On the north west corner, the spans crossing in two directions rest, at their ends, on a kind of table, or highly articulated bridge support.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
vales of tempe
In an earlier post I wrote about a cafe in The Vales of Tempe. The proper way to view these posts is to click on the April link, which will display all the April posts in one window, and then scroll down to "Life of an Urbanist", Friday, April 9, 2010, 9:07am.Tuesday, April 13, 2010
site plan
maple ash bridge garden pedestrian environment
this is the map from the previous post populated with existing buildings and three spans of pedestrian connector environment, drawn in Paint
this is the map from the previous post populated with existing buildings and three spans of pedestrian connector environment, drawn in Paint
this may sound like fantasy but ...
I am working to document some of these plans in detail
using the sketchbook medium
using the sketchbook medium
studentsofurbanism goals
1 build
1b build at arcosanti
1c build in cities everywhere
1d build everywhere
2 plan
2a plan for arcosanti
2b plan for tempe
2c plan for arizona
2d plan everywhere
3 create economies
create eco market network
create coffee house urbanism network
create micro-industy network
create micro-agriculture network
create micro-industry hospitality network
create e-shopping network
create invest in the future financial services network
create planning network web2.0 environment
create forest products network
create structure network construction system
create future media publishing network
create human mobility studies task force
this may sound like fantasy but ...
1b build at arcosanti
1c build in cities everywhere
1d build everywhere
2 plan
2a plan for arcosanti
2b plan for tempe
2c plan for arizona
2d plan everywhere
3 create economies
create eco market network
create coffee house urbanism network
create micro-industy network
create micro-agriculture network
create micro-industry hospitality network
create e-shopping network
create invest in the future financial services network
create planning network web2.0 environment
create forest products network
create structure network construction system
create future media publishing network
create human mobility studies task force
this may sound like fantasy but ...
Monday, April 12, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
message followup
I absolutely must follow up with additional questions for this amazing person. I'm fervently hoping I get the chance to do that.
long delayed reply to tim climis
Mr Climis,
Please excuse me for taking so long to thank you for your reply to my post on webdesign-l last may. I got confused about what to say, but I'm now making progress documenting the plans of which my question forms a part as a kind of entrepreneurial prospectus in web 2.0 (blog space).
I got booted from webdesign-l, whether by a technical glitch or my own stupidity, and haven't participated since pretty much that last post. I've just published the two posts at my recently starte blog, http://studentsofurbanism.blogspot.com/2010/04/core-javascript-function-for-cad.html, as a kind of preface to some posts I'm planning about CAD.
Thank you,
Tom Sunderland
Please excuse me for taking so long to thank you for your reply to my post on webdesign-l last may. I got confused about what to say, but I'm now making progress documenting the plans of which my question forms a part as a kind of entrepreneurial prospectus in web 2.0 (blog space).
I got booted from webdesign-l, whether by a technical glitch or my own stupidity, and haven't participated since pretty much that last post. I've just published the two posts at my recently starte blog, http://studentsofurbanism.blogspot.com/2010/04/core-javascript-function-for-cad.html, as a kind of preface to some posts I'm planning about CAD.
Thank you,
Tom Sunderland
core javascript function for cad
In order to innovate in infrastructure, we are going to use CAD, and CAD sucks. I am proposing better CAD, based on a system of complete methodolgical transparency, and implemented in JavaScript. Some of my research produced the result documented here: the actual core JavaScript function for CAD.
life of an urbanist
K asked, "how do you expect to get ceos interested in stuff about Arcosanti?"
"That's why I'm posting about a lot other stuff, too."
Then, I'm thinking about Endeavor, how they stopped answering my emails because they decided I'm crazy. How can they not be interested in a stream of ideas for business? There's got to be money to be made and lots of action in all of these ideas. But it's true, I've struggled to coherently articulate my whole plan. The idea that it's just an ongoing stream of ideas on a million different topics is baffling to people, but that may be my fault, tending to just describe fragments of it. Why so many different areas of interest? Because they all come together as a broad based economy. The idea is to gradually integrate commerce into neighborhoods, creating, in each walkable zone, a diverse self referent culture of activity.
On the micro scale, this means operating networks of small shops, galleries, b&bs, home services, fabrication studios, micro-warehousing, and reasearch and high tech publishing field stations, for example. On the macro scale it means Radical Urbanism, beginning with proposals for arcosanti, and now extending to proposals for Tempe, looking out ten to thirty years, with the general idea being planning for cities everywhere, in a similar manner. These proposals revolve around, or begin as, bridges, configured as intersection spanning elevated garden environments, highly articulated in plan so that light filters through them, hopping from one corner to the next, and then across the sreet and up the block to connect with a pedestrian zone there. At the other end, it's in a residential neighborhood, near numerous businesses and fully accessable by foot from 10,000 houses. This pedestrian connection will make downtown tempe completely accessable from the old tempe neighborhoods. Up in the bridge environment, people will be hanging out for the sheer pleasure of it, since it will be populated with magical gardens, small shops and offices, pocket parks, and criss-crossing paths. The structure will be thin-shell concrete supported on intricate beam matrices and beautiful variably formed sculptural pillars, with University boulevard flowing along underneath, and all surrounding architecture LEFT COMPLETELY INTACT.
