derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement.html Couldn't resist reposting this video.

This is one of those posts that gets me in trouble for saying the stuff that no one wants to hear after a night of imbibing truth serum I was at the DWBIA Annual General meeting (see footnote1) During it I heard for the second time how much the public would ...

Well the answer is when you live in the world of Bruck Easton where bikes are really diesel fume spewing trucks and bike lanes are equated to 12 lane highways. What color is the sky in his world? Is it green over a blue grass? Of course diverting traffic to Wyandotte ...

Why is there so few women in our city planning department and why is there so few if any women speaking out about how this city is planned and developed? We at Scaledown have been aware of this for some time on our own blog, that it is always us males ...

A great read via The Atlantic Wire - Whither the 21st-Century City? by Heather Horn. "[T]he "information revolution" was supposed to "make cities irrelevant," explains Mario Polèse in City Journal, but "that hasn't happened." Instead, "big cities have continued to grow." Why? And what ...

A partial reposting of a great idea and trend from Kara Hadge of Next American City We at Scaledown had a meeting several weeks ago, where we discussed the possibility of refocusing Scaledown from just blogging to a more action orientated focus via our blog, With Mark Boscariol ...

According to today's Windsor Star, the neverending saga of the Riverside Drive Vista Improvement Project has met with a kindly judge up the 401 who promptly threw the case out of court. The success ...

Artscape Originally uploaded by markboscariol Artscape - how was it? Well...... It was nice, but for a scaledowner, there was little new information. The most ...