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April 27, 2014 by Kevin

Sunday in Athens

I’m in Atlanta this week for the annual American Planning Association (APA) national conference. I arrived early and had some spare time, so took a quick roadtrip to Athens. The city is well known as the home of bands like R.E.M. and The B-52s, and several long-time indie rock groups, so had been a place I’d long been curious about. So […]
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April 21, 2014 by Kevin

From the Archives: Fitchburg, Wisconsin

Through the years of the consulting business we compiled a lot of photos, so part of this site will be to provide a venue for pulling those out of the archives. Here is a handful of duotone photos produced for a proposal for Fitchburg, Wisconsin, taken in 2009:
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April 17, 2014 by Kevin

Almost home

For this week’s Throwback comes an old photo of a house in Scottsdale my family had put a deposit on, but then backed out of. It was 1979 and we were outgrowing our modest Hallcraft house, so we fixed our sights on a new subdivision a few miles north. The house had bedrooms for all of […]
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April 16, 2014 by Kevin

From the Archives: Napa, California

Through the years of the consulting business we compiled a lot of photos, so part of this site will be to provide a venue for pulling those out of the archives. Here is a handful of photos pulled from work on the Downtown Plan for the City of Napa, taken in 2009-2010:
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April 13, 2014 by Kevin

Sunday afternoon

This is how I’d like to be spending a sunny Sunday afternoon:
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April 12, 2014 by Kevin

Surreal Suburb: Fairmeadows in Palo Alto

In 2005 I created a small website called “Surreal Suburbs of the Bay Area.” I’d been inspired by a book I’d read by Paul Lisicky called Famous Builder in which he describes a curious, unfinished subdivision he had visited as a kid. It made me think about the intriguing subdivisions and neighborhoods I’d visited – not […]
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April 11, 2014 by Kevin

From the Archives: Delphi, Indiana

Through the years of the consulting business we compiled a lot of photos, so part of this site will be to provide a venue for pulling those out of the archives. Here we make a brief stop in Delphi, Indiana. We were working on a project in nearby Logansport, and we passed through Delphi a […]
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April 10, 2014 by Kevin

You can’t go home again… except now you can.

Going back home to check on things is easy with Google Earth at hand. In a box of old photos I came across recently there were a few photos of our old house back in Scottsdale. Based on the paint colors I’d date the photos to the late 70s or very early 80s. It was […]
Posted in Throwback Thursday · Tagged Hallcraft, Park Scottsdale ·

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April 8, 2014 by Kevin

Bliss

With Microsoft pulling the plug on support for the venerable Windows XP there have been a few stories on the iconic screen image that served as the backdrop to all those XP displays the world over. NPR had a radio segment, and PC world featured a story. The photographer took the photo from Highway 12 […]
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April 6, 2014 by Kevin

Re-blog

It’s been nearly a decade since I last featured a blog on this website. I’d registered the domain in 1999, but hadn’t really figured out what to do with it at first. Then one day listening to KFOG in the morning, they were interviewing someone who had been writing a web log, or “blog.” I […]
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