"...but anything that is touched by man, is transformed by man, is by its very nature, design".I was so easily disappointed, and I really didn't want to be. In fact, this was one of those rare occasions (similar to Episode One) where I went into a room expecting to like everything, or at the very least, the vast majority and instead felt worse for the experience. I enjoyed Dwell magazine when IDru McKeownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00296931924454239141noreply@blogger.com0

The post Forclosure Crisis Forum lunch yielded the most fitting of all cookie communiques I have ever received. It was so befitting the conversation that we were sure that someone with a typewriter was in the next room, eavesdropping and predicting.For those of you who can't squint it reads:"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get less than you settled for."...Cleveland.Oh dear Dru McKeownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00296931924454239141noreply@blogger.com0

To be completely fair and honest I did not attend Dr. Beatley's lecture at CMNH however I was included in the 2 hour workgroup which occurred before the lecture which was more of a Q&A session with Tim Beatley and others involved in the city. Luckily Erie Wire commented on one of my posts and directed me to a podcast of the lecture so I was able to at least listen to his presentation and Dru McKeownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00296931924454239141noreply@blogger.com0

cellphone photoLast Thursday at the Case Medical Library Douglas Farr gave a brief lecture on smartly planned neighborhoods. I typically don't like to use words such as "green" or "sustainable" as they impose an aura of misplaced and misleading marketing that devalues the true intent, instead I would like to offer that Mr. Farr presented case studies and experiments in smarter urban planning Dru McKeownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00296931924454239141noreply@blogger.com1

Green Urbanism: the Global Shift Towards Sustainable and Resilient CitiesFriday, November 13th, 2009Cleveland Museum of Natural History1 Wade Oval Drive University Circle Cleveland OH 44106-17677.30 pmDr. Timothy BeatleyCo-sponsored with the Cleveland Council on World Affairs Dr. Timothy Beatley of the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture at the Dru McKeownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00296931924454239141noreply@blogger.com2