Monday, October 15, 2012

From Project for Public Spaces —
What Makes a Successful Place?

Great public spaces are where celebrations are held, social and economic exchanges take place, friends run into each other, and cultures mix. They are the “front porches” of our public institutions – libraries, field houses, neighborhood schools – where we interact with each other and government. When the spaces work well, they serve as a stage for our public lives.

What makes some places succeed while others fail? Read more: What Makes a Successful Place? | Project for Public Spaces
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Port Authority and Private Company
Propose 30 Year Nanaimo Boat Basin Plan

Pacific Northwest Marina Group (PNMG) propsal to work with the Nanaimo Port Authority to revitalize Nanaimo’s marina: Marina Nanaimo | Pacific Northwest Marina Group

My note to Mayor, Council:



Subject: Boat basin plan Date: 15 October, 2012  
To: mayor.council@nanaimo.ca 
Cc: GeneralManagers@nanaimo.ca 
Mayor Ruttan and Nanaimo City Councillors, 

Some thoughts in regards to the boat basin marina plan proposed by the Pacific Northwest Marine Group: The obvious: the waterfront walkway and marina add up to a truly successful public space by any standard anywhere in the country. The elements that contribute to this success are many and any plan that adds to the wonderfully dynamic diversity of uses would be welcome. By the same token, to eliminate any element from this alchemy would be potentially a serious mistake. Our terrific little city is not a theme park. If PNMG's plan can't maintain all the elements currently in place: full secure access for Protection Island residents and other locals; full secure access for tug boat operators and commercial fishers -- with affordable moorage rates guaranteed for the duration of the agreement -- you should not support the proposal IMO. 

Frank Murphy
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From Spacing Vancouver — Robson Square:
Visions for an Activated Centre


Excerpts from SpacingVancouver editing-contributor and local urban designer Brendan Hurley's Robson Street: Envisioning a Civic Core for Vancouver’s Downtown examining Robson Street from block, neighbourhood and downtown-wide scales and offering design interventions intended on treating the corridor through its public realm and development as a complete and active link that helps to define the civic nature and structure of the City’s core.

Read more: Robson Chronicles: Robson Square: Visions for an Activated Centre « Spacing Vancouver
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Sunday, October 14, 2012

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Saturday, October 13, 2012

After hosting dinner parties for strangers in their own apartment, the NYC Department of Health took notice and shut them down, but Tamy and Felipe decided to open…
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From Artdaily.org —
Decades of Miss Subways
Smiled on NYC Straphangers

AP Photo/Fiona Gardner

NEW YORK, NY.- It was an ad campaign conceived as eye candy to bring attention to other advertisements in New York's transit system. But the "Meet Miss Subways" beauty contest posters of pretty young New York women and their aspirations quickly evolved into a popular and even groundbreaking fixture that ran for 35 years, from 1941 to 1976. When photographer Fiona Gardner first learned about it she "immediately wanted to know what happened to all the women." She set out to find out...
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