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posted on
September 15th, 2009
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In The End

I've decided to stop blogging. I started this blog because I was reading city planning books and wanted a place to formulate my thoughts as they applied to the town I love. I also wanted to shine ...

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posted on
July 13th, 2009
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One of the nice things about living in a ghetto neighborhood is that you're constantly being told what to do by billboards. Drive through the poorer parts of Oakland and you'll get great instructi ...

posted on
June 29th, 2009
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Things I Learned Reading "722 Miles"

I went to the third planning meeting for the Estuary on June 18th. It was an "open house" style format, with little presentations set up on boards like in my 6th-grade science fair. I l ...

posted on
June 8th, 2009
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The High Cost of Cars: On-Site Parking

My last post seemed to be such a hot topic that I thought I would do a sequel, focusing on a different aspect of the high cost of cars in the city: the on-site parking lot.Just to be clear, I'm not ...

posted on
May 20th, 2009
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Running on Empty

A couple of gas stations near my house have closed in the past few months, victims of the economy and low gas prices.Even the graffiti writers can't resist rubbing it in:I say good riddance. You c ...

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posted on
May 5th, 2009
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On the Waterfront

I went to the second community meeting for the Estuary plan a couple of weeks ago. I saw some other bloggers there, but I think that nobody's really written about it because it was just kind of me ...

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posted on
April 8th, 2009
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Pictures of Dead Railroad Tracks

No book-length post from me this time. I just thought I'd share some pictures of the defunct railroad tracks littered throughout West Oakland.It doesn't make any sense, the millions of shipping co ...

posted on
March 25th, 2009
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Estuary Planning Workshop review

Monday night, at the urging of this post, I went to a planning meeting for the Estuary area of East Oakland. Since I'm new to this whole scene, I thought I would write about my impressions, in the ...

posted on
March 16th, 2009
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Best Laid Plans

V. Smoothe of A Better Oakland made a proposal recently about what to do with the Coliseum area. Basically, her idea was to put in hotels, a convention center, an entertainment complex, and other ...

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posted on
February 23rd, 2009
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Walk It Out

"As soon as the increase of population created a demand for wheeled traffic in Rome, the congestion became intolerable. One of Julius Caeser's first acts on seizing power was to ban wheeled t ...

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