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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 ...
  17 hours 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

• The Kel Word: Walk This Way

  
  Velvetpark | Dyke Culture in Bloom — Authority: 142
  Knowing I wanted to write an eco piece today, I first thought Id cover how Montana Senator Max Baucus is
  1 week ago

• Reflections from the Front Porch

  
  Post Right — Authority: 516
  MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — Over at Nathancontrmundi , I’ve posted my first substantive bit of writing in some time, “Confessions of a Front-Porch Realist” , my reflections on the less-pleasant realities of localism in contemporary America. It is not, I hope, an accurate depiction of all of rural Middle ...
  1 week ago

• 3 cheers for Dansk vélopunk

  
  Bicycle Diaries — Authority: 118
  The Voice of the Globe 1937 rolls in Copenhagen From James A. Fitzpatricks Traveltalks The American documentary film director specialized throughout his career in travel documentaries. Besides directing, he also wrote, produced, and narrated. As well as The Voice of the Globe, MGM distributed a ...
  1 week ago

• Mueller ramble

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 464
  The new urbanism is suburbanism. (via Random Neural Misfirings)
  2 weeks ago

• ISMAR 2009: An Augmented Reality “Top Chef” Coopetition

  
  UgoTrade — Authority: 531
  ISMAR 2009 -  was an extraordinary mix of  high geek, academic eminence, gungho Dutch Cowboy entrepreneurial spirit, German engineering and industry, brilliant artistry and invention, all fueled by a sense, and a very active presence in the case of Diamond Sponsor – Qualcomm, that the big technology players are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brad Pitt, New Orleans home visionary

  
  Crunchy Con — Authority: 706
  Heres a great piece from the new issue of The Atlantic talking about all the experiments in green, affordable housing springing up in hurricane-devastated New Orleans. Bizarrely, the actor Brad Pitt is a huge player in this market. Sounds like...
  2 weeks ago

• Random Thoughts on Wildhorse Ranch and Measure P

  
  Surf Putah — Authority: 410
  In no particular order: * This is a excellent suburban housing proposal; the main question to me is generally whether suburbia is a failed model or not, and specifically if it is a failed model in the long run, whether a good suburban project is still worth building for the short-to-medium run. Personally, I think ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Urbanism: Renewing the City Or Are They The New Suburbs?

  
  The Urban Loft — Authority: 123
  As you know I’m all about seeing cities renewed whether that be spiritually, socially, or the built environment.  There’s nothing more exciting than to see new churches planted in the heart of the city or seeing urban family’s lives renewed as they grow into who God wants them to to be. There’s also something ...
  3 weeks ago

• Overheard on AIM

  
  queer and loathing — Authority: 114
  Clearly, as this excerpt from a conversation with my friend James shows, I have not assimilated well into our nation’s capital: myriadian: My current areas of interest are transportation policies, new urbanism, micro-lending, african aid, futurism, and of course I’m educated in biology, math, physics ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lessons for Houston from the global urban revolution

  
  Houston Strategies — Authority: 112
  Thanks to a generous invitation from the World Affairs Council of Houston , I was able to attend a recent talk by Jeb Brugmann, author of " Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities are Changing the World ", on " Cities of the Future: Ideas for Houston from Cities of the World ." Most of his talk focused on the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why Do We Plant Churches in the Suburbs?

  
  The Urban Loft — Authority: 123
  If roughly 70% of church planting today in various cities are in suburban contexts what does that tell us or teach us? Of the various church planting groups, networks and denominations that I looked at all of them had by far the majority of their church plants taking place in the suburbs.  What do we do with this ...
  3 weeks ago

• AR Wave: Layers and Channels of Social Augmented Experiences

  
  UgoTrade — Authority: 531
  It is now nearly two weeks since the Google Wave preview launch and I am happy to say we have some AR Wave news. The diagram above shows Thomas Wrobel’s basic concept for a distributed, multi-user, open augmented reality framework based on the Google Wave Federation Protocol and servers (click on the image to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Great New Program(me)

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 112
    Click to enlarge The Princes Foundation for the Built Environment has joined forces with NOLAs Preservation Resource Center and local construction unions to train craftsmen to restore Shotgun houses in New Orleans Ninth Ward. A rotating fund will pay for hundreds of restorations. More information when I ...
  4 weeks ago

• Good New Book

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 112
    Download Future of the Past Flyer
  4 weeks ago

• Does Your Church Match the City’s Brand?

  
  The Urban Loft — Authority: 123
  Every city has a brand, a flavor, a vibe, a feel, mojo, moxy, swagger , or whatever you want to call it.  Obviously some cities are more prominent than others but you get the idea.  There are some cities with such global momentum that it takes little to keep the rockets lit and their “brand expansion” from ...
  5 weeks ago

• POLL: Is Prince Charles good for architecture?

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 112
  http://bit.ly/ChasPoll [IMG: http://massengale.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bff5053ef0120a5cc524f970c-350wi]
  7 weeks ago

• Decatur Metro Commenter Tapped As Beltline CEO

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 141
  Eye-catching title, eh?It was announced this morning that former VP of Atlantic Station, Brian Leary – who has commented here amidst my many semi-rational rants against the massive mixed-use in the past – has been hired as the Beltline’s new CEO.According to his AS bio, Leary has spent more than a decade living ...
  7 weeks ago

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