It’s official: I’m attending the Master of Community Planning program at the University of Maryland’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in the fall. It’s a two year master’s program in urban planning that requires an internship and studio project in addition to the coursework. I will also be a TA for the freshman introductory […]
Travel
After nearly four solid months of hardly leaving the District limits, I find myself on the verge of a flurry of travel: 4/28-4/30: Ann Arbor (fun) 4/30-5/5: Montgomery, Alabama (work) 5/27-5/29: Carmel, California (friend’s wedding) Of course, if you are in these places you have my number. I’m hoping to make it up to New […]
Trotskyites On the March
According to media reports, leaders of the Trotskyite organization the Revolutionary Workers League (RWL) have been active in Lansing, Michigan, organizing a counter-protest to a Nazi rally there over the weekend. The Lansing State Journal reported about 100 counter-protestors turned up at the peaceful April 22 rally. I found one local blogger, historymike, who posted […]
links for 2006-04-23
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 […]