Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/497755d168c5b90d24f4f28588568ca2/tumblr_mj0fy6rkoo1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Cover of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_charles/8519043008/" title="Pig Housing">Pig Housing</a> by David Sainsbury*, posted by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_charles/">Dr R Charles</a> on Flickr.</p> <p>* any <a href="http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/">relation</a>?</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/44630226856http://notes.husk.org/post/44630226856Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:18:37 +0000imageflickrpighousingbook coverdavid sainsburyblueprintweaning pen“<p>London’s chronic housing shortage has leaped past its unreliable transport as a threat to its future growth for the first time.</p> <p>Senior executives at the capital’s biggest companies rated “housing” above “transport” in a poll carried out by the business group the CBI.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em>Jonathan Prynn: <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/londons-housing-shortage-surpasses-transport-as-biggest-barrier-to-growth-8457520.html">London’s housing shortage surpasses transport as biggest barrier to growth</a> in the Evening Standard (indirectly <a href="http://tumblr.iamdanw.com/post/44021173997/">via</a>)</em>http://notes.husk.org/post/44024296592http://notes.husk.org/post/44024296592Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:06:00 +0000quotelondonbusinesshousing<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1wxfrMwTm1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>Housing in towers, a 1964 proposal by Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao for Harlem in upper Manhattan.</span></p> <p><span>(I’ve seen the proposal for a <a href="http://www.fabiofeminofantascience.org/RETROFUTURE/RETROFUTURE11.html">dome over Manhattan</a>, but these cooling-tower like structures are new to me.)</span></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/20417493532http://notes.husk.org/post/20417493532Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:30:33 +0100imagebuckminster fullershoji sadaonew york citytowerskyscraperhousingharlemmanhattan19641960sblack and whiteillustrationdiagram<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljilajHnsp1qz4vjro1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Heygate Estate. Photograph: Joshua Surtees. (from <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/gallery/2010/mar/26/elephant-castle-housing-estate-heygate-redevelopment#/?picture=360719661&index=3">The last days of Elephant and Castle’s 1970s housing project</a> at the Guardian.)</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/5356663418http://notes.husk.org/post/5356663418Tue, 10 May 2011 09:45:05 +0100imagelondonheygateheygate estatehousing<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/rdI4dCBFkpxerib0ocMQIN8yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/L65CiuZejEB/Views+Barbican+Estate+40th+Anniversary/6xs1p0wN4GY">Views From The Barbican Estate On Its 40th Anniversary</a>: Golden Lane. By Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Europe.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/142022092http://notes.husk.org/post/142022092Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:42:20 +0100londonbarbicangolden laneestatehousingtower<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/rdI4dCBFklb1qzagmEXcKvyDo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“A drawing gives an overhead view of Robin Hood Gardens”- taken from the New York Times piece, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/arts/design/19robi.html?_r=1&ref=designs">Rethinking Postwar Design at Robin Hood Garden in London</a>.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/88330538http://notes.husk.org/post/88330538Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:28:00 +0000imagelondonrobin hood gardensarchitecturedrawinghousing