Category: Architecture
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1937: Krugman’s Victory Dance
As a Krugman fanboy, I’ve been getting a big kick out of his victory dances of late– rubbing it in the faces of the rightist ideologue economists, the austerians from the Austrian School of Economic Destruction. His latest end zone taunt is a blog post entitled, simply, 1937. (If it really were a football game, he’d have a…
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Never Leave Home Without Your Geographer: Krugman, Gruber
In my daily dose of Krugman I really enjoyed this: China also derives big advantages from the fact that so much of the supply chain is already there. A former Apple executive explained: “You need a thousand rubber gaskets? That’s the factory next door. You need a million screws? That factory is a block away.”…
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Epic Fit to Print
Epic gets big NYT feature today. It’s just too bad Epic’s brilliant CEO couldn’t have found a way to integrate the company into the urban fabric. The paving of farmland and it’s car-necessary location negates all the groovy-green stuff going into that oh-so-pastoral office park. I know several long-time as well as newly-hired Epicureans, and…
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Pleasant’s Wrecking Ball
Pleasant & Co. wish to demolish the spirit of State Street.
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Downtown Plan: Pave the Lakes! Drive a Stake through Miffland!
Madison’s Downtown Plan seeks to kill everything that makes Madison not Rockford: Kill Miffland, Pave the Lakes.
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Pave, Baby, Pave!
Madison: A city hardwiring itself for mandatory driving, mandatory energy gluttony, mandatory dirty water, mandatory flooding. Pave, Baby, PAVE!
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Green Your Home + Boost Sustainable Atwood!
UrbanThoreau LLC teams up with Sustainable Atwood to green homes across the neighborhood!
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Cycle Chic and Urban Revival
It’s happening…the hipsters are taking over the world, and infiltrating the fashion world! Next thing you know, bloomers will be back in vogue! The whole bike fashionista thing has long been brewing here in Madison, and the best viewing perches are Cafe Zoma and Mermaid Cafe on the East Side, and, of course, any cafe…