Kevin Gardiner

on the world wide web

Kevin Gardiner

August 2014 archives

Archives

August 31, 2014 by Kevin

Corn

Earlier this month I uploaded photos taken on a summer evening by our staff for the Comprehensive Plan in Logansport, Indiana. Here are a few more, taken the same evening, of corn fields outside town. Photos by Amber Eisan and Mishayla Binkerd. 
Posted in From the Archives ·

Archives

August 30, 2014 by Kevin

Attefallshus

Ever been to IKEA and seen those micro-home displays, where an entire household is fitted out in half the space of a two-car garage? Scandinavians are known for their skilled use of space, but apparently starting this past July Sweden has been allowing landowners to build tiny rental cottages in their gardens without need for planning permission. […]
Posted in In The News ·

Archives

August 21, 2014 by Kevin

From the Archives: Foster City Neighborhoods 1 & 2

In 2010-2011 we assisted the City of Foster City with the existing conditions analysis for the Land Use & Circulation Element of its General Plan. This involved lots of photos. Foster City is a master-planned “new town” founded in the 1960s on engineered landfill in the marshes of the San Francisco Bay. The city was named after […]
Posted in From the Archives · Tagged Foster City ·

Archives

August 17, 2014 by Kevin

Summer evening

In 2008-09 we assisted the City of Logansport, Indiana with a new Comprehensive Plan. One of the best decisions we made was to include two local college students from Logansport on our team, Amber and Mishayla. They helped us facilitate workshops, wrote and edited documents, and took lots and lots of photos. Over the course of the […]
Posted in From the Archives · Tagged Indiana, Logansport ·

Archives

August 14, 2014 by Kevin

Surreal Suburb: Westlake in Daly City

Next in line from the Surreal Suburbs archives. This was a series I put together back in 2005 featuring notable and oddball midcentury suburban communities in the Bay Area. Earlier I recapped the iconic Eichler Fairmeadows subdivision in Palo Alto; here we go back to Westlake in Daly City. Westlake in Daly City, California: Your […]
Posted in Surreal Suburbs · Tagged Daly City, Doelger, Westlake ·

Archives

August 14, 2014 by Kevin

You can’t go home again… except now you can, Part 2

Back in time for another Throwback Thursday #TBT flashback/flashforward. In the latest incarnation of Zillow sales histories are online, including photos and descriptions from past marketing listings. So I went back to the house that I spent the bulk of my childhood in, from Kindergarten through sophomore year in high school. Turns out it was most recently on the […]
Posted in Throwback Thursday · Tagged Hallcraft, Park Scottsdale ·

Archives

August 10, 2014 by Kevin

From the Archives: Downtown Napa #2

Back in May I posted some photos that were taken for our work on the Downtown Napa Specific Plan. There are lots more though – here’s another sampling.
Posted in From the Archives · Tagged Downtown, Napa ·

Recent Posts

  • Artlink Phoenix
  • Revisiting Phoenix
  • 1958 Hallcraft Homes advertising section: “This is Livin’!”
  • Scottsdale article in a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post
  • San Francisco Then and Now

Archives

  • April 2023
  • May 2021
  • November 2020
  • August 2020
  • February 2020
  • July 2019
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • August 2017
  • April 2017
  • January 2017
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • December 2015
  • October 2015
  • July 2015
  • March 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014

Categories

  • Diary
  • From the Archives
  • In The News
  • Surreal Suburbs
  • Throwback Thursday
  • Uncategorized

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

All content © 2025 by Kevin Gardiner. Base WordPress Theme by Graph Paper Press