Archive for May, 2008
A 100 Percent Renewable Energy Revolution
“Future-proofing our cities,” “renewable cities” and the “100 percent renewable energy region” -- these are the big ideas making their way around Europe’s city halls, regional planning offices and departments ...
Lasalle may soon become the poster-child for scaledown.ca.
Thom Hunt, I know you just got the job but, I hope you are paying attention to our neighbouring communities because they are starting to get wise to the idea of making attractive places. You may have seen the article in the ...
When our city talks about what our downtown or city core needs, why does the word gentrification rarely come up.
In my view the core starting with Downtown desperately needs gentrification. The affordable housing stock in Windsor is great enough to take decades for any negative consequences to even surface. Drawing ...
I thought I would pass along this message from the carfree cities list-serve that is run by Joel Crawford, author of Carfree Cities
Current CNN headline:
Oil rises as Saudi Arabia nixes Bush plea
The OPEC nation ...
I was fortunate enough to be invited on the train to Toronto as a representative of the Windsor International Film Festival. (The DWBIA sponsored the event separately and Larry Horwitz went representing them) Although I didn't question the invitation, ...
I remember a few years back when a fire claimed the life of a precious block of walkable urbanity at 1706 Wyandotte in Olde Walkerville (Thanks for digging up this picture Andrew!). You know the ...
If you ever need a place to go and sit to contemplate the absurdities of sprawl, may I suggest the top of the old landfill near the Windsor/Tecumseh border - three hundred and sixty degrees of "what were we thinking?"
No kidding, first of all you're sitting on top of a ...
In a past life, I raced bicycles. I don't race anymore, I've grown older and now I don't need prove anything to myself, I'm happy.
But, I still follow the sport; the internet is great for keeping up with the Euro-pro circuit. When I was a kid we only got monthly ...
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- Chimczuk - Saying no for all the wrong reasons
- Lessons Ignored
- A New Focus (or, the birth of a resident association)
- Geezer-Mart
- Chimczuk Museum inc- Answers that raise questions
- Chimczuk Part 2 - Why so harsh of a post
- Chimzcuk Museum
- Erosion of the elements of liveability
- University chooses architect with disastrous Windsor record
- Sulja Case has Scaledown twist
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Jim in Chimczuk - Saying no for all the wrong reasons:
What I’m saying is that they...- Mark in Chimczuk - Saying no for all the wrong reasons:
Problem is that the will stipulates the... - Jim in Chimczuk - Saying no for all the wrong reasons:
The city’s position is that a... - Chris Holt in Alas, the grass is not greener:
A lot of it was geography too, George, but I catch...
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