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“From 1975-1980 Activist Adam Purple Built a Circular Urban Garden in New York that ‘Knocked Down’ the Surrounding Buildings”

“…Over period of five years, Purple worked continuously to build a concentric garden that would eventually grow to 15,000 square feet. As nearby abandoned structures were torn down the garden continued to grow, a process he metaphorically likened to a garden that knocked down the buildings around it. He physically hauled bricks and building materials away from the site, and hauled in manure from the horses in Central Park.

“The Garden of Eden not only provided safe haven to the community, but also produced food in the form of corn, berries, tomatoes, and cucumbers. By the early 80s it had become a famous and beloved landmark in the Lower East Side.

“Unfortunately the city of New York never officially recognized Purple’s garden. While other local parks were clearly marked on official city maps, the Garden of Eden space was always labeled as ‘vacant’. Despite pleas from the community, the entire garden was razed with bulldozers in just 75 minutes on January 8, 1986 to make way for development.”

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/10/garden-of-eden/

“2015 is the year the old internet finally died”

“…Now, however, our articles increasingly seem to be individual insects trapped in someone else’s web. The internet has the exact opposite problem of every other medium. Instead of going from something for everybody to something for a large series of hyper-specialized niches, we’re navigating the choppy seas where once stood an archipelago and increasingly stands a continent. As TV and music and even publishing become the internet, the internet is becoming everything else — and it’s taking so much of what seemed to make it special with it.”

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/6/9099357/internet-dead-end

“These Cities Of The Future Would Be Built Entirely Of Bamboo –

Concrete and glass skyscrapers are so 20th century. “

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3052975/these-cities-of-the-future-would-be-built-entirely-of-bamboo

“Given the choice, the market almost never votes for the building, the monument or the civic development it ends up being so proud of a generation later.”

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/11/the-giant-pander.html

“There was a mailbox right outside my door, covered in graffiti. Some of these graffiti guys are amazing artists, but not this one. My neighbor and I must have called the city hot line fifty times. Nothing. So I started thinking, Ask not what your city—I’ll just buy a damn paintbrush, you know?”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/28/paint-job-facelift-dept-andrew-marantz

Awoke at 2 a m it’s now 3:46…

Tuesday November 3, 2015 / HiMY SYeD

Awoke at 2 a.m., it’s now 3:46 a.m. And I just figured out what the hell was bothering me about my negative experience at the end of the Artscape CSOC event yesterday.

The same observation I have about Habitat for Humanity locally here in Toronto, is essentially what my gut was warning me about the Artscape model.

Now I can go back to sleep…

“…As one last piece of evidence about the value of stories, there is a grand irony behind the saying that I started this blog post with: “The plural of anecdote is not data.” When Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Dictionary of Quotations investigated the origins of the truism, he found an interesting anecdote at its source.”

“Political scientist Raymond Wolfinger first used a variation of the common phrase in a graduate seminar at Stanford. A student in the class dismissed a simple factual statement as “a mere anecdote,” and Wolfinger snapped back, “The plural of anecdote is data.” Somewhere along the line, Wolfinger’s words got twisted into their reverse, and it has been repeated in that form ever since.”

“But of course, statistically speaking, Wolfinger’s the one who got the quotation wrong.”

http://www.nathanstorring.com/2015/05/06/how-stories-clarify-complexity/

“the self-destruction of diversity” = Gentrification

http://www.nathanstorring.com/2014/10/29/jane-jacobs-on-gentrification/

“It’s a difficult situation: We have an affordable housing crisis in the city right now, and the priority isn’t on social justice; it’s about this aesthetic economy.”

Deborah Leslie, a geographer professor at U of T, has studied the city’s transformation as manufacturing gave way to industries in line with the “creative city” agenda. Artists, she fears, end up as a symbolic salve to nefarious process. “While Artscape is doing important work, I think it is often being used to paper over and gather support for broader processes of gentrification and real estate development in the city,”

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2013/11/23/artscape_youngplace_school_is_now_in_session.html

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From 1975-1980 Activist Adam Purple Built a…

2015 is the year the old internet…

These Cities Of The Future Would Be…

Given the choice the market almost never…

“There was a mailbox right outside my door…

Awoke at 2 a m it’s now 3:46…

As one last piece of evidence about…

“the self destruction of diversity” = Gentrification

“It’s a difficult situation We have an affordable…