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Henri’s ennui continues

By bill dawers On April 14, 2012 · in Odd & Random
"The white idiot writhes on his chair begging for cheeseburgers." That's just great. Open the post to see part one from a few years ago.
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Tom Vanderbilt in “Slate”: “How America can start walking again”

By bill dawers On April 14, 2012 · in Urban Form
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I’ve already posted a few Savannah-centric comments about as well as links to Traffic author Tom Vanderbilt’s 4-part series in Slate about walking in America. My posts are here, here, and here. Why do Americans walk less than most other people around the world? And what can we do [...]
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Walk Score: Slate series on pedestrian issues weighs validity of widely used metric

By bill dawers On April 13, 2012 · in Living Savannah, Urban Form
Savannah's average Walk Score is 47
Tom Vanderbilt, in the 3rd part of his excellent 4-part series on pedestrianism and walking in America, focuses on Walk Score, "the company that tracks the “walkability” of locations around the world."
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Tom Vanderbilt on pedestrian habits in part 2 of “Slate” series

By bill dawers On April 12, 2012 · in Urban Form
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From Tom Vanderbilt's Sidewalk Science; The peculiar habits of the pedestrian, explained:
[William "Holly"] Whyte, in his films of New York City street life, identified the street corner as an important factor in urban dynamics. Here was a zone of serendipity where people encountered one another beneath the blinking walk man, where they paused to chat before parting, where they formed small convivial islands just as pedestrian flow was surging most strongly.
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Kickstarter: crowd source funding having an impact in Savannah

By bill dawers On April 12, 2012 · in Arts & Culture, Living Savannah
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There were just three Savannah Kickstarter projects funded in 2010, 38 in 2011, and 27 so far in less than 4 months of 2012. One of those -- Clinton Edminster's Glitter+Gold -- opens at Little Beasts on Friday, April 13th from 6 to 9 p.m.
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Tom Vanderbilt, author of “Traffic”, on “The Crisis in American Walking”

By bill dawers On April 12, 2012 · in Living Savannah, Urban Form
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Slate is in the midst of publishing a four-part series by Tom Vanderbilt, author of the acclaimed book Traffic, about pedestrianism -- or just plain old walking -- in America. Vanderbilt's opening from part one -- The Crisis in American Walking; How we got off the pedestrian path -- might be especially interesting to readers here in Savannah [. . .]
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Savannah River deepening: Savannah Morning News coverage today is thorough

By bill dawers On April 12, 2012 · in Economics, Living Savannah
Click here to go to the news page that has multiple — and thorough — articles about yesterday’s authorization that the Savannah River channel be dredged to 47 feet, which is 5 feet deeper than it is now but a foot less than the original request. As I’ve noted in previous posts, there’s [...]
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Savannah River dredging approved for 47′, not 48′: will one foot matter?

By bill dawers On April 11, 2012 · in Economics, Living Savannah
The AJC and Charleston Post & Courier headlines about today's approval of Savannah River dredging focus on the one foot difference, which could reduce cargo by 800 containers per ship.
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Savannah River dredging: final report released by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

By bill dawers On April 11, 2012 · in Economics, Living Savannah
Here’s the entire press release this morning from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (with a couple of key issues in bold). I’ll have much more later. There’s sure to be much discussion about that final decision of 47 feet — that’s less than the 48 feet [...]
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Savannah River Landing: will Oglethorpe plan be part of its future?

By bill dawers On April 10, 2012 · in Living Savannah, Urban Form
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Savannah River Landing was intended as extension of the Oglethorpe Plan of 1733, but recent news casts doubt that we'll ever see the grid and squares replicated.
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Interested in advertising on this blog?

By bill dawers On April 9, 2012 · in Living Savannah
Do you own or manage a business -- one that I would have no occasion to write about in my Savannah Morning News columns -- that might benefit from advertising on this blog? If so, read on.
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Charleston Post & Courier on “Savannah’s dredging gamble”

By bill dawers On April 9, 2012 · in Economics, Living Savannah
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If you scroll through my recent posts, you can see links to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's 3-part series about the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP), a $650 million dredging that would make the Savannah River deeper to accommodate larger ships after the Panama Canal widening is complete. Despite myriad doubts raised in that 3-part series about the economic benefits, the Savannah River's depth after dredging, and the environmental impacts [...]
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Armstrong economist Nicholas Mangee on the myth of expansionary austerity

By bill dawers On April 9, 2012 · in Economics
When the deep recession hit and tax receipts plummeted, a steady chorus grew: "If we slash government spending, the private sector will explode with economic activity." The logic of that assumption was always pretty meager. How would widespread layoffs of teachers, public safety personnel, and road crews become an impetus for private sector activity?
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New videos from Oberhofer and Each Other — two bands from Savannah Stopover opening night

By bill dawers On April 9, 2012 · in Music
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On opening night of last month’s Savannah Stopover, the featured band was Oberhofer — they performed a great set under the live oaks in Telfair Square and then again considerably later at The Jinx. Since appearing in Savannah, they’ve appeared on Letterman and released their first full-length album, Time Capsules II. Now they’ve [...]
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