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  Anthropocentric Myopia

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Mar 14th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: hayley richardson, building, magazine, anthropocentric, anthropology, skyscrapers | 1

  “We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.” –Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac.

  It’s the time of year when I start fetishizing trees. As a current urbanite who’s spent years traipsing around Colorado and Maine, a three month barrage of concrete winter wreaks havoc upon my soul.  In my March imaginings, I’m standing on a wooded hilltop, caressed by a rogue leaf, warmed by the sun.  I’m awash in the kind of wonder I…

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  Suburban Skyscrapers, The Anti-McMansion Movement, Permalancers, More

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Dec 14th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: commentary, hayley richardson, headlines, boston, skyscrapers, jerusalem ghost towns, suburban skyscrapers, generation debt, youthful urban planners | 0

  Boston’s Youthful Urban Planners

  “When middle school students from Roslindale teamed up with architects from Boston’s Gund Partnership to brainstorm ways to improve the Jackson Square MBTA Station on the Orange Line, the architects got an earful.

  The program, sponsored by Citizen Schools Boston, was created to give minority and low-income students the knowledge that they have a voice in the development of their neighborhoods, and in particular, their T stations. Many of the students…

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