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resilient/sustainable urban planner extraordinaire, cyclist, dad/grandpa, CEQA guru for infrastructure, amateur genealogist, hotair balloonist

Modesto, California
Joined January 2008
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computers think using etchings in poisoned sand and measure time using vibrating crystals so if you were looking for magic you found it
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Are #Cities Organisms or Machines? bit.ly/11SZa8I It makes a big difference... is it better to nurture them or run them?
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Zoning and Land Use Daily is out! paper.li/michzoning/13025767… ▸ Top stories today via @BilzinSumberg @NatCapRegTPB @gosner
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Go see Tony at the Serrano Social Club for an awesome cup of Joe and a cool dude w/ great stories
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Getting our #nationalcoffeeday on at the Serrano Social Club in Modesto. This place & the people ROCK
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Un photo-reportage à vélo à Montréal bit.ly/phxpFu #QCeco
The Urbanism Daily is out! http://bit.ly/eIS2nl ▸ Top stories today via @iangjacobs @getherbackfast @musingurbanist @michaelseman @gosner
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Cities whose leaders are unable to conceive that life may change more by 2030 than it has since 1945 are in for an unpleasant ride.
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The #city Daily is out! http://bit.ly/dRhJdy ▸ Top stories today via @gosner @novachina @barack_on_blast @lillilbit @icelandtours
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Do we change our places to fit fire trucks or change the trucks to fit our places? Procrustes logic applied to place. http://bit.ly/eCAnR6
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Form-based codes encourage transit-rich, pedestrian oriented, mixed uses within a holistic public realm. #SmartCode
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The Urbanism Daily is out! http://bit.ly/gHXhuJ ▸ Top stories today via @adamparish @pps_placemaking @gosner @apa_planning @filmanwich
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The #cities Daily is out! http://bit.ly/h3lanD ▸ Top stories today by @thisbigcity @mrdataferret @themeholidays @crevilles @connectxnature
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RT @richard_florida: Should cities restrict growth in order to improve quality of life? http://econ.st/gh7fDK (via @TheEconomist)
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Help design the sustainable city of the future in @livingbuilding's Living City Design Competition: http://ow.ly/3DcP2. #preservation
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The greatest corrosive of civil virtue is cynicism that we can accomplish anything of great value together. Do not succumb to it.
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A New Metaphor: Urban Acupuncture?: This past weekend at the NC ASLA conference keynote speaker Paul F. Morris, FA... http://bit.ly/aRQXHc
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Our pattern of development costs more to maintain than it generates in wealth. That is a reality we have to face, one way or the other.
RT @ccoletta @jwalkersmith: How do we fool ourselves? Easy. We refuse to be specific. "Self-delusion requires vagueness." http://ow.ly/18Vxt
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RT @GOOD: What should we do with old movie theaters? Community lecture halls? Indoor aquaponic gardens?: http://su.pr/5aswbQ