I guess people forget that Microsoft started Slate, too. Hired a famous editor who moved to Seattle to run it.
Adam Rogers
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Theres no commercial activity in San Pablo Park because zoning maps only allow commercial activity where Key System trains used to be. So San Pablo and Sac St. Stupid? Very much so, yes.
American park concession policy drives me insane.
Here I am with my kid at the biggest park in Berkeley. There are hundreds of people here at birthday parties, playing tennis/basketball/frisbee, and running the dogs.
And yet the closest place to buy a coffee is a half mile walk.
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Elevators everywhere and no joke lots of streets raised to sidewalk level. There was a lot.
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The coldest cut of all
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I was traveling so…the guy who threw the sandwich didn’t have a trial, right? Just arbytration?
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send more trains
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The US environmental ideology is in part predicated on the idea that nature’s main purpose is for private encounters with the sublime. And that somehow a park in a city is natural and everything else is artificial and bad. It’s weird.
There is nothing natural about Golden Gate Park, Central Park, or most other urban parks.
The idea that commerce should be banned, lest it interrupt people’s quiet contemplation of nature, is just snobbery.
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there should be a coffee kiosk in every park of a certain size. they spell it "quiosque" in lisbon
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I think you should be able to buy a cup of coffee or a bite to eat in America’s urban parks, and that the refusal to allow this is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of what urban parks are, and what purpose they serve.
American park concession policy drives me insane.
Here I am with my kid at the biggest park in Berkeley. There are hundreds of people here at birthday parties, playing tennis/basketball/frisbee, and running the dogs.
And yet the closest place to buy a coffee is a half mile walk.
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(I take pictures of normal things too.)
