Trace One

Ha. very funny. Maybe it’s a medical center. Or a gym/bar for the people living in ths housing on the street. We liked to use ‘artists lofts’ as a possible flex use type space, when working on the City of charlottesville Zoning ord. Artist lofts – or magic wand stores..

Agree with the 15′, but I take this graphic much more diagramatically. When did the back building become a McDonalds?

I don’t mean to be argumentative (trying NOT to be!) but in my experience image #2 is fairly standardized in zoning ordinances I have worked with..I am sure it depends on what part of the country you are in..but zero lot line, parking in back, mixed use, is part of the ordinance of the City of Charlottesville since the nineties, and was definitely…[Read more]

three words, Nick – Parking Exempt Zone..

To me there is nothing in the second drawing, however, that makes it more ‘small scale’ – I don’t see that..The design with street wall and mixed use is just as easy to legislate through zoning..I found that the trouble CAN be that you can build it (and designate it mixed use) but that does not mean that…[Read more]

don’t forget the rake-patterned exposed hard dirt – it is certainly in the arts-and-crafts handiworks tradition..
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I agree, I like Grounded Design – very nice site! Here in Fresno, we just pattern the bare dirt with regular rake marks, it ends up looking sort of like the symbol for earth, really cracked me up when I moved here..They rake the dirt..hee hee..

hee! thanks Roland!

Man, I wish I had his job. He takes one position, and then completely contradicts himself by the end of the interview – end result – what has he said? Nothing, but it would fill a class room hour..Good grief..And “urban parks were old-fashioned from 1900 to 1980” – what? Really?
He always pisses me off anyway – why doesn’t an LA have this job, not…[Read more]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10268979.stm

Link to 18 ideas to plug pipe from BBC readers, plus reaction to each idea from a scientist.
The hydrates were methane, that is why the froze at that depth – see last idea in article….

Jonathon – no, and yes, and I agree.
Why is ‘environmentalism’ even called an ‘ism’ as though it is something you can choose not to be part of?

okay, okay, I apologize. Constructive and tactful..You got it..Snarky is just too much fun..I will save it for political blogs, where I am tame compared to most posters..
Trace out.

those ideas are as valid as anything else presented here..what is your point, Nick?

Christo calling – from the grave – told me to tell you that you are glue, he is rubber, etc….

Heard them both speak, at the Gates. I loved the Gates, really loved it..But they are charlatans, I truely beleive, I never liked anything else they did – and those photos really illustrate to me finally why I don’t like Christo – it is death. The plastic wrapping is death of a biotic system..The Gates were not.

How about having everyone in America shave their heads, expose the hair to growth hormone so it is alive, enfuse it all with oil-eating bacteria, send it down on dolphins to wrap around the blasting tragedy, to build up into a living reef of oil-bacteria-hair, as the inner colums of bacterio-phage hair dies, and the outer continues to grow..
We…[Read more]

First of all, hydrates was not just an excuse. Second, stick drawings are great, except when you listen to one second of science, for which you simultaneously seem to have no respect, as well as an overwhelming faith.

My solution is the no-build solution, for oil drilling.
So stick your stick drawings where They belong. Your attitude has been one…[Read more]

http://nyctheblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/bp-gives-up-admits-theyve-run-clean-out.html

here’s BP’s number..

of course you have accounted for the formation of hydrates? the first dome just floated away. And like I said, BP has an open call for any and all ideas – don’t post here, post there! At least you cant be faulted for self-confidence and simplicity.

Never did like Christo, except for the Gates, and now I understand why..

the beauty of a snuff film.