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How to read the streets of Long Branch: Urban Design Guidelines Pilot Project is now underway
/1 Comment/in Long Branch, Long Branch Character Guidelines, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillUpdate: A more complete and highly informative overview of the contents of the Feb. 7, 2017 Long Branch Urban Design Guidelines Draft Document is available at the website of Ward 6 Councillor Mark Grimes. We owe thanks to Councillor Grimes for the role that he and his office have played in the initiation and development […]
Jane Jacobs contributed strongly to 1960s and 1970s intellectual currents
/0 Comments/in Jane's Walk, MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI recently came across a book, The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs (2012), that positions Jane Jacobs as among the most influential thinkers who contributed to the intellectual currents of the 1960s and 1970s – “along,” as the book notes (p.2), “with Thomas Kuhn, Ian McHarg, Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan, John Rawls, to name a […]
Without positing a simple-minded connection, Not Hollywood (2013) argues that taste is linked to a particular class background
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI have previously posted several items about Not Hollywood (2013). This post discusses these and other posts. Toronto Public Library resources I came across Sherry B. Ortner’s work when I was reading The Hidden Life of Girls (2006), a linguistic anthropology study of cliques of popular girls in American schools. The author of the latter […]