Urbanism

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Urbanism”

• Upcoming events at the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam: IABR

  
  Cluster — Authority: 414
  Upcoming at the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam which began on September 25 and runs through until January 2010 are a series of films, talks, tours and exhibits worth a mention. Screenings Sunday 29 November 2009 screening of documentary entitled Bogotá Change by the Danish filmmaker ...
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• Day in the Life of a Market Square in Thailand

  
  Bricoleurbanism — Authority: 92
  I was scrummaging around my hard drive and came across some scans I had done of film prints of Cambodia and Thailand from January 2004 but hadn’t cleaned up and catalogued. My digital camera had broken while at the Angkor temples in Cambodia but luckily I had my mini film camera as backup. While relaxing for a ...
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• Helsinki World Design Capitol 2012

  
  lewism — Authority: 411
  So Helsinki won the World Design Capitol 21012 competition today. There is already a website , twitter feed and facebook group to follow such being the norm nowadays. I’m happy but not that surprised that we won as the city is home to a vibrant if small design community and the changes in the city coming up over ...
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• 10 Black Friday Shopping Tips By Urban Ninjas

  
  WebUrbanist — Authority: 665
  Black Friday . . . are you preparing to battle the holiday shopping crowds? With the economy in a slouch, you had better be ready to fight for the best sales. You have to be fast and first into the store. You need amazing skills to navigate parked cars, blocked aisles, any obstacle that comes between you and that ...
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• Retrofitting The Suburbs Of Bardstown Road

  
  Broken Sidewalk — Authority: 501
  Bardstown Road at the Gene Snyder (via Lojic) Suburban Louisville is headed back to the drawing boards.  Metro Louisville is trying to figure out how to retrofit the suburban fringe of Jefferson County along the Gene Snyder Beltway to “create a more vibrant center where walking, bicycling and public ...
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• Smart Code Presentation @ UC Berkeley Today

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 117
  More info here [IMG: http://massengale.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bff5053ef012875ccb310970c-350wi]
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• New Pasila

  
  lewism — Authority: 411
  Cino Zucchi Architects have updated their masterplan for Pasila redevelopment. It would add up to forty story 160m high skyscrapers to the Helsinki skyline, at the moment the highest buildings are about 100m high. Pasila was planned and built as an expansion of the centre of Helsinki, infact as early as Eliel ...
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• Living With the Trinity Tonight on KERA

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 534
  The program, at 9 p.m., reviews the history of attempts to make something more than a smelly ditch out of the river. Bud Kennedy discusses here .
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• Journey of discovery

  
  Bicycle Diaries — Authority: 122
  just 6 miles from home A few weeks back, Roger Cohen wrote about The Big Apple s local peculiarities in his NYTimes op-ed column. He pointed out something that Ive also noticed about The Windy City . You only have to go a few blocks in any direction and the city completely changes both in terms ...
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• TED Talks: Architecture in the Future that Repairs Itself?

  
  Green Options — Authority: 148
  This post contains additional media. Click here to view the full post . In this short Technology and Entertainment Design Conference clip Rachel Armstrong says : “Scientists need to work outside their own areas of expertise to make new technologies that are pertinent to the 21st century and to ...
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• West Broad Village and the Commentary - Tripower, You Suck

  
  Melissa Savenko's Richmond Real Estate Review — Authority: 124
  So, Im reading the commentary on the article about the West Broad Village bailout by this new local private equity fund.  Someone, screen name "j-reb," posts the following, the first comment: I love the way they [the Developer] tried their darndest to make the project look like actual urban architecture.  Much ...
  5 days ago

• Saturday Satire

  
  Extraordinary Observations — Authority: 493
  I dont know what it is about satire that pokes fun of big-shot Washington lobbyists, but it just seems to easy to come up with good material. Thank You For Smoking , for example - hilarious. Now Streetsfilms has this short video featuring Veronica Moss, lobbyist for the Automobile User Trade Organization. My ...
  6 days ago

• Pests, Politics and the City

  
  airoots/eirut — Authority: 92
  Cities and diseases have an old relationship. The plague did more to improve basic sanitation in European and Asian cities than any other factor. We saw that after the Surat plague. Overnight, one of the most badly managed cities in garbage disposal transformed into a responsible urban settlement, thanks to some ...
  6 days ago

• Dutch Bicycles Revisited

  
  One-Way Street — Authority: 117
  One of the most popular posts Ive ever written was on Dutch bicycles. Since my initial post Ive talked to a number of people about Dutch bikes and urban bicycling in general. Clearly theres a huge interest in Dutch bikes in the US, even though Ive never actually seen someone riding one. In any case, Id like to post ...
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• HEBREWNOMICS — The Rich Boys

  
  ZSIDOZAS - The Jewish Problem — Authority: 123
  [NO PHOTO AVAILABLE] The Rich Boys are a group of international Jews affiliated with the global-finance Jewish Mafia and apparently working at least partly under Marc Rich’s direction. Per the above-linked article, they include parasitic Jews such as: Benjamin R. Pollner Ivan Glasenberg Patrick ...
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• A brief history of public art in Boston

  
  limeduck — Authority: 415
  A rainy day near Haymarket… Looks like it might spin.  Maybe the sign will help. Maybe not. PS It didn’t spin.
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• CCCB Call for Projects:The European Prize For Urban Public Space

  
  Cluster — Authority: 414
  The Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona opened the call for projects for the 6th edition ‘The European Prize For Urban Public Space’. The aim of the biennial competition is to recognize and encourage the recovery projects and defense of public space in our cities. Deadline for submissions is January 29 ...
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• Disney’s Epcot And The City Of The Future

  
  Broken Sidewalk — Authority: 501
  Take a look at Walt Disney’s vision for the city of the future, the Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow or Epcot.  ”No city of today will serve as the guide for the city of tomorrow,” serves as a guiding principle as varied ideas from shopping mall living, to freeways, to pedestrian safety, to high ...
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• The Next Wave of AR: Mobile Social Interaction Right Here, Right Now!

  
  UgoTrade — Authority: 395
  The Next Wave of AR: Mobile Social Interaction, Right Here, Right Now! View more presentations from Tish Shute .
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• FrontBurner Is All-Powerful, Fixes Downtown One Problem at a Time

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 534
  Earlier this month, I mused on the unsightly, maladjusted pavers in the sidewalk in front of the Meyerson. A formerly elected FrontBurnervian passes along this photo that shows the problem is now being remedied.
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