Back To The Future: Another Perspective

Thanks to Pop Up City for sending the most recent issue about Micro-living and Shared-living ....maybe ahead of its time in some places  

Pop-Up City Trip: The Future Of Urban Living

Link > http://popupcity.net/trip/  At the end of the year, Pop-Up City will organize an exclusive double city trip to London and Amsterdam to investigate the chances and pitfalls of micro-living and co-living. Costs of living space in cities are on the rise. For the first time in centuries, the average size of a person’s living space is decreasing. This trend is leading to new lifestyles and smaller forms of housing. Micro-living and co-living are the newest developments in urban living. How is this affecting the city? Is it a temporary or lasting trend? And in what way can we realize attractive forms of micro-living in the Netherlands? In October, Pop-Up City will organize an exclusive double city trip to London and Amsterdam, to elaborately discover the chances and pitfalls of micro-living and co-living. During this three-day city trip (two days in London, one in Amsterdam) we will visit a wide range of exemplar cases of micro-living and co-living. We will speak to initiators, designers, residents, experts, developers and community managers; exchange knowledge; and discuss current issues, trends and challenges. During the final day in Amsterdam we will share our findings during an expert meeting in collaboration with ARCAM. The city trip is part of our international research project on Micro-Metropolitan Living, that Pop-Up City has been conducting over the past year. Fifteen spots are available for people with a background in property development, government and policy, construction, and design. We aspire to form a mixed group people with a diverse set of backgrounds, who can also contribute to the program using their expertise. We welcome anyone from developers to initiators, investors, researchers, interior designers, architects and policy makers. Interested? Click here to become first in line for the city trip! We will let you know when we have updates on the program and when registration opens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How is this trend affecting the way we make cities? Join us for an exclusive dual city trip to London and Amsterdam in October 2017 to explore the future of urban living.

 

Public Notice & Comment Period | Draft 2017 Review |Water Quality Standards for Salinity | Colorado River System

Dear Interested Party: As a member-state of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum (Forum), the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) is seeking written public comments on the Forum's Draft “2017 Review, Water Quality Standards for Salinity, Colorado River System,” now through August 25, 2017. ADEQ will incorporate by reference the final Forum Review as part of our Triennial Review of Surface Water Quality Standards currently in progress.   Click to View Public Notice, Supporting Documents &Instructions for Submitting Comments > ADEQ encourages, values and thanks you for your input and participation in processes that protect and enhance the quality of Arizona's waters. About ADEQ Under the Environmental Quality Act of 1986, the Arizona State Legislature established the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality in 1987 as the state agency for protecting and enhancing public health and the environment of Arizona. For more information, visit http://www.azdeq.gov/.

What Happened To This? The New Mesa City Center

Not just this one, there were four of these proposals funded by taking $75,000 out of Parks & Recreation GO bond financing guaranteed by hitting-up sales tax increases for every TPT transaction made by residents. More financing from other interests never got beyond 30%.
Last year the powers-that-be inside City Hall [and private interests] sought to capitalize on another Pie-In-The-Sky proposal to transform downtown Mesa into a satellite campus for ASU that's devoured downtown Tempe - voters got smart and rejected another bogus plan that was unanimously approved by the entire Mesa City Council, schemed up the mayor and his friends with a $500,000+ privately-financed PR fiasco that turned into a major screw-up. 
Is the 8-story concrete and copper-clad 'seat of government' City Hall, now occupying a non-descript former bank building that went bust and bottomed-out, the "highest-and-best use" for this prime parcel of real estate in the New Urban DTMesa???? . . . let's get government off Main Street - it's NOT the center of public life . . . mebbe sell it for conversion to above market-rate condos for those deep-pocketed cohorts with aspirations for luxury housing????
The next Pie-In-The-Sky

Published on Sep 3, 2014

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Designed by Woods Bagot and Surface Design, Mesa Central is an engaging and dynamic urban park designed to catalyze the city’s downtown Main Street district and establish greater connectivity with surrounding neighborhoods. Inspired by nature and shaped by culture, it is a contemporary park that blends civic qualities appropriate for its role as the seat of city government with a variety of experiences and amenities for all ages, all year round. Through a mix of landscape features, new structures, strategic renovations to existing buildings, and parking options, Mesa Central’s plan offers the flexibility of phased implementation to achieve this vision for an active downtown destination within the City's project budget.

5 Cool Drones You Can Buy Now On Amazon in 2017

More eyes in the sky

Published on Jul 18, 2017

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5 Cool Drones You Can Buy Now On Amazon in 2017

Now, let’s talk about drones.
A drone, by definition, is an “unmanned aircraft or ship that can navigate autonomously, without human control and can possibly be guided remotely.”
Simply put, the drone is the wave of the future.

You see all those cool camera angles you see in movies? Those awesome aerial shots that give you bird’s eye views of beautiful, lush landscapes of snowy mountains and other cool surroundings?

How did you think they achieved those shots? By strapping a cameraman to a hang glider and hoping for the best?

No, no, getting that Oscar nod for Best Cinematography is not worth that type of risk!

Traditionally, camera people would ride in helicopters and use cranes to get those types of shots… but in using those methods, there are boundaries involved.

With drones… the possibilities are nearly endless.

Marble Helped Scholars Whitewash Ancient History

Polychrome over-painting has created a fiction we keep telling ourselves when "skin tones' from different people didn't meet the not-color-blind standards in the 18th & 19th centuries . . . controversy was created by research of an academic 

Published on Jul 18, 2017

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Polychromy in ancient statues and the whiteness of marble without paint has made both the Roman and Greek antiquity seem like they were all white.

This was done on purpose by scholars in the 18th and 19th century who purposefully whitewashed those periods and pointed to the whiteness of the marble as proof that those worlds, which had people from all "races" (the term wasn't really relevant back then) were also white. VICE News walks through the Art Institute with polychromy expert Sarah Bond.

Predicted Big Quakes, After-Shocks + Volcanic Eruptions Arrive

7.7 Earth Quake. Tsunami Advisory!

Published on Jul 17, 2017

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ASPRS Lawsuits Update Webinar 13 June 2017

Record-breaking 300 online to find out about this issue about refunds of contributions with an interest rate of 5%.
Judgment has not entered at this point-time although there's been a decision by the judge.
A status report is scheduled some time for mid-July that will affect 16,000 people and have a big budget impact on the finances of many cities here in Arizona
Published on Jun 27, 2017
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Duration: 2 hours