http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/07/09/my-point Comments On: My Point by Charles Mudede en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:30:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by chloe]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:39:09 -0700 The Stranger
There is a long tradition of writing about these vital places from people like Grady Clay and Robert Venturi. It's kind of the polar opposite of "New Urbanism", but, unlike New Urbanism, Edge Cities actually work, despite being impossibly dysfunctional; in fact, what we call "dysfunction" is really just a failure to accord with our preconceived notions; in reality, they function brilliantly, even with their crazy traffic jams and parking lots and toxic waste ground. They're actually closer in spirit to the chaotic cities of the Third World in a lot of ways.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:34:43 -0700 The Stranger
There was a thing in the paper the other day about the percentage of white students in the public schools, and the city of Seattle's percentage, unlike every other district in the region, went UP in the past five years. It's still white-minority (because so many of the white kids go to private schools, which should be illegal) but places like Kent, Renton, Skyway, White Center, etc. are going rapidly to large minority-majorities. This is partly because of gentrification but largely because of immigration. Immigrants can't afford Seattle. And the poorer black population of Seattle proper is selling to whites and getting out.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:44:46 -0700 The Stranger Posted by MattBriggs]]> Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:08:16 -0700 The Stranger Posted by B Strand]]> Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:31:25 -0700 The Stranger
" 'I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found that story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?' "(said Bernard)

-Woolf, The Waves
Posted by Jude Fawley]]> Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:21:40 -0700 The Stranger
Thank you for that.
I chuckled at the part where you suggest how every region sees itself as the center of its surroundings, an obvious truth that occasionally still needs pointing out.
Posted by Ackham]]> Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:20:33 -0700 The Stranger