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• High Cost of Ignoring Beauty

  
  CityKin — Authority: 429
  ....People need beauty. They need the sense of being at home in their world, and being in communication with other souls. In so many areas of modern life—in pop music, in television and cinema, in language and literature—beauty is being displaced by raucous and attention-grabbing clichés. We are being torn out of ...
  21 hours ago

• Planning to Appreciate All We Have in 2010

  
  The New Urban Mom - integrating family life, business and community — Authority: 91
  Like many people, every so often I think about moving.  Moving to a bigger house or a house with more bells and whistles. That line of thinking takes me down a number of paths.To match my budget and preferences we’d have to either leave the community we love or take on a bigger mortgage or [...]
  1 day ago

• Leon Krier’s lesson in architecture

  
  Emergent Urbanism — Authority: 91
  Review of The Architecture of Community – Léon Krier (2009), Island Press The Amazon Santa visited me this year and left Léon Krier’s latest, and likely ultimate, publication, The Architecture of Community . (Thanks to those who made generous purchases on the Emergent Urbanism Amazon Store , remember that ...
  1 day ago

• Revitalized City Centers and it’s Effect on Church Planting

  
  The Urban Loft — Authority: 425
  From a quick glance it would appear that there’s some sort of correlation between a city’s downtown and the state of church planting in the area. As to why I can only surmise but let’s explore this for a moment. As I look at the seven cities who make up my focus cities it almost goes without saying that the ...
  1 day ago

• Will 2010 Mark the Shift from the Backward-Looking and Unaffordable Electric Cars to Forward-Thinking Smart Mobility?

  
  EE/RE Investing — Authority: 103
  Cleantech Group Chairman Nicholas Parker Thinks So Tom Konrad, Ph.D. I’ve long argued that the future of mobility in the peak oil era will center on alternative modes of transport , not alternative fuels for the same old car infrastructure.  Electric cars are probably the car of the future, but the cost of ...
  5 days ago

• Public Spaces in the New Urbanism

  
  The Urban Loft — Authority: 425
  Other than during college this is the first time I’ve lived in a place without a yard. Moving into a small apartment here in Burnaby, BC has brought about a lot of changes for us. No longer do we have a two car garage, a yard to maintain, and a house all to our own. As a matter of fact we simply got rid of all of ...
  1 week ago

• Why I Have Been AWOL - And Upcoming Topics - Including Why the GRTC Bus Barn Sale to RRHA Sucks Rotten Eggs

  
  Melissa Savenko's Richmond Real Estate Review — Authority: 112
  I suck.  I cant believe I havent posted anything in ELEVEN days, which in the blogosphere might as well be eleven months.  Gotta stay relevant, and prolific.  My excuses: I moved, and my life is chaos; I have no Internet service; I ama Richmond native and therefore genetically incapable of driving in the barest ...
  1 week ago

• Well always have ParisMon Dieu! Paris is the new Dubai?

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 118
  Quoting myself: One century ago, technology was threatening Paris withchanges that already had them talking about the "Manhattanization" ofParis. Elevators and steel frames made it possible to build higher thanbefore, railroads, subways and buses changed the concept of theneighborhood, the electric light alleviated ...
  1 week ago

• Steve Semes - The Future of the Past

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 118
  The general public has never forgotten that the purpose of architecture and planning is to design beautiful buildings and places that offer joy in utility, or that the purpose of historic preservation is to preserve them — not as artifacts in a museum but as living examples of the way architects and planners should ...
  1 week ago

• A Street Is A Terrible Thing To Waste, Part III

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 118
  I WROTE the following more than two years ago but for various reasons never posted it. After Léon Kriers recent talk and booksigning for CNU New York and the Municipal Art Society, however, I had dinner with Krier and talked to him about how some of his urban-infill ideas might work in re-urbanizing some of the vast, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Notes on "Can the Polis Live Again?"

  
  Woodland Shoppers Paradise — Authority: 118
  Contemplating the so-called "Tiny Town" project -- not literally "small" towns but installations designed to generate paradoxical perspectives of public life in miniature -- I find myself imagining my next book, my next new course, and certainly the next stage of my thinking as unambiguously "post-omnitopian." For a ...
  2 weeks ago

• A new bike adventure

  
  Bicycle Diaries — Authority: 118
  gone but not forgotten! Today marks my last official day of work until September 1, 2010. It was a balmy September afternoon when I sprung the idea of an eight month sabbatical on my boss as we biked back to the office from a downtown meeting. She was reluctant but willing to listen. I presented a detailed ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cities for Cycling

  
  Bicycle Diaries — Authority: 118
  think national build local! The National Association of City Transportation Officials just launched this new project to share best practices on developing and maintaining world-class bicycle transportation systems. As cities and towns increasingly pioneer new designs it will assist local officials by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Augmented Reality DevCamp NYC: The Big ARNY – A Collaborative AR Game Project Modeled After Swarm of Angels

  
  UgoTrade — Authority: 450
  First an incredibly big thank you to The Open Planning Project office (TOPP) – @TOPPLabs, and Sophia Parafina, @spara ,  for organizing, hosting,  sponsoring and providing so much inspiration for this event. There is an incomplete list of attendees below, and there were about 70 people at one point watching ...
  3 weeks ago

• Up on the Rooftop, Ideas Pause

  
  FoodShed Planet — Authority: 99
  So I was standing there on the grass which I never really finished push-reel-mowing back in October (and, by the way, Im now thinking of not giving up on that). I looked up at the men on my roof ripping asphalt shingles and tossing them onto blue tarps that are over my garden, which now surrounds three sides of my ...
  3 weeks ago

• The AR Wave Project: An Introduction and FAQ by Thomas Wrobel

  
  UgoTrade — Authority: 450
  Images  from Mitsuo Iso’s Denno Coil (Click to enlarge), the game “Metroid Prime,” and Terminator. Thomas Wrobel , Sophia Parafina , Joe Lamantia and I will lead a  session tomorrow for AR DevCampNYC introducing the AR Wave Project.  Thomas and Joe will be participate via skype (10am to 11.30am ...
  3 weeks ago

• Web 2.0 Meets Gov 2.0: Hacking Human Behavior within a City, FourSquare, MoMo #13, and AR DevCamp

  
  UgoTrade — Authority: 450
  Mobile social communication is beginning to take center stage as the internet moves to real time communications . The recent explosion of interest in augmented reality is part of a wider concern to orchestrate a new landscape of contextually relevant information linked to location/place/time and mobile social ...
  4 weeks ago

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