minimum wages

You can’t fault business people for making a profit. However if you are a billionaire, how do you get the nerve to tell workers they should work for $2 a day. Apparently in Australia, mining tycoons think their countrymen should be like African workers who are...

Urban Rest Stop

It is a great thing to see a community come together to support those who can’t do for the themselves. One of the great examples of this is Seattle’s Urban Rest Stop. The idea came about in 1990 after a survey found that Seattle had almost no public rest...

NCARB stats

In July NCARB* released a new publication, NCARB By The Numbers, which “offers an inside look at the data behind the architectural profession.” For anyone interested in the state of the profession, it provides insight on who is getting licensed, why people...

Communities need all types of people to survive. It’s good to see someone in Richmond championing that.

2013 Rose Fellow Apps

The vehicle that got me out to San Francisco and knee deep in community design, the Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship, has just opened the new round for applications in Asheville, NC, New Mexico, Los Angeles and MIssissippi. Get details on the Rose Fellowship...