In order to make the kind of construction just described practical, not just in an isolated instance by as a matter of course in and between cities everywhere, I'm innovating construction methods, manufactured architectural and engineering elements, an urbanistic block set for distribution everywhere, and in order to communicate, i'm innovating web technology and exploring socioeconomic modeling, because air travel is so fantastic, but so resource dependent, i'm innovating in fuel-economy systems for aircraft, and because it's not a complete view of the landcape to focus only on big, broad categories, I'm innovating in rechargeable batteries and solar power systems, tools and hardware, furniture, fashion, and, addressing a larger landscape, i'm making proposals in tourism, forest products, and farming.
I sort of glossed over the food products division. Think Martha Stewart Omnimedia with a bit of coop in the mix ... a good bit of it.
"What do you want me to do about all this?" K asked, quite annoyed.
"Kiyomi, I just want you to affirm it."
"Really?"
"Yes, when I feel like talking, that's when we can affirm all these things, ceos calling me to talk, all sort of really great assistance, meeting people every day, to talk about plans."
"Hm." !!
"That's why I'm posting about a lot other stuff, too."
Then, I'm thinking about Endeavor, how they stopped answering my emails because they decided I'm crazy. How can they not be interested in a stream of ideas for business? There's got to be money to be made and lots of action in all of these ideas. But it's true, I've struggled to coherently articulate my whole plan. The idea that it's just an ongoing stream of ideas on a million different topics is baffling to people, but that may be my fault, tending to just describe fragments of it. Why so many different areas of interest? Because they all come together as a broad based economy. The idea is to gradually integrate commerce into neighborhoods, creating, in each walkable zone, a diverse self referent culture of activity.
On the micro scale, this means operating networks of small shops, galleries, b&bs, home services, fabrication studios, micro-warehousing, and reasearch and high tech publishing field stations, for example. On the macro scale it means Radical Urbanism, beginning with proposals for arcosanti, and now extending to proposals for Tempe, looking out ten to thirty years, with the general idea being planning for cities everywhere, in a similar manner. These proposals revolve around, or begin as, bridges, configured as intersection spanning elevated garden environments, highly articulated in plan so that light filters through them, hopping from one corner to the next, and then across the sreet and up the block to connect with a pedestrian zone there. At the other end, it's in a residential neighborhood, near numerous businesses and fully accessable by foot from 10,000 houses. This pedestrian connection will make downtown tempe completely accessable from the old tempe neighborhoods. Up in the bridge environment, people will be hanging out for the sheer pleasure of it, since it will be populated with magical gardens, small shops and offices, pocket parks, and criss-crossing paths. The structure will be thin-shell concrete supported on intricate beam matrices and beautiful variably formed sculptural pillars, with University boulevard flowing along underneath, and all surrounding architecture LEFT COMPLETELY INTACT.
In order to make the kind of construction just described practical, not just in an isolated instance by as a matter of course in and between cities everywhere, I'm innovating construction methods, manufactured architectural and engineering elements, an urbanistic block set for distribution everywhere, and in order to communicate, i'm innovating web technology and exploring socioeconomic modeling, because air travel is so fantastic, but so resource dependent, i'm innovating in fuel-economy systems for aircraft, and because it's not a complete view of the landcape to focus only on big, broad categories, I'm innovating in rechargeable batteries and solar power systems, tools and hardware, furniture, fashion, and, addressing a larger landscape, i'm making proposals in tourism, forest products, and farming.
I sort of glossed over the food products division. Think Martha Stewart Omnimedia with a bit of coop in the mix ... a good bit of it.
"What do you want me to do about all this?" K asked, quite annoyed.
"Kiyomi, I just want you to affirm it."
"Really?"
"Yes, when I feel like talking, that's when we can affirm all these things, ceos calling me to talk, all sort of really great assistance, meeting people every day, to talk about plans."
"Hm." !!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
best of kioshiro
Night sky after rain fall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIBBbprepQg&feature=related
Transistor radio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCZSmXSD2OQ&feature=related
slow ballade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVbv0gEO70s&feature=related
Tamaran zaka （Hill I cannot stand)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqX1Bc7m1Cw
Monday, April 5, 2010
vpn services
My top priority is documenting cool stuff. My second priority is learning to blog from hot spots. After a good hour spent looking over Yahoo! search results for hot spot security topics, I've found this very cool looking site. A VPN is a Virtual Private Network. It encrypts your web surfing session, so no-one can intrude on what you're doing, for example I'm worried someone could hijack my Blogger interface. (The session is encrypted to and from the vpn servers, from whence it is transmitted to and from the web in decrypted form.)
I'm intrigued to find myself part of the world wide free speach movement, even though that's not my personal issue. This site is so cool looking I'm quite inclined to trust it. Of course, you might not agree that's a good reason to trust something ... and I too want to know a lot more ... which I suppose I'll be working on. And, another note, if you're a tourist in a foreign land that controls internet access for political reasons, please be very careful if you are thinking about using this kind of software. Don't get arrested!
Here's an article about this product, and another very cool looking site, to boot.
By the way, there are other free vpn services, and, seemingly, ones you pay for, too, and some of them even look really or sort of cool ...
Also by the way, what does this have to do with urbanism? It's about reporting on cities.
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