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Says Danah Boyd, Leverage the Web’s Most Disturbing Content
Family Learning Center —
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Talking the Talk, Failing the Walk
The New Republic - the avenue Feed —
Authority: 125
Talk of bicycle infrastructure dominated last evening’s “ Cities, Cycling, and the Future of Getting Around ” forum last night at the Newseum. Heavily attended by members of the Washington Area Bicyclist Association , the event, sponsored by the National Association of City Transportation Officials and ...2 days ago -
The Igloo From Hell
Pittsburgh Arts - Digging Pitt —
Authority: 126
Im really sorry for not doing more local arts posts. There are lots of great things about Pittsburgh, great people, offbeat projects, some great neighborhoods, history etc.... which luckily now you can hear more about in places like Pop City, the City Paper, The Post Gazette and great new sites like Bittersweet ...3 days ago -
Rethinking LA
Slow Painting —
Authority: 420
The late urban planning legend Jane Jacobs was skeptical of Los Angeles because it violated one of her central tenets: that a city be made of vibrant neighborhoods linked by public transportation. Our lovely sprawl is stocked with colorful neighborhoods, such as the glamorous Strip and bustling Koreatown, but public ...4 days ago -
Some Tips On How To Destroy A City
Pittsburgh Arts - Digging Pitt —
Authority: 126
This was something I wrote two years ago on the Pittsburgh Metroblog which seems worth putting up again. It relates to a few future posts. One bunch of people who are likely to want to come to Pittsburgh are urban planners. This isn’t a complement; Pittsburgh is almost a lab experiment in poor government and bad ...4 days ago -
Jane Jacobs and London’s Old Street Area
Leapfroglog —
Authority: 415
I’ve been reading The Death and Life of Great American Cities at a leisurely pace since october or so. (A tempo that seems to suit the book fine. Jacobs makes me want to slow down and see .) I came across this passage during a session with the book this weekend and something about a recent visit to London ...1 week ago -
Lets Have A Janes Walk In Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Arts - Digging Pitt —
Authority: 126
Been visiting NYC again, going to museums and walking the streets and looking at the endlessly fascinating fabric of the city at ground level. Why people choose to live here and not there? why are some blocks crowded and others empty and dangerous? Its always interesting. I always want to kiss the ground (umm-- not ...2 weeks ago -
Witold Rybczynski On The Four Paradigms of American Cities
TreeHugger —
Authority: 653
Bettina B. Cenerelli, Trudeau Foundation Witold Rybczynski could be described as a public intellectual, a prolific writer of accessible books about houses, cities and urban design. He opened the Trudeau Foundations conference Cities and the Public Sphere: Rethinking the Urban Commons. with the remark that "one of ...3 weeks ago -
Crawl in Jane Jacobs’s Footsteps
Metropolis POV —
Authority: 490
Urban design–conscious New Yorkers looking for an excuse to drink--and, really, who isnt?--should be sure not to miss tomorrow nights delightful-sounding Jane Jacobs Pub Crawl , hosted by the Congress for New Urbanism . The CNUs president, John Norquist, and staffers from the organizations New York and New Jersey ...3 weeks ago -
Featured: Anthony Flint’s WRESTLING WITH MOSES [Vol. 2, #43]
The Englewood Review of Books —
Authority: 131
“The Transformative Love of a Place” A Review of Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City . By Anthony Flint. Reviewed by Brent Aldrich . Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on ...5 weeks ago
