Comments for Urban Codemakers http://urbancodemakers.net/blog Rezone the city through play Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Guilds in action with four days to go by chicken http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/guilds-in-action-with-four-days-to-go/#comment-143 chicken Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:05:00 +0000 http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/?p=1192#comment-143 Ah, now I understand the point of this project. On the symbol: So there was a diagram of the Grid by Russell in the Gazette? Interesting. On colophon: I can't quite decode "colophon..." from the Third Language. The best I can do is "Port Philip Colony". It doesn't quite work. I would have expected Port Phillip Association (or indeed NSW Government) in any event. I'll have to wander down to the State Library sometime to look at the old Gazettes. Ah, now I understand the point of this project.

On the symbol: So there was a diagram of the Grid by Russell in the Gazette? Interesting.

On colophon: I can’t quite decode “colophon…” from the Third Language. The best I can do is “Port Philip Colony”. It doesn’t quite work. I would have expected Port Phillip Association (or indeed NSW Government) in any event. I’ll have to wander down to the State Library sometime to look at the old Gazettes.

]]> Comment on In search of the Gelded Third Ho by In Honour of Robert Russell, Ludean Architect of Melbourne « Master Codemaker http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/183/#comment-142 In Honour of Robert Russell, Ludean Architect of Melbourne « Master Codemaker Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:40:33 +0000 http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/?p=183#comment-142 [...] For over 170 years Melbourne’s collective memory of its origins has complacently believed that Robert Hoddle, who gave his name to the eponymous “Hoddle Grid” that defines the city, was the designer of the city. Recent tagging in the environs of the State Library of Victoria now reveals, once and for all, that it was indeed Robert Russell, whose inaugural design for the City of Melbourne preceded Hoddle’s blatantly plagiarized version by at least one year. This controversy is well known within civic, historical and popular knowledge of Melbourne and its cartographic origins. However it is Hoddle the usurper whose name still defines the city. The MasterCodemaker has gestured to this ancient grudge in a number of earlier posts (most notably In Search of the Gelded Third Ho). [...] [...] For over 170 years Melbourne’s collective memory of its origins has complacently believed that Robert Hoddle, who gave his name to the eponymous “Hoddle Grid” that defines the city, was the designer of the city. Recent tagging in the environs of the State Library of Victoria now reveals, once and for all, that it was indeed Robert Russell, whose inaugural design for the City of Melbourne preceded Hoddle’s blatantly plagiarized version by at least one year. This controversy is well known within civic, historical and popular knowledge of Melbourne and its cartographic origins. However it is Hoddle the usurper whose name still defines the city. The MasterCodemaker has gestured to this ancient grudge in a number of earlier posts (most notably In Search of the Gelded Third Ho). [...]

]]> Comment on Players revolt! by In Honour of Robert Russell, Ludean Architect of Melbourne « Master Codemaker http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/players-revolt/#comment-141 In Honour of Robert Russell, Ludean Architect of Melbourne « Master Codemaker Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:27:18 +0000 http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/?p=379#comment-141 [...] Robert Russell, whose inaugural design for the City of Melbourne preceded Hoddle’s blatantly plagiarized version by at least one year. This controversy is well known within civic, historical and popular [...] [...] Robert Russell, whose inaugural design for the City of Melbourne preceded Hoddle’s blatantly plagiarized version by at least one year. This controversy is well known within civic, historical and popular [...]

]]> Comment on Leaderboard by Codemakers win // Urbanists crack the code | Urban Codemakers http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/leaderboard/#comment-140 Codemakers win // Urbanists crack the code | Urban Codemakers Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:23:18 +0000 http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/#comment-140 [...] win for the Codemakers with 251 IDEOTAGs [...] [...] win for the Codemakers with 251 IDEOTAGs [...]

]]> Comment on Guilds in action with four days to go by master codemaker http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/guilds-in-action-with-four-days-to-go/#comment-139 master codemaker Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:01:09 +0000 http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/?p=1192#comment-139 Far from a superficial connection. The symbol in question is nothing less than an early Ludean rendering of the Gelded Third Ho; drafted, no less, by its original and, until today (see MasterCodemaker's final post) usurped designer, Rebus Stroller. You would be well served to seek out documents in the Public Records Office (from the Victorian Government Gazette) cited in the MasterCodemaker's Planning Reclamation Project application (see on Urban Codemakers blog) to witness how Rebus Stroller (aka Robert Russell) was indeed within his remit, under the imprimatur of the Colophon Rippley Ti, to design what came to be known as the "Hoddle Grid"-- though soon to be renamed the Russell Grid. Far from a superficial connection. The symbol in question is nothing less than an early Ludean rendering of the Gelded Third Ho; drafted, no less, by its original and, until today (see MasterCodemaker’s final post) usurped designer, Rebus Stroller.
You would be well served to seek out documents in the Public Records Office (from the Victorian Government Gazette) cited in the MasterCodemaker’s Planning Reclamation Project application (see on Urban Codemakers blog) to witness how Rebus Stroller (aka Robert Russell) was indeed within his remit, under the imprimatur of the Colophon Rippley Ti, to design what came to be known as the “Hoddle Grid”– though soon to be renamed the Russell Grid.

]]> Comment on Last IDEOTAGs hit the streets by urban codemakers http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/last-ideotags-hit-the-streets/#comment-138 urban codemakers Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:50:56 +0000 http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/?p=1228#comment-138 A legacy of the Urbanist's virus perhaps? Give it one more try... A legacy of the Urbanist’s virus perhaps? Give it one more try…

]]> Comment on Last IDEOTAGs hit the streets by frontman http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/last-ideotags-hit-the-streets/#comment-137 frontman Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:44:10 +0000 http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/?p=1228#comment-137 Still unable to claim those tags. System glitch continues to tell me I've reached the maximum number of points. Still unable to claim those tags. System glitch continues to tell me I’ve reached the maximum number of points.

]]> Comment on Last IDEOTAGs hit the streets by urban codemakers http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/last-ideotags-hit-the-streets/#comment-136 urban codemakers Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:32:03 +0000 http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/?p=1228#comment-136 Indeed chicken, however there may be another level the game beyond scoring points... Indeed chicken, however there may be another level the game beyond scoring points…

]]> Comment on Last IDEOTAGs hit the streets by Spanner http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/last-ideotags-hit-the-streets/#comment-135 Spanner Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:26:23 +0000 http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/?p=1228#comment-135 so with your points, the codemakers will win? so with your points, the codemakers will win?

]]> Comment on Last IDEOTAGs hit the streets by frontman http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/last-ideotags-hit-the-streets/#comment-134 frontman Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:27:25 +0000 http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/?p=1228#comment-134 That is true spanner but it will have some impact on the standing of the codemakers guild. That is true spanner but it will have some impact on the standing of the codemakers guild.

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