The 2005 Cosmo Doogood's Urban Almanac is now on sale across North America and you can review our slate of "Living Urban Treasures," eight people who embody the spirit of the place where they live. You can also review our picks for "Urban Sanctuaries" and "Essential Places". We made our choices through a highly rigorous and secretive selection process. But every city and town in the land has its own Living Urban Treasures, Urban Sanctuaries, and Essential Places. We'd like to know yours. We promise we won't tell anyone (well, maybe just a few friends).
Click on the appropriate category to send us your suggestions, observations, or information.
- Living Urban Treasures
The Japanese honor individuals who are masters of their traditional arts as "living
national treasures." In the Urban Almanac, we pay tribute to those individuals who embody the spirit of their city and give us a sense of place, who embody the spirit of their city and give us a sense of place, like Anna Marie Carter, the Seed Lady of Watts in L.A ... Please send us your recommendations for a Living Urban Trasure in your city.
- Urban Sanctuaries
Urban Sanctuaries are places of peace and contemplation indoors or out where you can go to connect with spirit, nature, or simply yourself ... like Mount Royal in Montreal, Alfred Caldwell Lily Pond in Chicago, or the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. Send us your preferred location for respite, repose, or relaxation in your area.
- Essential Places
These are locations that embody the personality or character of a city, like Miami, Florida's Old Cutler Road on a moonlit night, 16th and Broadway in Sacramento, California, or Lagomarcino's in Moline, Illinois, a 100 year old soda fountain. What location in your town captures its most essential characteristics?
- Civilizing Ideas
Community Supported Agriculture, creek daylighting, green cities, National Night Out, Walkabout International, and more ... Are you involved in a group or activity that is particularly wonderful? Tell us about it.
- Urban Survival Strategies
How to make an impromptu toast, how to sound intelligent, how to deliver a baby in a taxi (don't try it if you can avoid it!), and more ... Do you have specific strategies for urban survival? Let us in on your secrets!
- Phenological Sightings
Did the first robin of the year arrive in March? Did the ice leave the lakes later than usual? Did the lilacs bloom two weeks earlier than last year? Tell us what's happening in the natural world in your region.
Please explain your reasons for your selections (or describe your urban survival strategy or phenological sightings) in approximately 200 words or less. Send them directly to nominate@cosmosurbanalmanac.com. We'll post your nominations for all to see, and feature our favorites in a future edition of Cosmo Doogood's Urban Almanac.
Thank you,
Still yours for a greener, kinder world,
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