No fair. You can not read the entire article here because Isabelle Lomholt and Adrian Welch just published Joel’s Column in Scotland to an audience of nearly one million hits a day from architects and the building community. Go to Scotland. Read Detroit Trendy City in Scotland where it was meant to be read first […]
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Past Wyoming AIA President today sent me a photograph taken yesterday of wildlife seen from her window at Nelson’s Architects
Photograph copyright 2015 by Nelson Architects. Permission to publish the view architect Colleen Nelson took yesterday from her office window .Colleen J. Nelson, AIA LEED-AP. NELSON ARCHITECTS, LLC 214 North Broadway P.O. Box 1244 Riverton, WY 82501 307.856.6155 p. nelsonarchitects@wyoming.com
Up to their Knees in Cranberries: A critical moment in my career
The date of this cranberry career-enhancing newsletter is 1974, but it might be yesterday and tomorrow. In October 1973, I returned East from San Francisco before there was a Silicon Valley. In San Francisco: I wrote television reviews for the Village Voice. I covered the World Series of rodeo for the Saturday Review. Before San […]
Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll entry on The Supremes
As anyone who has anything to do with me knows, I have become obsessed with the future of Detroit since early October. I think about Detroit all the time. I worry about its future. I reminisce about its past. I love Detroit. ++++ Shortly after I left the U.S. Department of Labor as a political […]
Significance of the Detroit Riots of 1967 for current efforts to rebuild Detroit
“Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.” The African-American community in Detroit has still not recovered from the cataclysmic Detroit Riots of 1967. Tanks rolled in the streets of a U.S. city as the phrase coined during the iconic Los Angeles Watts Riots two years previously resonated through the […]
Must watch video on Detroit’s “Renaissance”
“Part of Detroit’s problem is we put too much emphasis on manufacturing and plant-type jobs. We did not spend enough time thinking about how we might reinvent ourselves in terms of what is going to happen in the future. Our greatest resource is our people and what we produce. People are going to find out, […]
February 2015 motto
“Finance was soon a power of its own. It principal driving force was Bob McNamara, and [his] basic philosophy was: “Whatever the product men and the manufacturing men want, deny it. “Make them sweat and then make them present it again, and once again delay it as long as possible. If in the end it […]
January, 2015 Motto
[C]onsider the CNBC economy survey, showing that 53 percent of Americans are pessimistic about the current and future economic situation, while only 23 percent are optimistic. —Washington Week, January 2, 2015 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell Note 1. I am a contrarian. I believe economic and political conditions will improve over the next 10 years. Note 2. I believe […]