Speaking of decisions by the City with long term consequences (see previous post), there is an incredible post over on the SkyscraperPage forums showing the detailed 1968 Vancouver freeway proposals. I can't imagine anyone being sorry that lot didn't go ahead - it's a chilling glimpse of a nastier, uglier Vancouver that might have been.
Distributed Presence
Recently Read
- Robert M. Sapolksi: A Primate's Memoir
(****) Thomas King: Green Grass, Running Water
Hit and myth (****)Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis 2
(*****)Philip Roth: The Plot Against America
Alternative history, only respectable. (****)David Allen: Getting Things Done
Haven't gotten around to finishing it yet (***)Penelope Lively: Moon Tiger
Simply glittering, daaahling (***)Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient
Enough with the flowery prose, already. (***)Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
Knowing without knowing. (*****)
Recent Listening
Aurra: Anthology
Ohio Bass (****)Paul Weller: As is Now
Loving "Blink and you'll miss it" and "Roll on summer" (***)Stevie Wonder: A Time To Love
Please stop, please stop >sob< (*)Dwele: Some Kinda
(***)- Fym: Say No To Primate Research Labs
Say yes to Fym (****) Matthew Herbert: Plat Du Jour
Found Food Sounds (****)- Nils Petter Molvaer: Streamer
(*****) Nils Petter Molvaer: NP3
(****)Nikka Costa: can'tneverdidnothin'
Sixth sense pays off (****)Nikka Costa: Everybody Got Their Something
Unfairly slept on (****)
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