Comments on: Urban design and the changing economy http://traceurbanism.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/urban-design-and-the-economy/ intro to a graduate life Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:28:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Irving D. Zeiner http://traceurbanism.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/urban-design-and-the-economy/#comment-71 Irving D. Zeiner Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:28:43 +0000 http://traceurbanism.wordpress.com/?p=154#comment-71 I was struck by your applications of the quote from Michael Dobbins' Urban Design And People on "location and connectivity" to the realities of the present economic crisis AND more specifically, to your observation that people are drawn to work in locations where they have connectivity to unknown collaborators in cyberspace, but also where there are other people with whom they can have direct physical contact. I think this probably has to do with something quite basic in human nature as well as technological change. I am writing this in the Cimmeron Book Store in Ridgway, Colorado, pop. C.500. I left our off the grid cabin -- where we do now have light powered by those inexpensive garden path solar collectors, but no plumbing -- to come down here. And to document your case, I confess I am glad actually that we don't have sufficient power for a computer nor a signal to get online, so I have the excuse to come down the mountain to work here. About 20 years ago I began scheming toward the day I'd be able to transmit data via ham radio from there. Now that if I had an IPhone I could do it, I am putting off the IPhone. I just told Michael about coming upon your post and learned that you are working in Boston on a project in Augusta, that you were an excellent student and he is honored you quoted him. He is preparing a talk for the citizens of Telluride who along with those of Ridgway confront the problem of their sacred mountain views becoming urban sprawl. Cheers, Peggy [Powell Dobbins, aka Irving D. Zeiner] ps: as a rather cyber challenged septuagenarian, I'd love any advice or tip you have time to send re www.urbandesign.pro, which I created to promote Urban Design And People. I'm going now to click your "trackback" to see if that creates a link. I was struck by your applications of the quote from Michael Dobbins’ Urban Design And People on “location and connectivity” to the realities of the present economic crisis AND more specifically, to your observation that people are drawn to work in locations where they have connectivity to unknown collaborators in cyberspace, but also where there are other people with whom they can have direct physical contact. I think this probably has to do with something quite basic in human nature as well as technological change. I am writing this in the Cimmeron Book Store in Ridgway, Colorado, pop. C.500.
I left our off the grid cabin — where we do now have light powered by those inexpensive garden path solar collectors, but no plumbing — to come down here. And to document your case, I confess I am glad actually that we don’t have sufficient power for a computer nor a signal to get online, so I have the excuse to come down the mountain to work here. About 20 years ago I began scheming toward the day I’d be able to transmit data via ham radio from there. Now that if I had an IPhone I could do it, I am putting off the IPhone.

I just told Michael about coming upon your post and learned that you are working in Boston on a project in Augusta, that you were an excellent student and he is honored you quoted him. He is preparing a talk for the citizens of Telluride who along with those of Ridgway confront the problem of their sacred mountain views becoming urban sprawl.

Cheers,

Peggy [Powell Dobbins,
aka Irving D. Zeiner]

ps: as a rather cyber challenged septuagenarian, I’d love any advice or tip you have time to send re http://www.urbandesign.pro, which I created to promote Urban Design And People. I’m going now to click your “trackback” to see if that creates a link.

]]>