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A whippoorwill
in WeblinksBlog URL: http://whippoorwill.typepad.com/ Description: Whippoorwill is from Northern Ontario Canada, soon to re-locate to Toronto. She has some of the best writing you'll find on the web. She often writes about place. You need to check her out.
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A Sense of Place: Finding a Somewhere to Call Home
Yesterday I tried out Google’s new blogsearch feature by plugging in "place" and one of the first sites that came up was Ronni Bennett’s blog, "A Sense of Place: Finding a Place to Call Home." In May she decided to start this blog to document her recent decision to leave New York City after 30-some…
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The Restroom
in WeblinksNancy M. alerted me to this unique blog, The Restroom: A journal of design oddities in public restrooms featured today in a Boston Herald article. In my mind, it has the charactersitcs of a fine place blog, combining the observation of places over time, close attention to ordinary experience, a concern for the implication of…
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Find The River
in WeblinksReflections on fishing, life, ideas, and the spirit by an angling fanatic.
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Walk with Me – a Stroll Thorugh LA
in WeblinksOn May 15th, the artist behind the project Walk with Me will set from her home in Echo Park on foot with the goal of walking all of LA before she returns. Along the way, she plans to document her explorations with a vblog. This made me think of my time with Sara and Brian…
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From the PPS Newsletter: Cars, Trucks Protest Against Placemaking
in WeblinksCars, Trucks Protest Against PlacemakingFearful of losing their long dominance of the streets, millions of autos stage massive park-ins in public spaces around the nation to protest pedestrians and alternative modes of transportation.This article came my way today via Shin-pei from the Project for Public Spaces. It would do The Onion proud.
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Wild Thoughts: An Online Journal of Environmental Writing
in WeblinksHank emailed to let me know about a new journal he and some of his colleagues put together this past month. Several of them are graduate students inthe University of Montana environmental writing. As they describe it, Wild Thoughts "provides high-quality nature-based art, poetry, photography, fiction, and essays from everywhere, to everyone online. We have…
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HawaiiStories
in WeblinksAbout Us.. Essentially, HawaiiStories is a a storytelling community, a gathering place where web-savvy islanders and islanders-at-heart share their thoughts — be they random epiphanies, poignant observations, anecdotes, rants, questions, lyrics, poems, or anything else, really. Hawai`i is what ties the people together, but the things they share cross the whole spectrum of everyday life.…