Urblogs worth spending time with
Atlanta-based strategic planning firm Civic Strategies defines an Urblog as “those that are focused on a metro area, provide interesting commentary about local politics, culture or urban life and aren’t so ideological that they’re painful to read. So how much ideology is too much? Hey, it’s our list, so we get to decide.”
Civic Strategies recently added Urban Review St. Louis to their list of “urblogs worth spending time with.” Cool, thanks!
“Steve Patterson’s Urban Review – St Louis is a more biting version of Larry Felton Johnson’s Atlanta blog about urban design. Patterson is angry at a lot he sees around him, and he’s particularly steamed about the demolition of revered old buildings. Urban Review – St. Louis is part of a collection of blogs called the STL Syndicate (including Blog St. Louis and Commonspace). What does it say about St. Louis that it is nurturing the best urblogs in the country? Perhaps simply that somebody cares in River City.”
I’m quite flattered by the recognition. What is really flattering is how popular Urban Review St. Louis is becoming. On average I get about 90 hits per day – certainly no competition for the Post-Dispatch – but not bad for less than two months. A quick look at the stats for this week show many readers are coming from computers at City Hall (or within the St. Louis City government), East-West Gateway Council of Governments, Washington University, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Monsanto and yes – AG Edwards. Interesting, very interesting.
To the folks at Monsanto – I’m not going to critique your campus the way I did the AG Edwards campus. Why bother, it is so suburban it doesn’t warrant the effort. Enterprise’s headquarters, on the other hand, is not so suburban so it will be fair game. Perhaps I can decide who has the greener lawn – AG Edwards or Enterprise?
I hope the powers that be at City Hall and East-West Gateway continue reading, maybe they’ll learn something about urbanity, the folly of the grandiose, and the details that make city life great.
– Steve
Congrats Steve! Let’s hope the folks in City Hall are ACTIVELY reading your blog (people this means checking out the links, picking up that copy of “Death and Life”, physically going and looking at the examples detailed here, etc.) because if they really utilize your excellent blog we just may get somewhere with good design in this city of possibility!
I’ve linked to your blog on my plug page and mentioned you in one of my recent posts. I find myself visiting here everyday. Not only is the passion of what you see in StL appealing, but helping to draw needed attention to what StL could be will benefit everyone in the city. Keep it up and congrats!
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