Waterworld

Great white herons soar among stained highrises, landing on mudflats to compete with vultures for the endless decay of a city that is always helplessly resisting humidification and flooding. At the edge of a forest of such breadth and density, the bird life in Belem is more than North American cities, […]

January 28th, 2009 | Category: Book Reviews, General Musings, History, Nowtopia, Public Space, Travel report | Leave a comment

Crossing the Planet

Four planes and 24 hours in transit but I made it without much trouble”¦ Kicking myself that I didn’t have my camera ready when we were soaring over the Amazon from Manaus to Belem, especially towards the end when an incredible view at dusk opened up to the west. Multiple giant rivers and […]

January 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: General Musings, Travel report | 5 comments

The Webs We Weave

I’ve been working on other things, thus dropped the blog-ball a bit lately… one reason is I’ve actually been employed to write 3 blog posts a month over at sf.streetsblog.org, so that’ll get in the way of putting things here. (The Jane Martin piece was the first one.) I agreed that I might re-post some […]

January 19th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: General Musings, History, My Writings and Appearances, Nowtopia, Public Space, San Francisco news, Technology? | 2 comments
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