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• Cities X Design

  
  Kens Therapy — Authority: 110
  I found this interesting website the other day. Cities X Design They are currently in the midst of a cross country film project documenting urban design from coast to coast. The site has a social networking aspect through ning also. I thought I would share it with you guys, it looks very intriguing. I have yet ...
  17 hours ago

• Daily Links for November 11th through November 13th

  
  Akkam's Razor — Authority: 125
  All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s). Home | Report Card for Americas Infrastructure - Americas Infrastructure GPA: DEstimated 5 Year Investment Need: $2.2 Trillion NASA - 2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Wont End? - Much like Y2K, 2012 has been analyzed and the science of the end of ...
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• What Else Do You Want In Downtown Dallas?

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 550
  The AT&T Performing Arts Center is up and running. The Main Street Garden park opens today . Woodall Rodgers Park will be ready in a couple of years. We might be getting streetcars at some point in the near-ish future, and possibly bike lanes, too. (Maybe.) All good things. But, of course, downtown could use more ...
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• Want to Fix Downtown Cleveland? The Answer is at Cleveland State.

  
  Extraordinary Observations — Authority: 510
  Downtown Cleveland needs 25,000 residents to become a 24-hour urban center. I dont know where the magic 25,000 number came from, exactly; but its been tossed around quite a bit, and it seems pretty reasonable. Were only about 40% to that goal, so the harder question is: how is Cleveland going to attract 15,000 more ...
  2 days ago

• The Turkey in Union Station

  
  Southern Rockies Nature Blog — Authority: 420
  Walking toward our eastbound train at Chicagos Union Station one evening last week, I saw people pointing at something on the train tracks, below the platform. I looked. It was a wild turkey, very dead. And very out of place in downtown Chicago. Then I put some things together. M. and I had arrived on the ...
  2 days ago

• Smarter Cities ~ Project of the Natural Resources Defense Council

  
  Green Options — Authority: 146
  Have you heard about NRDC’s Smarter Cities ? “ When thinking about the urban environment, more often than not problems come first to mind.  Less commonly thought about is the potential presented by cities, potential to rethink and reshape their environments responsibly. Today urban leaders—mayors, ...
  2 days ago

• Smarter Cities ~ A Project by the Natural Resources Defense Council

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  About smarter cities: “When thinking about the urban environment, more often than not problems come first to mind.  Less commonly thought about is the potential presented by cities, potential to rethink and reshape their environments responsibly.  Today urban leaders—mayors, businesses and community ...
  2 days ago

• The World Is a Shop of Images and Signs

  
  One-Way Street — Authority: 117
  In my last post I touched upon the historical decline in experience, a major concern of Walter Benjamin. His concept of experience is very complex, but basically Benjamin argues that in modern times weve lost the ability to experience ordinary life as meaningful, as an activity connected to tradition. Instead, ...
  3 days ago

• On the Fall of the Wall

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 106
  Josef Stalin At My Potsdam Hotel I was in Berlin the weekend after the wall came down. I had never been to Berlin, and on my first day I went to see Schinkels Kleine Glienecke — by the Glienecke bridge, which had a constant stream of East Germans walking into West Berlin. It was quite a sight. On Sunday, we went ...
  3 days ago

• Kohler Arts Dispatch

  
  Deep Craft — Authority: 119
  a morning commuter braves the November chill in Sheboygan, Wisconsin Sheboygan is easily one of the coolest towns I’ve experienced. The people here exude an infectious optimism and can-do eagerness that conjure another time, a friendlier America of the past that in many ways has never left this small city on the ...
  3 days ago

• A New Generation Of Separation Walls

  
  The Pop-Up City — Authority: 422
  Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall collapsed. In memory of this historical event, we’d like to write some about the most insane and pointless invention in the history of architecture: The Wall. Walls are made to separate. In houses, for example, walls are partly meant to separate warm and cold air. Another function ...
  3 days ago

• Lakeside House / NOW for Architecture and Urbanism

  
  ArchDaily — Authority: 661
  © 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 ...
  4 days ago

• Baudelaire and the Decline of Experience

  
  One-Way Street — Authority: 117
  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 ...
  4 days ago

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

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 587
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Intelligent Urban Thinking

  
  Extraordinary Observations — Authority: 510
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Toward the Sentient City: The Future of the Outernet and How to Imagine it?

  
  UgoTrade — Authority: 485
  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: 106
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square

  
  Blueprint — Authority: 119
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• North Shirtwaist Station?

  
  limeduck — Authority: 412
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Detroit: the new frontier?

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 587
  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 ...
  5 days ago

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