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Life in the City
Past Columns
-by Sandra Simmons
Over the years, many aspects of living in the city have been explored. Enjoy reading the transformation of San Diego Downtown and the views of its residents.
2008
Does the price of oil make you boil?
How can we hope to achieve greatness just by being grateful?
If we build, will they stay?
When you stand and stare, why use your eyes?
Is there a happily ever after ending?
Is living Downtown WYSIWYG?
How can we hope to achieve greatness just by being grateful?
If we build, will they stay?
When you stand and stare, why use your eyes?
Is there a happily ever after ending?
Is living Downtown WYSIWYG?
2007
What
gifts will you give?
Are we planning the future or our demise?
Have we lost our way?
Will the future ever become the present?
Do we please some to receive nothing?
What kind of a community do we want?
Do we design by choice or by fate?
Is it time to pay the dime?
Isn’t every step an experience?
What is the word “of” our street?
What if we couldn’t scrape and reshape?
Isn’t life’s ripple both effect and affect?
Are we planning the future or our demise?
Have we lost our way?
Will the future ever become the present?
Do we please some to receive nothing?
What kind of a community do we want?
Do we design by choice or by fate?
Is it time to pay the dime?
Isn’t every step an experience?
What is the word “of” our street?
What if we couldn’t scrape and reshape?
Isn’t life’s ripple both effect and affect?
2006
To
do or not to do?
Will Downtowners accept the extraordinarily ordinary?
Shouldn’t we plan on changing the plans?
Why not forget the hot, and give a lot?
Do we build the building, or does it build us?
Isn’t making noise commanding noise?
Can we all just get along?
Is Catch-22 just a catchy phrase?
Is Downtown for Downtowners?
Is Downtown the ultimate stimulant?
Can one dancing star give birth to others?
Doesn’t every moment begin a new beginning?
Will Downtowners accept the extraordinarily ordinary?
Shouldn’t we plan on changing the plans?
Why not forget the hot, and give a lot?
Do we build the building, or does it build us?
Isn’t making noise commanding noise?
Can we all just get along?
Is Catch-22 just a catchy phrase?
Is Downtown for Downtowners?
Is Downtown the ultimate stimulant?
Can one dancing star give birth to others?
Doesn’t every moment begin a new beginning?
2005
Can
we raise our community more
quickly if we help to raise
our children?
Does it seem like I gleam when I dream?
Is the name the same or a game?
Do we attend to tend?
Can we meter our meters?
Would being in City Book make you somebody?
Is it one-way or is it another?
Is anyone planning on scanning all these plans?
Imagine what can come from imagination?
What will it be like to live in a green space in an urban place?
How many will take note and vote?
Who will celebrate the light with lights?
Does it seem like I gleam when I dream?
Is the name the same or a game?
Do we attend to tend?
Can we meter our meters?
Would being in City Book make you somebody?
Is it one-way or is it another?
Is anyone planning on scanning all these plans?
Imagine what can come from imagination?
What will it be like to live in a green space in an urban place?
How many will take note and vote?
Who will celebrate the light with lights?
2004
When
will the blast be in the past?
When the calculations are so complicated does it create more complications?
Can a lift give a lift?
When will we create magic?
Will the drivers driving on our streets drive us to be uncivil?
Are true girlfriends forever because they feel like home?
How soon will our city touch the bay?
Can our community become more than the sum of our neighborhoods?
When will the blast no longer blast me from my dreams?
Is there a way to rush without a rush?
Are we losing the quality in our quality of life?
What can you do?
When the calculations are so complicated does it create more complications?
Can a lift give a lift?
When will we create magic?
Will the drivers driving on our streets drive us to be uncivil?
Are true girlfriends forever because they feel like home?
How soon will our city touch the bay?
Can our community become more than the sum of our neighborhoods?
When will the blast no longer blast me from my dreams?
Is there a way to rush without a rush?
Are we losing the quality in our quality of life?
What can you do?
2003
Can
love bring us together?
How many degrees separate me from you?
When it comes to creating a community, how creative can the creative be?
If the “Circulator” was free, would cars be out of circulation?
When will conveniences become convenient?
Can we have distinguished yet united neighborhoods?
How can we make space for desirable spaces?
When is public land no longer public?
Can time truly be stopped?
When is the past past? When is it time to let go?
Can our voices be heard?
When does living well mean taking a chance?
Can a smile to a neighbor bring world peace?
Is beauty love at first sight, striking us the moment we behold it?
When does culture cultivate culture?
In a cosmopolitan city, what form does intimacy take?
Are we redefining life in a world-class city?
How many degrees separate me from you?
When it comes to creating a community, how creative can the creative be?
If the “Circulator” was free, would cars be out of circulation?
When will conveniences become convenient?
Can we have distinguished yet united neighborhoods?
How can we make space for desirable spaces?
When is public land no longer public?
Can time truly be stopped?
When is the past past? When is it time to let go?
Can our voices be heard?
When does living well mean taking a chance?
Can a smile to a neighbor bring world peace?
Is beauty love at first sight, striking us the moment we behold it?
When does culture cultivate culture?
In a cosmopolitan city, what form does intimacy take?
Are we redefining life in a world-class city?