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Copyright Notice Images and words © Marie Viljoen 2007 – 2025 Reasons to Dogear a Page We have art, Nietzsche said, so that we shall not be destroyed by the truth. Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero “The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things, and see there might be another…
Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, Resistance, and Renewal The Third International Conference of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS) University of California, Santa Barbara on 17–19 February 2022.Deadline for submissions: September 1Conference website: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/hlc-n/2022-conference/ Keynote speakers: Caroline Levine (Department of English, Cornell U)Sara Meerow (School of Geographical Science & Urban Planning, Arizona State…
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Saturday was dark and rainy, the sort of day that you spend indoors huddled up, moving slowly, drinking warm liquids, binging on movies or a series, and making stuff. Just the day before, I discovered the Craft in America documentary series, which is probably how I came to the conclusion that it was a good…
872: Erik Fabian on Sourdough Success Sourdough Tools and Tricks for Bakers. In This Podcast: In This Podcast: Greg interviews Erik Fabian, co-founder of Sour House, about his journey and the innovations his company brings to sourdough baking. Sour House, based in Asheville, creates tools for home bakers, including a countertop device called Goldie. Eric…
Defiant, dynamic and dangerously good fun, Emma Weinbren picks out the very best of the Spanish capital, from the Buen Retiro to the Bernabeu, with plenty to savour in between. Main Attractions Getting Here Hipsters Guide More Info Events & More Read This Hotels & Beds Watch This Food & Restaurants Listen To This Bars…
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes Your garden is a beautiful place that you have worked hard to create. The last thing you want are pests destroying your plants. But did you know that there are some bugs that can actually be beneficial for your garden? Here are a few of the most helpful bugs to help…
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In America’s streetgrid pattern of cities, our subway and metro systems tend follow the streets, whether under, over or sometimes in the streets. Last time we looked at future rail in Oakland, including a second transbay crossing, with a north-south alignment through downtown along Jackson Street. This time we turn the compass east-west. Will the…
The view looking down into the park from the entrance above. Updated February 2025 The model for its contemporary American cousin, The High Line, Paris’s Promenade Plantée––also known as the Coulée Verte or “Flowing Green”––was the world’s first and only elevated park before its New York relative spawned numerous followers, including Chicago’s Bloomingdale Trail, Philadelphia’s Reading Viaduct, Rotterdam’s…
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Summer in the Philippines can get extreme at times and this leads to premature bolting for some vegetable crops, like lettuce. Thankfully, local seed companies have developed slow-bolting variants that are heat resistant. These hybrid seeds adapt well in hot climates, like what we have here in Manila, so we can now enjoy our lettuce…
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img { border: 10px solid #FFFFFF; } uci is an R package to measure the centrality of cities and regions. The package implements the Urban Centrality Index (UCI) originally proposed by Pereira et al. (2013). UCI measures the extent to which the spatial organization of a city varies from extreme monocentric to extreme polycentric in…
