Note: This blog has been modified since its original posting to correct an error concerning school board rezoning. Let’s connect … More
Category: Environment/urbanism
Blogs about the physical world around us..
Through an urban mirror
Listening, maybe it’s a result of living so long in a bucolic university city, but I’ve always been fascinated with … More
The vision thing
Pegeen Hanrahan was working in the county environmental protection office when Gainesville Regional Utilities bought the old Gainesville Gas Company. … More
Good enough for GNV?
In regard to the proposed redesigning of University Avenue: Ten years from now, maybe sooner, Gainesville will regret that we … More
Bagging the depredators
Apparently the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission may increase the bag limit on black tip sharks because…..they are “depredators.” … More
Lessons of the seashells
Here’s my interview with Gainesville author Cynthia Barnett as published in the Fall 2021 issue of Forum magazine, a publication … More
What? Again?
All roads may well lead to Rome. But when it comes to actually paying for them, roads mostly lead nowhere … More
Between the (head)lines
These days it doesn’t take too much reading between the lines to figure out that the human experiment has gone … More
The electrics are coming
The young lady zipped along 13th Street on a rental e-scooter, grocery bags precariously swinging from the steering handle. On … More
GNV’s dumbest stroad
Let’s talk about Gainesville’s dumbest stroad. A stroad being a car corridor that isn’t smart enough to be a street … More
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