Sea Cliff – San Francisco, CA
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alley way slivers…/nature framed in privilege/…of postcard vistas.
City Planning Commissioner to Create Prize for Public Spaces
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http://foundation.uli.org/
Amanda M. Burden, chairwoman of the New York City Planning Commission, who was named the 2009 laureate of the Urban Land Institute’s J.C. Nichols Prize For Visionaries in Urban Development, announced Monday that she will donate the prize money she received to create an award that honors public open spaces.
The $100,000 prize will go back to the Urban Land Institute, a nonprofit research and education organization, to create the Global Award for Public Open Space. Making open spaces in streets, parks and public plazas “is the essence of city life and the measure of its success,” Ms. Burden said in an interview. “They’re important mixing chambers of all social classes.”
Spirit Rock LGBTQI Meditation Retreat – Marin, CA
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mind of the Buddha. / body of the Buddha, touch / the heart of Buddha.
At Home Anywhere
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http://www.overalthuis.eu/
A project by Henrik Jan Haarink and Esther Kokmeijer
A journey to the 27 countries of the European Union, visiting its inhabitants. Looking for the definition of ‘Home’ at the centre of gravity, the exact center, heart and navel of each country. In 2009, they have visited all people on all centres of gravity of all countries of the European Union. In May 2010 they will publish a book containing the best photographs, drawings and stories about the trip, the centres of gravity and the people they met.
Marin Headlands, CA
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picture postcard. film / set. a calming perfect / grassy knoll got lost.
The small house attached to the greenhouse was constructed out of elm trees peeled of their bark.
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http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/11/04/garden/20091105-tree-slideshow_index.html
ROALD GUNDERSEN, an architect who may revolutionize the building industry, shinnied up a slender white ash near his house here on a recent afternoon, hoisting himself higher and higher until the limber trunk began to bend slowly toward the forest floor….the read the rest of the article, click link above.
‘Sense of Place’ in Cyberspace
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/technology/internet/19foursquare.html?_r=2
A fast-growing social networking service called Foursquare is becoming the tool of choice. A combination of friend-finder, city guide and competitive bar game, Foursquare lets users “check in” with a cellphone at a bar, restaurant or art gallery. That alerts their friends to their current location so they can drop by and say hello.
“It’s planned serendipity,” said Emily Woolf, 24, a strategic planner living in Brooklyn who checks in on Foursquare when she wants to grab coffee or a drink with friends. “At this point, I don’t even bother texting or calling my friends. I just check Foursquare to see if they’re nearby and go meet them.”
Just seven months old with about 60,000 users so far, Foursquare is still getting off the ground — especially when compared with supersize services like Facebook and Twitter, which have millions of members. But that underground status is part of Foursquare’s appeal, its fans say. It is not yet cluttered with celebrities, nosy mothers-in-law or annoying co-workers…
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Platial enables anyone to find, create and use meaningful maps of Places that matter to them. - 
The Plazes website automatically detects your location and connects you to people and places nearby. - 
Photosynth combines overlapping photos from a place and explore the place in detail from different angles - 
World Wind 1.4 lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. -
FixMyStreet gets your street fixed. Enter your Great Britain postcode, stick a pin in the map, type in your problem and zoom!… off it goes to the council. - 
