The Prevelence of Simplicity

When a friend suggested that my house may be a Sears kit home I went searching for the styles offered in 1915.  Nothing I’ve found indicates that my house is one of these, but I rediscovered the simplicity of affordable housing while paging through what I did find.
Most would agree that our lifestyles have changed [...]

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Design Exhibition

OSU’s Department of Design will host the Senior Exhibition at the newly opened OSU Urban Arts Space, located in the former Lazarus building – downtown Columbus.  Over 50 thesis projects from graduating students will be on display Tuesday June 3rd – Friday June 13th.
The show attracts corporate attention from around the US as industry leaders [...]

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Sit-n-Split

Living near enough to it to have a slight interest, I’ve casually followed the news on the 70/71 split.  I don’t use that portion of the freeways much at all, so I’ve been more interested in aesthetics than the usability.  The only portion of reconstruction that will affect me is problem of getting around the [...]

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Look What Happened

It would have been impossible to imagine this twenty-three years ago when first moved to Salt Lake City. At the time most of the city was boarded up and the streets were void of pedestrians. Two downtown shopping malls, one across the street from the other, struggled for business.

I lived downtown, two [...]

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Possible Win for Pedestrians

Here’s some refreshing news from the Columbus Dispatch.
A 2006 study by Ohio State University planning students found half-empty lots outside most developments, including some Polaris-area stores at noon on the day after Thanksgiving.
The proposal would lower the number of required parking spaces for all commercial developments by 25 percent.
Read the full article here.

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The Long Term Benefits

From the May 12th “Commentary” section of the Christian Science Monitor.
Sweden, of course, has done more than simply tax fossil fuel. It’s created bicycle lanes, encouraged “green” cars and buses, favored heat pumps over oil furnaces, put a toll on driving in Stockholm, and invested in renewable energies and recycling of waste heat, among other [...]

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Offer Your Assistance

WOSU Public Media is offering a special opportunity to help your neighbor prepare for the digital conversion that arrives on February 17, 2009.
We are asking Central Ohio residents who have no need of the converter box coupons to go ahead and request those coupons from the NTIA. We are collecting unused coupons and then purchasing [...]

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Hakamiemi

Nearly two years of work are coming to a close as I edit the last chapter of the book. Writing throughout the past two winters I’ve put together the story about twenty-five years of traveling to and from Finland. In doing so I’ve gone through my journals, photographs and newspaper clippings and with [...]

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