March 30, 2005
Brief: City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center
City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center (CLC), Supreme Court of the United States, 1985, (473 US 432).
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Brief: City of Edmonds v. Oxford House, Inc.
City of Edmonds v. Oxford House, Inc., Supreme Court of the United States, 1995, (514 US 725).
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March 28, 2005
Articles: Tribune on Central Station Decision
The Friday (3.18.05) after the city council voted on the West Oakland Central Station development:
Mini-city is on Track for Train Depot
March 24, 2005
Book: Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino pieces together a collection of passages describing individual cities, each written to achieve a momentous ending sentence as though the words in between these final sentences were unnecessary, but provided mental pauses between the impact of the denouements. Quotes are in the extended entry...
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March 23, 2005
Article: Vibrant Cities Missing One Thing - Children
This New York Times Article charts the decline of childhood populations in American cities as though the journalist had discovered something shockingly new.
Vibrant Cities Missing One Thing: Children
City policies for redevelopment favor construction of "affordable" and market rate housing units with one or two bedrooms. America's historical bias towards suburban single family homes (Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co., U.S. Supreme Court, 1926) finds reflection in a bias towards singles in cities.
Book: The History of the Siege of Lisbon
I'm currently wending my way through Saramago's works. In The History of the Siege of Lisbon, he weaves between the past and the present, blending the distinctions between history, historiography, and fiction through the narrative of a copy-editor. Quotes (rather long, due to the nature of the author's writing style) are in the extended entry...
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