grad school, queens, surp, urban planning
I wasn’t expecting to plug my physical planning course via this site but today’s lecture brought forth some interesting media tidbits. The course is taught by the VP of the 7500 employee architectural firm HDR|Mill & Ross Architects, who has also apparently become somewhat of a minor celebrity in Kingston through is rather experimental house. [...]
30 Sep 2008 Bryan 0 comments
canada, grad school, Kingston, life, queens, surp
The Homecoming tradition is not much of a tradition in Canada…in fact, if one considers Wikipedia to be the all seeing, all knowing authority on anything and everything then there are only really two Canadian institutions that observe this phenomenon. Queen’s and Western…and I happen to find myself at one of them. Homecoming is a [...]
26 Sep 2008 Bryan 0 comments
grad school, surp, urban planning
Some new vocabulary I picked up courtesy of the very academic read that is Peter Hall’s Cities of Tomorrow. apologia – a formal defence or justification gordian knot – an excedingly complicated problem or deadlock acerbic – sour or bitter in taste doggerel – crudely or irregularly fashioned verse, often of a humorous or burlesque [...]
08 Sep 2008 Bryan 4 comments
grad school, queens, surp, urban planning
Initial impressions. The Good: – Good big basement suite with a private beach. – Well organized orientation and I’m slightly jealous of the undergrads who are going through a very entertaining Frosh experience….something that was totally absent at UVic when I did my first degree there. – Compact campus which is essentially adjacent to a [...]
04 Sep 2008 Bryan 2 comments
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