I hope Sundays at Six will stir things up.
Entries Tagged as 'Urban Design'
A Simple Recipe: Sundays at Six
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
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Festivals Animate City Life
June 24th, 2010 · No Comments
We bantered good-naturedly about the “chair people” and the “blanket people,” wishing that there was height-limitation zoning for free concerts. But the truth is, the lack of rules heightened our enjoyment. We made new friends. We mixed our dips with their chips. Seltzer calls it “surprise without fear.”
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LCC Promotes Pluck, Not Luck
May 27th, 2010 · No Comments
The city should follow Spilde’s lead, get a little pluck of its own, and plan a new civic square at 10th and Olive. Where right now we have a downtown hole, we can begin to make downtown whole.
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Mac Court’s Future Second Life
March 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Architects and urban planners are beginning rediscover “old and improved.” Building standards are beginning to calculate and consider the energy that went into building the original structure as something worth saving. The future is calling AAA to reuse the past.
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Renewing Urban Renewal
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments
The city has gotten admirably creative about swapping with Springfield or with Lane County to achieve shared goals, but this issue demands no fancy footwork. A nickel lost by our schools is a nickel paid to our schools. Period.
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Built, But Not Ugly
October 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Local designers have the skills to build beautiful buildings, but they won’t get built without the permission of the clients. When it comes to publicly financed buildings, that’s you and me.
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Not-Just-Saturday Market
October 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment
Young people settle in places where they see opportunity. Saturday Market provides that when it allows anyone to hang out a custom-crafted shingle, even if it’s made of cardboard and crayons. You can start a business in Eugene for less than $100. If you have the drive and the wits, you can succeed.
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Downtown Development Ripples Outward
September 24th, 2009 · No Comments
When it was built in the 1980s, there was hope that it would spark redevelopment, but its central downtown location didn’t attract commerce, and the adjacent conference hotel has probably not improved so much as stayed the same.
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We Need Cars, But Do We Need to Own Them?
May 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment
We need a deregulated taxi system. Something less like a limousine service and more like codified hitch-hiking. Where better than Eugene to test a safer version of the transportation choice of the 1960s? I’ve seen it in revival recently.
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Community Discovers Good Ideas
April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
If you abandon hope that the original problem will shape the solutions to be discovered, fecundity explodes. Intellectual Ventures operates on the premise that good ideas are a dime a dozen.
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