Saving Place Alternatives Journal 28.3

Saving Place 28.3

Editorial: Our Place in the World This issue of Alternatives explores how the built environment – the physical structures making up our cities, towns and villages – influences our relationships with nature and our fellow human beings. The basic insight expressed in the various theme articles is that if we wish to improve these relationships, we will need to transform much of the modern built environment.

Editorial: Our Place in the World This issue of Alternatives explores how the built environment – the physical structures making up our cities, towns and villages – influences our relationships with nature and our fellow human beings. The basic insight expressed in the various theme articles is that if we wish to improve these relationships, we will need to transform much of the modern built environment. We will need to (re)construct places so that they reflect and reinforce the values of community and ecology rather than maximize the free flow of dollars, goods and automobiles, as has been the tendency throughout much of the past century. In other words, we have to go beyond the modernist agenda. … 

Editorial: Our Place in the World

the resurgence of Place – Don Alexander
Modernism is out and building places that fit with the environment and local aspirations is in.

Making Spaces Places –  Lauren McColl
Creative activities can make idle public spaces engaging centres of civis life. 

Road Rage – Laura Taylor 
More lanes and a bigger bridge wrecked the historic identity of a small Ontario settlement. 

Future Imperfect – Holly Pearson
The prospects for Seattle’s Belltown neighhourhood depend on how long its diversity and character can persist when there is money to be made high-rise luxury condos. 

Hear Birds, See Stars – Jeremy Lundholm
Most urban areas are overwhelmed by the noise and light of human sensory pollution.

On the Waterfront – Ingrid Stefanovic
Method for exploring people’s connection to the 350-ilometre Lake Ontario trail may help improve design and foster stewardship. 

Community Science – Anna Carr
Bringing together social and scientific goals, Western AUstalia’s Waterwatchers nurture both nature and neightbourhood. 

Learning to Ask – Lorne Peterson
An Aboriginal custom for respecting forests brings appreciation and understanding. 

Changing the World by Saving Place – Ned Jacobs
When Jane Jacobs and her neighbours defeated the urban renewal project that was threatening Greenwich Village.
they helped in spire a movement that preserved some of the most valued urban places in North America.

In the Burbs –  Nik Luka and Leo Trottler
It’s time to recognize that suburbia is a real place too. 

Knowing you Place – Kate Davies
Take a quiz to gauge your sense of place.

More Alternatives

Notes
Toxic computers
Honeymoon mine
Bangladeshi farmers
Genetic pollution

Political Science – Stephen Bocking
The faillings of Bjorn Lomborg’s Skeptical Environment.

Hot Green Websites – Kelly Loverock

Windmills at Sea – David Gallagher
Energy entrepreneurs are looking offshore for wind power. 

Local COntrol – Airin Stephens
CO-operation between local fishers and government scientists signals shift to greater community involvement in managing the Fundy fishery. 

The Route of the Problem – Tamara Levine and Greg Michalenko
Cloudforest defenders want proposed pipeline moved.

Citizens Can Previall – Franz Harmann
A personal perspective on how public moblization defeated the proposal to ship Toronto’s waste to an abandoned mine in northern Ontario. 

Reviews – David Rothernberg’s Suden Music
Rober F. Wollard & Aleck S.Ostry’s Ftal Consumption: Rethinking Sustainable Development
GASCD
This place on Earth 2002: Measuring What Matters
Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Letter
Vegetarian readers respond to Wayne Robert’s analysis of veggie dogma. 

Brain Mulch – Ryan Kennedy and Scott Mackay
Fueling up on chicken grease.