Category: Design
13
May
The Realness of Birds
by Kerri Ana Provost
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If you spend enough time walking around downtown with eyes open — specifically, near the buildings that make up the Constitution Plaza mistake — you...
13
May
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Drive Less CT Climate Challenge: Week Four
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Bike West Hartford just wrapped up its #BikesMeanBusiness campaign, a four-day effort to teach local business owners that customers bike, walk, and use the bus...
07
Apr
Beyond Hartford: Yale Peabody Revisited
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The first time I visited the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven was shortly before they closed for their several year renovation project. It felt...
07
Apr
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Beyond Hartford: Glastonbury; or, GALLIVANTED THROUGH GLASTONBURY, GUTTED TO FIND NO GLAWACKUS: CRYPTID’S CORRIDOR NOT CATERED TO BY COACH
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The first documentation of the Glawackus (“Glastonbury” + “Wacky”) was on Friday, January 13, 1939, but from the coverage given by The Hartford Courant, it...
02
Apr
Safe Streets Connecticut: March 2024
by Kerri Ana Provost
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In March, seven pedestrians were killed by drivers in Connecticut; on April 1, 2024, seven World Central Kitchen workers delivering food in Gaza were killed...
18
Jan
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About People
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It doesn't matter if the system does not resonate with the haters who will never use it anyway.
14
Jan
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Before Daylight
by Kerri Ana Provost
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If you're about to comment on how we should daylight the Park River in downtown Hartford, stop yourself right now and take a deep breath....
31
Dec
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Out and In
by Kerri Ana Provost
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RETHINK BEACH ACCESS Look, we all know that certain towns that think too highly of themselves jack up parking lot fees at beaches, but fixating...
27
Dec
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Flower Street: The UnPratt
by Kerri Ana Provost
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A decade ago then-mayor Pedro Segarra stopped fighting to keep a quieter north-south road open for pedestrians and cyclists, and the barricades went up in...
08
Dec
Lessons from Mapping Death
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The story that this data tells is one about us.