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Ontario’s heritage places of worship may be characterized as living cultural heritage resources
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillThis blog post concerns Heritage Places of Worship: A Guide to Conserving Heritage Places of Worship in Ontario Communities. As I understand, this is an Ontario Heritage Tool kit document. You can access the PDF file of the guide by clicking here. Alternatively you can access the file by clicking on the following link: Heritage_Tool_Kit_Places_of_Worship The […]
Milton Glaser (2000) argues that anything purposeful can be called an act of design
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter/by Jaan PillHow can we contextualize design? A good place to begin is with the genesis of Nathan Glaser’s career as a designer. Cats and bats Milton Glaser remarks in Art is work: Graphic design, interiors, objects and illustration (2000) that he’s drawn to the observation and drawing of animals. “I realize,” he explains (p. 95), “that what […]
Article by Lindsay Howe in Lakeshore Villages Community Newspaper highlights Jane’s Walk: May 4th and 5th in Long Branch
/0 Comments/in Jane's Walk, Long Branch, Newsletter/by Jaan PillThe following article by Lindsay Howe concerning two Long Branch Jane’s Walks in May 2013 appears in the March / April 2013 edition of The Lakeshore Villages Community Newspaper: Exploring the History of Long Branch Jane’s Walk 2013: May 4th and 5th By: Lindsay Howe This year there will be two Long Branch dates for […]
Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study (Trigger 2003)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillIn a previous blog post, I’ve noted that the final chapter of Climate Wars (2012) refers (pp. 182-83) to a discussion in Tristes Tropiques in which Claude Lévi-Strauss describes the institutions, morals, and customs that he’s spent a lifetime studying as “the transient efflorescence of a creation in relation to which they have no meaning, […]
Perception is reality does not apply to climate change
/3 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillUpdates When I say that perception is reality does not apply in the case of climate change I’m saying that reality in this case obtrudes – as contested to many other situations in life, where evidence and facts can readily be ignored in favour of varied preferred ways of seeing things. A book that comes […]
Built Heritage News – Issue No. 204 – November 28, 2012
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillFrom time to time, I like to post items from Built Heritage News. You can subscribe to this newsletter by visiting the website, which you can access through the link in the previous sentence. Click here for information about Built Heritage News. Click here for information about the Toronto branch of the Architectural Conservancy of […]
Instrumental reason drives climate change; and war is work that soldiers do
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Toronto/by Jaan PillUpdates A Feb. 20, 2014 CBC article is entitled: “Are we doomed? Elizabeth Kolbert explains why the world might be in the midst of a major mass extinction.” A July 24, 2014 New Yorker article is entitled: “Spare the rod, school the child.” The article notes that a causal chain links the health of ocean […]
Condominium development in Port Dalhousie heritage conservation district
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillI subscribe to an e-mail newsletter from the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. You can subscribe at the ACO website, which you can access through the link in the previous sentence. From time to time I like to post excerpts from such publications. The most recent edition of the ACO newsletter features the news items posted below. […]
Connectedness comes from a key minority of nodes: Communication power (2009) and The information (2011)
/0 Comments/in Long Branch/by Jaan PillCommunication power (2009) by Manuel Castells is concerned with empirical evidence and political communication theories. I was impressed when I encountered the description by Peter Burke (2005) of how Castells has conceptualized city life and cities in the context of postmodernity. Castells has remarked that ‘The city is everywhere and in everything,’ and that networks constitute […]