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• Henri Lefebvre on Maps as Instant Infinity

  
  polis — Authority: 485
  Source: Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas "How many maps, in the descriptive or geographical sense, might be needed to deal exhaustively with a given space, to code and decode all its meanings and contents? It is doubtful whether a finite number can ever be given to this sort of question. What we are most ...
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• Shanghai | Satellite Scan

  
  movingcities.org — Authority: 98
  Line 6 to Holland Town | Shanghai, December 2011 While working on an article, for an upcoming issue of Bauwelt, on the European-themed satellite towns in Shanghai 上海 MovingCities went scanning the suburbs of the city. Taking the subway to the last stops on Line 9, Line 7 and Line 6 we arrived in Thames [...] ...
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• Haus Schwarzenberg

  
  Slow Travel Berlin — Authority: 101
  Grashina Gabelmann explores the story behind Mitte’s Haus Schwarzenberg… Photo courtesy of Haus Schwarzenberg website Most visitors to Berlin find themselves ambling along Mitte’s Rosenthaler Strasse at some point, often to browse well-known commercial landmarks like the Rosen and Hackeschen Höfe. ...
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• Thinking outside the box on the city’s finances

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 124
  We’ve seen the ideas generated by the Long Term Financial Management Task Force , which I thought lacked a certain amount of breadth to its perspective. Here’s a taste of what else might be out there to think about. Good Jobs Great Houston , of which the Houston Organization of Public Employees is a ...
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• Tarzan’s Giant Swimming Pool

  
  Street Art, Graffiti, Urban Artcore — Authority: 485
  In 1929, Johnny Weissmuller , an Austrian-Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor best known for playing Tarzan in movies, inaugurated the Piscine Molitor (also known as the Piscines Auteuil-Molitor or the Grands établissements balnéaires d’Auteuil) swimming pool in Paris (what is why I call it Tarzan’s ...
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• Amazing Site, RETROgrapher Maps Pittsburghs Photographic History

  
  Pittsburgh Arts - Digging Pitt — Authority: 109
  West Carson Street at Fernwood Street Southside Hoffers Way, Hill District, 1924 Constructing The William Penn Hotel 1915 How did I not know about this amazing resource that posts the exact mapped locations of Historic Pittsburgh Photographs. How it works? All of the photographs on the site come from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Trend 1: Crowd-Funded Urbanism

  
  The Pop-Up City — Authority: 503
  Crowd-funding has become extremely popular over last years. Lots of cultural, artistic and design initiatives have already been made possible thanks to platforms like Kickstarter . But will this work for urbanism too? Yes, it does! The idea of paying together for those things we really like, starts to win popularity ...
  2 weeks ago

• How the Nasher Hurts Itself and the Arts District

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 534
  Allisonette #4 and I strolled into the Nasher the other day to have lunch. To buy lunch, unlike at the DMA, we were told we first have to buy admission to the museum. The policy is understandable considering how the Nasher is configured. To get to the restaurant, one has to walk through the museum, so you see a lot ...
  2 weeks ago

• Frost Cloud

  
  The Lynx — Authority: 98
  Posted in Design , Montreal , Photography , Urbanism This is the “Nuage de givre” (Frost Cloud) display at the Place des Festivals, which is part of the Luminothérapie installations  around the Quartier des Spectacles in Montreal.  This initiative to light up the city’s entertainment ...
  2 weeks ago

• Salt Research Center / SANAL Architecture/Urbanism

  
  ArchDaily — Authority: 651
  © Refik Anadol Architects:  SANAL Architecture/Urbanism , Murat Şanal, Alexis Şanal, Begum Öner Location:  Karaköy, Istanbul , Turkey Gross Floor Area: 700 sqm Structure: Historic 19th Century Load Bearing + Timber Project Team: Ozlem Ozdemir Orkun Beydağı, Pillippa Tamsin, Sedef Zorbozan ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tip For Those Who Walk Around Downtown

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 534
  Just because there’s no sign saying you can’t walk down a sidewalk where someone’s using a jackhammer doesn’t mean you should walk down said sidewalk.
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• Demo Watch> Historic Warehouse Threatened on West Broadway

  
  Broken Sidewalk — Authority: 408
  Eastern section of former tobacco warehouse to be demolished. (Courtesy Tipster) This story is starting to get old, but another project under guise of community improving is tearing apart the future potential of West Louisville. The YMCA of Greater Louisville is set to build a new facility on Broadway between 17th ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2012 On the Brink: Our Networked Human Future

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 114
  We live in interesting times: the end of the “dumb society.” A great short documentary on our collective (and hopeful) future:
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• PIGS in 3D

  
  neo-nomad — Authority: 94
  Preparing two lectures ( it’s all in the book ! Read it :-) that will happen at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture (ESA) in Paris, France – Architecture des milieux lab (end of January) and Tokyo Denki University, Japan (mid February). The image above is an avant-goût . More details will come. Come say ...
  2 weeks ago

• Architecture Critic Calls for Reevaluating Parking Lots

  
  Broken Sidewalk — Authority: 408
  A parking lot at the KFEC. (Bing Maps) The New York Times ‘ new architecture critic Michael Kimmelman has been making waves with his coverage, not of the newest starchitect-designed showpieces, but of the critical urban issues that cities large and small are facing from public space to highway removal . ...
  2 weeks ago

• Leading Off (1/16/11)

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 534
  Bike Accident Illustrates Need For Safer Biker/Pedestrian Options: If you’ve ever ridden a bike over one of the two viaducts that span the Trinity River and connect Oak Cliff to downtown, you know how incredibly scary it is. It just got scarier: Dallas Torres, 32, was struck by a car while riding his bike on the ...
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• DenverInfill… A 2011 Retrospective

  
  DenverInfill Blog — Authority: 95
  As is tradition here at DenverInfill, let’s take a look back at the previous year and review what was going on from an infill/urbanism perspective in Denver’s urban core. Certainly, the past few years have been difficult for infill development, with the economy and financial markets struggling to recover from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Remix Your City - Fresh Push Play by HIFANA (via @AlJavieera)

  
  robertogreco {tumblr} — Authority: 114
  Remix Your City - Fresh Push Play by HIFANA (via @ AlJavieera )
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• Before Bay St Divided Yorkville

  
  Bricoleurbanism — Authority: 79
  Goad Atlas fire insurance map showing the area between Yonge St and Queens Park/Avenue Rd from near College St to Davenport Rd in 1913 - move over with mouse to see the same area in 1924 after Bay St was cut through One of Toronto’s little historical secrets is the mystery of why Bay St does such a large jog at ...
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• Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände

  
  Slow Travel Berlin — Authority: 101
  The snappily-titled Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände is a not-so-well-known 18-hectare urban park at the southern end of Schöneberg. The park has blossomed from the ruins of an old railway hub that was built in the 1890s, and which for 70 years operated as one of the city’s busiest (including during WWII). ...
  2 weeks ago

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