Urbanism

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• Lakeside House / NOW for Architecture and Urbanism

  
  ArchDaily — Authority: 641
  © Maija Luutonen Architects: NOW for Architecture and Urbanism / Tuomas Toivonen Location: Saimaa lake, Finland Client: Private Project area: 140 sqm Project year: 2009 Sketches: Nene Tsuboi Photographs: Maija Luutonen © Maija Luutonen The site is in Saimaa, the Finnish lake district. A ...
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• Baudelaire and the Decline of Experience

  
  One-Way Street — Authority: 116
  The second foundational figure of literary Modernism, along with Flaubert , was Charles Baudelaire. Both French writers were fascinated by urban experience. Flaubert incorporated it into his narrative form, while Baudelaire made urban experience the subject of his poetic practice. Baudelaire was a practicing ...
  15 hours ago

• The other sort of hacking: Baltimore’s ghost taxis

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 575
  Dovetailing neatly with yesterday’s article about innovative low-budget urban living in Detroit comes a piece on Baltimore’s “hacks”- illegal and unlicensed taxi services provided by anyone with a car to anyone in need of a budget ride across town [via MetaFilter ; image by Marcin Wichary ] . … a ...
  15 hours ago

• Intelligent Urban Thinking

  
  Extraordinary Observations — Authority: 512
  There are a lot of books out there about urbanism, city-living, sprawl and other such topics. Some are excellent, others have put me to sleep. Michael Sorkins Twenty Minutes in Manhattan is one of my new favorites. Although the description on the inside flap describes the book as a story of the walk from the ...
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• Toward the Sentient City: The Future of the Outernet and How to Imagine it?

  
  UgoTrade — Authority: 531
  Amphibious Architecture – “submerges ubiquitous computing into the water—that 90% of the Earth’s inhabitable volume that envelops New York City but remains under-explored and under-engaged.” Toward the Sentient City , brought “architects and urban designers into a conversation that until now has ...
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• The Forest

  
  Design Under Sky — Authority: 98
  The Forest from David Scharf on Vimeo . When Im in the city, though I like being around the action, I often feel disconnected. Instinctively, I feel theres too much complexities in information that poisons the soul. If we only knew how to keep it simple. Beautiful animation, kind of depressing as hell, but ...
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• One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square

  
  Blueprint — Authority: 118
  Author Marshall Berman has spent much of his life in or around Times Square. His mother would encourage the family to take a ‘bath of light’ in the Square, and, inspired by James Dean, it was there that he would practice the art of ‘hanging out’. Filled with personal histories, the book leads the reader ...
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• North Shirtwaist Station?

  
  limeduck — Authority: 110
  I tried to exit North Station this morning and found two of the doors padlocked from the outside.  Not that it would have mattered if they were padlocked from the inside. Vandalism or overzealous security, it’s hard to say.  7:30 is not exactly the wee hours of the morning for commuting.  In the rare (ok, not ...
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• Detroit: the new frontier?

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 575
  Last time we mentioned Detroit here, it was in the less-than-cheerful terms of it becoming a growth region for private security patrols , and the web is full of similar stories charting the Motor City’s decline in lucid hand-wringing detail . But what if they’re ignoring the positives in favour of those ...
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• Toronto 2.0

  
  ThickCulture — Authority: 457
  Brian Gilham map created from OpenTO data Notes from North of 49ºN Toronto Mayor David Miller recently unveiled the opening of city datasets on the OpenTO website , ushering in the city’s new era of Gov 2.0 .  In less than an hour, the above map of the city’s wards  was generated from the shapefiles. ...
  2 days ago

• Music, Wine, a Blanket and Good Urbanism

  
  Transit Miami — Authority: 430
  November 13, 2009 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm Come celebrate this excellent combination with the Miami DDA . As part of their monthly DWNTWN Miami Concert Series Laura Izibor will be performing. She’ll rock the stage at this free concert at Bayfront Park’s Tina Hills Pavilion . As always the show is at sunset ...
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• Wasted Space Helsinki

  
  lewism — Authority: 113
  I went to Vaihtolava in Kallio yesterday evening to see some talks given by the Hukkatila Group which, inspired by wastedspace.se is looking for their own wasted space in Helsinki to turn into projects, whether it’s urban farming or setting up a cafe. The talkers last night were Antti Möller-  Introduction. ...
  4 days ago

• HEBREWNOMICS — Scott Rothstein

  
  ZSIDOZAS - The Jewish Problem — Authority: 116
  In the last few days yet another ‘mini-Madoff’ Jewish economic leech has been exposed to the disinfecting light of day.  Scott Rothstein is yet another super-lawyer ‘businessman,’ and his fake economic empire has recently crumbled as have the phantom-fortunes of so many slimy Jews before him.  O’ Yahweh, ...
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• Originator of the Term “Eco-City” Cites Misuse

  
  Ecocity Media — Authority: 108
  As the person who first coined the term “Eco-city”, Ecocity Builders founder Richard Register questions the interpretation of the term in such places as the upcoming Abu Dhabi World Future Energy Summit in January of 2010. Register has been an advocate for the idea of ecologically healthy cities since 1965, and he ...
  5 days ago

• Stephen Hough Can’t Find Anything to Buy in Downtown Dallas

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 562
  Stephen Hough writes for London’s Telegraph . He’s kind of a big deal. He’s visiting our fair burg to hear the DSO. An alert FBvian points us to the following dispatch . Here’s what Hough has to say about Dallas so far: There are many wonderful things about this city, not least the DSO and their ...
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• Required reading: mapping the favela

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 575
  Via Chairman Bruce , here’s some required reading for anyone writing near-future fiction that involves a favela as a setting … and given the way the world is becoming urbanised, a near-future story that doesn’t feature a favela can probably be considered to have something missing from it! It’s an article ...
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• HEBREWNOMICS — Marc Stuart Dreier

  
  ZSIDOZAS - The Jewish Problem — Authority: 116
  The Jewish econo-terrorist Marc Stuart Dreier committed many economic crimes against humanity during his parasitic career.  Before being thrown in prison for 20 years he was a slithering lawyer + mega-financier, a truly vampiric combination. The amount of money thieved by this international Jewish criminal is ...
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• Snapshots from Beyond: Part 2

  
  Mockitecture — Authority: 112
  These gems from a recent road trip to the South (USA) begged me to visit Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Their marketing campaign featured wildly colorful birds, exotic animals, and adventure games all with subtle religious overtones. Perhaps the phenomenon of highway cities - or those which have originated and been ...
  6 days ago

• The Smart Growth Manual

  
  UrbanWorkbench — Authority: 414
  Smart Growth is slowly being recognized as having benefits outside of the usual talk of walkable neighbourhoods and streetscapes. This book, The Smart Growth Manual runs through the principles from the Regional context, the Neighbourhood, the Street, down to the Building design. If you are interested in New Urbanism, ...
  6 days ago

• Shrine of the Vélotariat

  
  Bicycle Diaries — Authority: 118
  blessing the bike On 2 November, The Oregonian reported that St. Stephens Episcopal Church in downtown Portland has become the nations first church with a permanent indoor shrine honoring the Madonna del Ghisallo , who is the patron saint of cyclists. An entire section of the 80-year-old ...
  6 days ago

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