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Where are the maps (and/or addresses) for the event locations?

Hi there! interesting changes to the site? what happened to all the info on all the projects and photographs too? this wiki is cool, i like it, sort of – can it support all the beauty the other website had too? thanks! charla

Hey there beautiful people! Not sure if it’s a Mac thing, but none of the subscriptions are working here... would love to get updates and read up on plans for VBC6, and sure hope I can get up there. Peace and love, Tony Novelli

I’d like to provide some feedback/hopefully constructive criticism to the views expressed on the Why City Repair page. While I respect the effort to look for ways to make the built environment encourage human interaction, rather than detract from it, I feel that focusing on gridded street networks is mistargeted energy. I would direct attention to the books Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs, and City Comforts, by David Sucher. The first is a classic; the second is new - together they are head and shoulders the best books available on the physical determinism of built form on human behavior and provide a pattern language for creating desirable human spaces. Neither of them include grid streets as a problem (and, in fact, Jacobs will argue that a finely-connected grid street network is one of the most important features of a human-oriented neighborhood). I understand and support the desire to look for ways that our building habits encourage interactions of cars rather than interactions of people, but would point out that most classic American urban neighborhoods that work well are grids or modified grids - the problems with urban street networks lie not in being grids, but in narrowing the sidewalks to make room for cars, cutting off sidewalk corners to optimize turning radii for vehicles, putting parking lots in front of shops, and not building sidewalks in the first place. My own background is in urban planning, with emphases on non-car transportation planning, community organizing, and real estate development, so I was happy to be pointed to this site, and hope my feedback will prove helpful.

-Murph. (murph at commonmonkeyflower dot net)

I just registered. Is the weekly digest automatically sent to everyone registered, or do I need to find a way to remind myself to check it?

Thanks