Showing posts with label community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label community. Show all posts
Saturday, September 26, 2020

These post-COVID ideas for cities could be scaled down for Nawbany.

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It's a British publication, and in some ways these ideas are scaled for cities much larger than Nawbany.  At the same time, the guiding ...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

I Know I'm Not Wrong.

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Aaron "Urbanophile" Renn moved back to Indiana (Indianapolis) from New York City earlier this year . This column was published ...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Does New Albany "have what it takes to spring back" from the coronavirus?

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If you've lived in New Albany for any length of time and possess the ability to draw your conclusions from genuine reality, as oppose...
Monday, June 25, 2018

"Here are three steps that would make our cities work for people of all ages."

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Jeff "Swish" Gahan takes three down the middle of the plate -- and the bat never left his shoulder. Maybe it's time for s...
Thursday, May 03, 2018

In New Albany, do we really pay attention to what we claim to be paying attention to?

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Horbovetz's point is well-taken in the context of my own blogging experience. It has been only recently that posts about what I'd c...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

A business owner on the farmers market: "I do want what is best for my community."

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Katrina at Antiques Attic posted this comment earlier today at As the farmers market follies morph into farce, City Hall just stands there. ...
Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Park comparisons get worse: Breaking ground on an overpriced copy.

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Below is a Rundell Ernstberger Associates rendering of the soon to be Bicentennial Park in New Albany. I've been questioning design deci...
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Monday, October 08, 2012

Bicentennial Park, Part Two: "When did the public input process into this park's location, imagined functions, design, and construction occur?"

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Recently, when existing trees abruptly began falling, New Albanians became aware that we're in the process of building a $750,000 Bicent...

Bicentennial Park, Part One: "Whom Does Design Really Serve?"

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Professionals are against participation because it destroys the arcane privileges of specialization, unveils the professional secret, strips...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

News and Tribune editorial board swiftly embraces localism.

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Our newspaper expedites, and offers the major themes of cracked bridge as community building opportunity, not faux "disaster." OUR...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

A thought from a walk.

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Just in walking around town, I regularly encounter architects, builders, growers, craftspeople, brewers, urban planners, retailers, artists,...
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Friday, August 13, 2010

Voices from elsewhere?

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Neighborhood cornerstone: Ritter House needs a boost as tenants set up shop , by Chris Morris ( Tribune ). Hock hopes Saturday’s S. Ellen Jo...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

Elinor Ostrom: Sustainable commons, suckers, and diverse institutions.

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Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University recently won the Nobel Prize in Economics for good reason. City Council Member John Gonder wrote about h...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Still saying it: It's about community.

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I met Rory Turner in Bloomington when I was nineteen. He was working on a PhD and I was working on becoming a human being. He was and cont...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

The Fabric of Community

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Neighbor and fellow New Albany blogger, Ceece , aka Courtney Paris, recently encountered a couple of homeless men taking shelter under a dow...
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