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• Watch Thom Mayne’s “Architecture as Connection” talk at TED

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 127
  Architect Thom Mayne has never been one to take the easy option, and this whistle-stop tour of the buildings he’s created makes you glad for it. These are big ideas cast in material form. Widely regarded as one of the world’s most provocative architects, Thom Mayne is only interested in exploring the new, ...
  1 week ago

• NOLA Cycle Project

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 738
  One effect of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans was to render existing bike maps of the city obsolete and incomplete. The NOLA Cycle Bike Map Project is a grassroots effort to create a comprehensive, freely-available bicycle map for New Orleans (like those that already exist for Chicago , Portland , and other ...
  1 week ago

• Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd – Urban Planning Speech

  
  Real Estate Buzz — Authority: 158
  The forces of the global economy are driving rapid urban growth and requiring governments to rethink their approach to the planning and development of cities. As the (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s) 2006 report on Competitive Cities in the Global Economy argues, national economic strategy ...
  2 weeks ago

• Weekly Bookmarks – Monday, 26. October 2009

  
  Urban Milwaukee — Authority: 124
  Comptroller’s report raises concerns about The Moderne – BizTimes Badger Guns case brings probation – JSOnline UWM meets with neighbors on Freshwater School site – JSOnline Despite Cudahy cash vanishing, UWM still plans for Tosa – JSOnline Developer proposes apartments for east side site – ...
  2 weeks ago

• SOM Wins Competition to Create Beijing’s Sustainable City Center

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 745
  Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) was recently awarded the contract to create a stunning new Central Business District in Beijing. The project will integrate into the existing downtown urban district and will improve transportation infrastructure while introducing energy-efficient buildings green public space. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Unique CrowdSourcing Event: The Smarter Cities Scan

  
  HorizonWatching — Authority: 114
  Do you live in a large urban city or in one of the sprawling suburban environments on the fringes of a large city? I wanted to make you aware of a really interesting collaboration / social media project launched recently...
  3 weeks ago

• Architecture & Urban Planning in China: urbanization to create massive infrastructure investment

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 127
  Some 300 million Chinese now living in rural areas — the equivalent of the entire population of the United States — will move into cities in the coming 15 to 20 years, said a senior Chinese official recently. The fast pace of urbanization will create at least 1 trillion yuan (nearly 150 billion US dollars) in ...
  3 weeks ago

• This Exercise Machine is not as Ridiculous as the Others. It is Self Powered.

  
  Blog - tchan_4 — Authority:
  Precor EFX 546 In an ideal human condition, where cities and neighborhoods are planned out with the pedestrian in mind, the calories we use with our bodies wouldn’t be wasted on vain or useless activities, such as exercise. Instead, we would use precious calories to power our bodies or bicycles to get to work, or ...
  4 weeks ago

• Liesbet Bussche Adorns Amsterdam With Larger-Than-Life Jewelry

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 745
  Re-inventing ordinary street dividers and concrete balls, Liesbet Bussche creates larger-than-life jewelry pieces for the streets of Amsterdam. The Belgian designer makes small interventions to the street scape, a charm to a chain or earring backs to a concrete ball. However, altogether the jewelry can easily make any ...
  4 weeks ago

• Links Roundup of the Week: Planning for Sustainability

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 745
  Last week, Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG asked Mason White of InfraNet Lab for his thoughts on the growing interest in infrastructure and planning. White reflected that designers today that are looking to positively impact the built environment, and are subsequently thinking about the bigger picture rather than ...
  5 weeks ago

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