Category Archives: Reviews

Stone Walls

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Ralph

Stone walls. Driving down the roads of New England you see them companionably hugging the side of the road, or meandering away up a hill, or nestling between trees in the woods. Continue reading →

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Beautiful Nightmares: J Henry Fair’s “The Day After Tomorrow”

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Ralph

It is no coincidence that the first Earth Day took place only two years later. Brand’s “The Whole Earth Catalogue” would become a counterculture favorite and a cultural icon, cited by Steve Jobs as “Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along”. Continue reading →

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PUBLIC PARKS: The Key to Livable Communities by Alexander Garvin

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Ralph

Everything that everybody needs to know about the critical role of urban public parks. Continue reading →

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Cabinet

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Ralph

Here is a sampling of the off-beat stories that one finds in the quarterly, Brooklyn-based Cabinet magazine. The philosopher Slavoj Žižek has written, “Cabinet is my kind of magazine; ferociously intelligent, ridiculously funny, absurdly innovative, rapaciously curious. Continue reading →

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