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Archive for January, 2009

A Day in the (car-free) life
A Day in the (car-free) life
By Chris | January 16, 2009 | Feedback (21)
An errand that most people wouldn’t bat an eyelash to include into their daily schedule had me planning my day around it. You see, I had to make my way ...
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An evening with Witold Rybczynski
An evening with Witold Rybczynski
By Chris | January 15, 2009 | Feedback (2)
On Thursday, January 29 (7:30 PM, at the Freed Orman Centre of Assumption University), the Humanities Research Group at the University of Windsor are hosting "Last Harvest: From Cornfield to New ...
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Want a Better City? Make it Happen
Want a Better City? Make it Happen
By Chris | January 15, 2009 | Feedback (6)
Our post today comes from local blogger Victoria Rose, who writes regularly in her blog My Local Food. A self-avowed locavore, Victoria cherishes and champions all that is local. A trait that ...
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Peak Oil TV
Peak Oil TV
By Chris | January 13, 2009 | Feedback (1)
Once you get beyond the hokey production quality, the hippy host and "Patty The Weather Girl", there's some great discussion going on in this episode of TVSet, a community access television show that has been around for 18 years in Portland, Oregon. On January 10 the long-running public affairs ...
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PsychoGeo Media Mash-Up
PsychoGeo Media Mash-Up
By Chris | January 13, 2009 | Feedback (14)
I know - it seems like we're being innundated with this "PsychoGeographic Walk" that Phog, Spacing, International Metropolis and ScaleDown brought you at the end of December. Tom over at Phog Lounge has been posting the numerous videos that he took (here, here and ...
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ScaleDown Radio, January 12, 2009
ScaleDown Radio, January 12, 2009
By Chris | January 12, 2009 | Feedback (0)
Windsor City Planner Thom Hunt is in the studio today. I'm pretty sure regular ScaleDown readers know how we feel about the discipline of urban planning and the role our built environment ...
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Is Windsor Sustainable?
Is Windsor Sustainable?
By Mark | January 12, 2009 | Feedback (6)
I came across another couple of great resources that I didn't know about. I know this is a lot fo regurgitation again but, hey, thats my way of blogging  www.thenaturalstep.org  This brought me to the Alberta site based on the natural step ...
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Another University acknowledges it responsibility to its city
Another University acknowledges it responsibility to its city
By Mark | January 12, 2009 | Feedback (9)
Hey, Dennis, you still believe that the DWBIA was wrong to even ask the University to come downtown?  Highlights: Ryerson's $23-million purchase of Sam the Record Man's landmark site will enable the school to build a new library and expand onto the city's most important street, while also revitalizing ...
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