Archive for October, 2008
A silo is a terrible place to live.
si·lo
pronunciation -[sahy-loh], plural -los, verb, -loed, -lo·ing.
–noun
As in, "All too often, people from different parts of the city government operate within their own silos." A term that once was ...
What do you do when you want to go south on a northbound one-way street (say, Pelissier)
This solution is called a contra-flow bike lane, and they retrofit this one in Boulder, Colorado by removing a bunch of on-street parking. Pretty sweet, eh?...
"It's great to have the support of the local government and the cycling community to make my business a success." -Framebuilder
That quote comes from page one of a two page report on the bicycle industry in Portland, Oregon. ...
This post is a personal favour to my wonderful wife (she is so super cool) and as a nod to the great works done for the community by the following: The AIDS Committee of Windsor, Fringe Festival, Council on Aging and the Multicultural Council of Windsor and Essex County....
Unless you’ve been living under a giant slab of granite, you know the world is in financial peril. I am a listener, I like to listen to people as they talk. I don’t eavesdrop, I just sit there, quietly in a cacophony of conversation that happens ...
I have to be honest with you. I have become so absent minded in the wake of my tendancy to take on every project handed to me, that I ...
Many thanks to Good friend Shane for sending me along this link. I laughed my tooshie off, and then realized that there's more truth to this video than parody. It fits well with our focus on how arts and culture augments both our quality of life, as well as our ...
As this is my first post as an official Scaledown contributor, I would like to firstly thank all of you for having me here. The fact that a community like this exists gives me hope in a city full of shadows. Again, I thank Chris, Mark, James and all of ...
Contributors
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- 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
- Who Watches the Watchmen?
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Chris Holt in Alas, the grass is not greener:
A lot of it was geography too, George, but I catch...- george in Alas, the grass is not greener:
The difference between European and North American... - Dave in Lessons Ignored:
You are right Chris. My apologies to you and your blog. I agree as well,... - Lasalle Al in Lessons Ignored:
If you read the thread, you’ll see I never “bitched...
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