Exhibit: “The Interstate in the District of Columbia” “An exhibit featuring historic and current photographs, maps, and documentation of the design and construction of the Interstate Highway System in the District” currently showing at Union Station. “For once in a public building in Washington, there is excellence throughout.” Kriston Capps writes about the main branch […]
links for 2006-04-21
Getting to work: a study in public transportation My friend Emily compares ways to get to work using different combinations of bus and rail.
links for 2006-04-19
Homes for an Inclusive City: A Comprehensive Housing Strategy for Washington, D. C. From Brookings Panorama of the Washington Post Newsroom From when the Pulitzer winners were announced.
‘Legitimate Attachment to Mutually Exclusive Reasons’
I found this Malcolm Gladwell article in the New Yorker on a book about reasons quite interesting. Is your reason a story, a convention, or a code? This part reminded me of some of the talk about Michigamua: When we say that two parties in a conflict are “talking past each other,” this is what […]
A Few Thoughts on Place Names
I’ve been thinking a lot about place names recently. First there is the persistence of names. There was one case I stumbled across at work: while researching an old factory in San Francisco I discovered that although now the site is the location of two apartment towers, the new buildings retain the name of the […]
links for 2006-04-18
The Washington Oculus: A Magic Roundabout Mike wants one of these in DC.
links for 2006-04-17
17 Students Staging Sit-In Are Arrested for Trespassing A sit-in protest over university pay at the University of Virginia. Sifry’s Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth Technorati CEO issues one of his regular reports about the blogosphere. The data is similar to his February 2006 report, except the tally […]