Indecision

I really like using paint chip colour sample as bookmarks.  They’re the best free bookmarks going. Paperclips too, although some people (JP) get all angsty when I do that.

It’s December, mid-December actually, and well above freezing. It just seems strange. The semester is over, and yet I have roughly half the work left to do I did in mid-November. A bit pathetic actually – the extent that graduate school allows one to procrastinate, self-doubt, dabble and miss. Oh, add stress in there too.

So, I am going to write the rest of an overdue paper, and explore just what Sharon Zukin and other urban scholars have to say about loft-living and add my own two cents about the potential for live-work apartments in urban areas as a housing type. An under-researched area of housing policy – some might even say not part of housing debates at all – and I decided to tackle it because it was neat.

Yeah, neat and messy and complicated and … I find myself half advocating gentrification, urban elitism, industrial displacement, adaptive re-use of buildings, Floridian creative class bullshit, and a quest for the authentic. I feel dirty.