Articles and links

 

Placemaking

            Placemaking defined wiki

            Bruner/Loeb Forum

 

Community Groups and Orgs

Mexican War Streets Society News and Calendar

Central North side Neighborhood Council

North side Leadership Council

             Mattress Factory Calendar of events

             moxie DaDa

            Pittsburgh Partnertship for Neighborhood Development

 

Local Blogs, News, Articles and Forums

Eric Miller Blog  (Northside Urbanealator with interesting articles regarding Pittsburgh)

Urban Planet  (We still need Pittsburgh representation here)

Pittsburgh Dish  Local blog

Bruner/Loeb Forum

 

Mexican War Streets Mailing Lists and Message Boards

The following message boards and mailing lists can be subscribed to.

Message Boards & Forums:
    http://warfire.org/ message board coming soon

 
Mailing Lists:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MWSS-CNNC-Announce/

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BuenaVistaHeights/

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChatNorthside/

    http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=JoinMailingList&returnurl=%2Findex%2Ecfm%3Fevent%3DSupport

 

Grant organizations and funding ideas for Warfire projects

Sprout Fund www.sproutfund.org

Pittsburgh Council of the Arts http://www.pacouncilonthearts.org/

The Heinz Endowment http://www.heinz.org/index.asp?loc=home

The following local community groups should be contacted for seed money for your project.

Mexican War Streets Society News and Calendar

Central North side Neighborhood Council

North side Leadership Council

 

Mexican War Neighborhood Vision and New Urban Thinking

LEED and New Urbanism Neighborhood Development Rating System

New Urbanism and Pedestrianism defined wiki

The Neighborhood Congress

The Block Street and Building Congress

New Urbanism defined Congress

New Urbanism Book List

CarFree.com

 

Stuff

Wiki entry for The Mexican War Streets

Swimming Holes in PA

    Abrams Creek http://www.abramscreek.com/ Very Funky

        2007 Schedule of events http://www.abramscreek.com/events.html

        Has creek swimming, bonfire, sweat house and it is set back in West VA about

        Direct route 2 hours away- Map from Pitty to Abrams   

 

 

Urban Gardener 

Beleza Coffee House  (Rumor has it they will start a web site soon)

Gorilla Tourism in Pittsburgh

Gorilla Art Philosopher Critique by RISDs Donald Keefer

National Night Out 2006 Mexican War Streets photos

Urban Design Associates Reputable local Architecture and Design Firm

 

Articles

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Local Artists and Crafters   --UNDER CONSTRUCTION--

            Rob Weis

 

 

 

              (Interior Designer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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