We need everyone who believes that an Open Access Bridge is good for Cleveland and good for the region in creating a sustainable, healthy, and wealthy region for ALL to attend the Dec 11 NOACA Mtg.
An Open Access InnerBelt Bridge would enable cyclists and walkers and joggers a mainline connection between Tremont & Downtown. Open, multi-modal access on highway bridges is nothing new, and has in fact been implemented on 30 Bridges across the USA.
If you believe in this idea, we need you to vote with your feet and represent the interests of bicyclists and walkers (and the 35% of residents on either side of the bridge that don't own cars) and SHOW UP at Friday's (Dec 11) NOACA Board meeting @ 10 am, so that we can prove to the NOACA Board that there is a constituency in Cleveland that supports bicycling and walking as legitimate forms of transportation.
For more information on this issue and a list of more ways that you can help >www.greencitybluelake.org/innerbelt
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Friday, December 11, 2009
Come and show your Open Access Bridge support - NOACA meeting!
Monday, December 07, 2009
Malcolm Wells passes at 83
image taken from Shelter blog
Call it kooky and kitschy but Malcolm Wells thoughtful work continuous battled with the burden that most architects and designers succumb to, an attempt to mark the land in such a way as to claim it for humanity. Well's solutions weren't in any manner simplistic, nor did they rely heavily on futuristic technology to decrease mankind's burden on the careful ecological balance of existing and "living". Instead time honored traditions and understanding of the natural world (as well as the mechanics of buildings) were continuously questioned and explored in order to develop less energy intensive systems, ones that wouldn't scar the landscape but instead celebrate it.
In this age of "green roofs" and "vertical gardens" attempting to mix nature with buildings it is interesting to to note how the idea of the earth sheltered house, as explored in the 1970's is actually a contemporary take on ideas practiced by what is generally considered non-technology societies.
He will be missed.
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