Temporary housing. What do Carnival cruises, Ban and Libeskind all have in common? NYTimes article
- selma 9-06-2005 7:31 pm [add a comment]

We have something to learn from Europe.
(The Thames barrier was designed by Grimshaw - Eden Project, Waterloo Station etc - of course he is not credited)

- selma 9-06-2005 7:43 pm [add a comment]

i thought this comment on the wrong mindedness of ocean liners is good :

A cruise ship, said Roberta Cohen, a co-director of the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement at the Brookings Institution in Washington, "is not a return to normalcy - it's some sort of 'first world' fantasy idea."

I just did a quick skim, but when I hear the words cruise ship I think disease vectors.
- tom moody 9-06-2005 7:58 pm [add a comment]

just dont let the legionnaires sneeze on you.
- bill 9-06-2005 8:00 pm [add a comment]

They are also breading ground for disease.

Remember when they wanted to put all NYC AIDS patients on a boat on the river? Stick them out there so we don't have to deal with it. Terrible.
- selma 9-06-2005 8:00 pm [add a comment]

comment overlap.
- selma 9-06-2005 8:01 pm [add a comment]

also, remember the prison barges here in ny?
- bill 9-06-2005 8:03 pm [add a comment]

The Dutch went through some terrible floods, including a loss of 1800 people in 1953. Their protection systems are now designed for a 10,000 year event. The New Orleans levees were designed for a 100 year event.
- mark 9-08-2005 5:07 am [add a comment]

enter the fat cats


- bill 9-08-2005 7:27 pm [add a comment]