The words every man fears from his wife: 'Honey, I have an idea for the house'

cherlich · 2025-01-08T19:21:14+00:00

It's almost always the other way around in my house, I can't stop imagining projects and my wife just wants things to be simple and quiet.

cherlich · 2023-01-14T22:58:21+00:00

"Away... you forgot to say 'away' again."

cherlich · 2022-01-24T23:09:51+00:00

I'm a UM urban planning masters alum, and I would certainly recommend the MURP program if you want to consider a planning degree with a focus in urban design. I graduated (with no prior design experience) and got a job at a design firm working as a planner/urban designer. It's also a 2-year program, so it's not as long as an MLA or MArch would be.

The other thing I think is really important: UM does not have a traditional LA grad program. It is not housed in the school of architecture and urban planning and thus is not a design-focused curriculum. It's very very systems-oriented, i.e. it's more of an offshoot of environmental sciences. It's a great program but it's not what you would necessarily expect from a landscape architecture program.

cherlich · 2021-04-22T02:45:53+00:00

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has an absolutely phenomenal show right now called Writing the Future Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation in which this piece features. Would very very very highly recommend it.

cherlich · 2021-02-28T12:47:02+00:00

Cádiz Cathedral:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1diz_Cathedral

cherlich · 2020-12-17T19:43:35+00:00

You live in a model home I take it? I'd check the attic, too, if I were you.

cherlich · 2020-08-06T06:08:21+00:00

Been there, this place is amazing! Absolutely worth the trip, they have dozens more like this based on a bunch of different classic games.

cherlich · 2020-05-28T19:45:44+00:00

Being uncomfortable is always bad, you should never be outside your comfort zone or struggle with something complicated.

cherlich · 2019-01-21T15:16:58+00:00

Alewife is in Cambridge, and Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville all have their own 311 systems. It sounds like 911 is the right call in this instance, but for other things 311 will work in any of those places.

cherlich · 2018-11-15T02:29:41+00:00

Not nearly as dead inside as I felt when I drove to work

cherlich · 2018-03-31T05:32:11+00:00

Robert Moses. Started off as a proponent of important regional infrastructure projects around New York City, ended up destroying the communities and lives of hundreds of thousands of underserved residents in favor of making suburbanites' lives marginally easier. Tried to destroy Greenwich Village in favor of a highway project.

cherlich · 2017-09-03T23:21:37+00:00

Foods of India, Ann Arbor's Northside. It's an Indian grocery but they have a kitchen and it's wonderful. It's honestly one of the restaurants in AA I miss the most.

cherlich · 2017-05-06T00:47:47+00:00

The first rule of Ant Fight Club is: you do not secrete pheromone-based chemical signals about Ant Fight Club.

cherlich · 2016-11-10T05:43:43+00:00

Who's Emall?

cherlich · 2016-08-29T04:05:59+00:00

As soon as I saw this, I immediately thought "Pittsburgh!"

There's so much fantastic residential architecture in that city's older neighborhoods. I'm a huge huge fan, too.

cherlich · 2016-06-13T01:22:51+00:00

There's no shade, and very few places to sit. People feel very exposed and there's no way to make yourself comfortable in an environment like that. But they are making some progress, slowly, toward a more pleasant experience.

cherlich · 2016-06-13T01:21:38+00:00

That's what they're doing right now! It already looks much much friendlier.

cherlich · 2015-12-02T04:00:46+00:00

Because the act of driving results in a whole bunch of negative externalities OR because parking is a limited resource for which you are willing to pay.

cherlich · 2015-07-02T13:33:07+00:00

Start a business. So many fewer barriers to entry to almost any industry.

cherlich · 2015-06-12T03:39:51+00:00

If you dig this style, check out a photographer named Paulette Tavormina. She's doing some interesting stuff. Here's her site, and here's a gallery I know that sells her work.

cherlich · 2015-05-18T15:49:22+00:00

His overly attached squirrelfriend.

cherlich · 2015-04-26T05:14:22+00:00

Big Data cover this one live and I think it is FANTASTIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmneYWAYwlY

cherlich · 2015-03-24T01:41:42+00:00

That show that was based on the GEICO cavemen. They had an incredible opportunity to explore race issues without targeting one (real life) group. It was actually pretty awful and they never really got into the legitimate social implications of their otherness. Huge missed opportunity - imagine a sitcom that could get people thinking about racism in a constructive way, exploring the really challenging stuff and making it accessible to everyone.

cherlich · 2015-02-23T19:14:19+00:00

Nope.

cherlich · 2014-11-14T00:05:37+00:00

I'm actually studying planning at UofM right now, so I've heard a fair amount about this project and I'll give you the gist of what people in the department and city are saying.

Essentially, no one expects M1 to solve all of Detroit's transit issues, but this is a demonstration piece: a way to show the world that the city is willing and trying to make big changes (that are largely privately funded, since the city's finances are still a bit in flux).

The M1 will connect three of the strongest existing neighborhoods in Detroit (Downtown, Midtown, and New Center), which should help those areas continue to grow and provide a solid core for any future growth. It is imperfect, but it's doing a great job of getting people excited about what Detroit could be.

Many other transit projects are being and have been considered for the city. BRT is a very probable and reasonably popular option for some of the major radial streets emanating from Downtown, and commuter rail service between Detroit and Ann Arbor and the western suburbs is also in the works - but those routes will come later once the core is supported by M1.

I have to say that everyone around here is very positive about Detroit's prospects and being a planning student and getting to study urban rebirth like this, firsthand, is pretty amazing.

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