I’d seen this quilt, made by Carolyn Friedlander, before on the internet. Friedlander also happens to be the designer of the fabrics that compose the quilt, and this collection is inspired by her architecture background. Which is also fitting, since the whole thing is an homage to the home. Oh, can I say? It’s absolutely more [...]
I find cities and their role in modern global life entirely fascinating and extremely important, as I’ve written about many times. This is a really exciting story, reported in Business Insider: China is beginning a project, a giant eco-city that 80,000 people can live in, with greatly reduced water and electricity usage, less waste produced, [...]
When your city is built around water, and then you reach max capacity and your population is booming, what do you do? In Lagos, Nigeria, city planners are taking to the water. A new neighborhood beyond the water’s edge is a colorful community of floating homes, a floating school, floating businesses, and canoes getting people [...]
The 2012 Olympic Games begin this week in London. My adopted hometown of Atlanta hosted the Olympics in 1996, two years before my family even lived here. For as far away as those Centennial Olympic Games were from me at the time, living in Kingsford, Michigan, they may as well have been in any [...]
Two things I love to talk about have collided: National Geographic has published in their July 2012 issue a stunning 33-page spread on the crisis small languages face in a world run by business, the Internet, and a demand for global citizens to all be able to communicate across political and cultural boundaries. On my [...]
In 2008, the Knight Soul of the Community Project was created, by a partnership of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Gallup. I had not heard about their research until recently, but it relates closely to what I think about cityscapes, and how I feel about connections people have to their spaces, [...]
I want to share with you the meaning behind Parnell Peterson’s quilt panel, which is in Block 2744 of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. I have learned so much about Par through his sisters and my mom since I first visited his panel in January, and much of it shall remain in my unpublished writing and [...]