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The Guardian: How one New York bike lane could affect the future of cycling worldwide | Matt Seaton
The Guardian on a bike lane in Brooklyn, Sadik-Khan, NYC Politics, & the NYTimes as an active and partisan player [MN]
politics  journalism  guardian  nytimes  nyc  (nyc)  cycling  urbanplanning  cities  urbanism  from twitter
march 2011 by Urbanscale
NYT: Squatters on the Skyline
Squatters on the skyline: images from our Ballardian present, from the NYT. [AG]
architecture  development  latinamerica  urbanism  cities  from twitter
march 2011 by Urbanscale
Designwala: Panel Discussion: Parallel Urbanism: local people regulating local spaces
Unusually thought-provoking disc. & diverse perspectives @ Parallel Urbanism: local people regulating local spaces [MN]
architecture  urbanplanning  cities  urbanism  nyc  (nyc)  india  conservation  politics  from twitter
march 2011 by Urbanscale
[1939] A Transit Program For The Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Fascinating and beautiful look back: A Transit Program For The Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, 1939 [MN]
via:mayonissen  mobility  transport  publictransport  LA  california  USA  cities  urbanism  1930s 
january 2011 by Urbanscale
Groupe Chronos: L'Homo Mobilis et ses risques
Bruno Marzloff - intelligent critique and extension of Georges Amar's thought, and my own.
transmobility  transportation  transit  mobility  cities  urbanism  urbansystemsdesign 
july 2010 by Urbanscale
Endcommercial
Still the gold standard for rigorous photodocumentation of the urban landscape.
(nyc)  photography  cities  sidewalking  yes 
june 2010 by Urbanscale
dConstruct 2009: Elements of a Networked Urbanism
A heroic transcription of the talk I gave in Brighton last year. While revealing all my tics and weaknesses as a speaker, it's nonetheless not a bad effort.
urbanism  urbancomputing  urbanplanning  urbansystemsdesign  cities  infrastructure  transit  technology  economics  surveillance  publicspace  interactiondesign 
february 2010 by Urbanscale
Podcast | dConstruct 2009
Here's my talk from dConstruct in Brighton a few weeks back. My goodness, I do go on. This is an absolutely sprawling talk! Check the tags for some idea of content.
augmented  architecture  API  cities  community  connoisseurship  crime  crowds  democracy  kultur  economics  futures  geography  identity  infovisualization  infrastructure  interface  location  maps  mobility  neighborhoods  networks  opensystems  publicspace  privacy  socialnetworking  swarm  transit  technosocial  ubicomp  urbancomputing  urbanism  wayfinding 
september 2009 by Urbanscale
A Better Oakland: What are the core functions of a city?
Not precisely the sense in which I'd ask this question, which is a data point in and of itself. Via teh Migurski.
oakland  cities  municipalgovernment 
june 2009 by Urbanscale
D'Blog of 'Israeli: All The Joy I See Through These Architect's Eyes
Amazing (and appropriately mega-)post on the evolution and representation of "Judge Dredd"'s Mega-City One.
cities  megacityone  architecture  yesterday'stomorrows  yes 
april 2009 by Urbanscale
NYT: France Unveils Bold Architectural Proposals for Metropolitan Paris
Sorry for all the NYT links. Nico's on top of it this week, though. Looks like top-down planning hasn't quite died. Also: maglev!
urbanplanning  infrastructure  paris  cities  maglev! 
march 2009 by Urbanscale
Boston.com: How the city hurts your brain
Via Jones. There's some absolute patent nonsense in here, among the strong insights, but worthwhile overall.
cities  urbanplanning  attention  cognition 
january 2009 by Urbanscale
[TIMES OF THE SIGNS]
A largely visual, coffee-table book on the hypermediated urban visual environment, understandably if unfortunately Nippocentric. The texts were too poorly designed to read comfortably, at least standing in Kiasma's gift shop...
signage  screens  urbanism  design  cities  facade  japan 
august 2008 by Urbanscale
Streetsblog: Sadik-Khan Introduces the New York City Model
Great. Now if someone could explain to me just what this so-called "New York City model" actually is...
(nyc)  sidewalking  transit  urbanplanning  urbanism  cities  cycling 
april 2008 by Urbanscale
The new urban penalty | Free exchange | Economist.com
Via blech. "America's farm and highway policies divert resources away from some of the most productive places in the country, at great taxpayer expense." AMEN to that.
economics  cities  urbanism 
april 2008 by Urbanscale
This Place Is…
"Raising awareness of people-centered place design"
urbanism  urbanplanning  design  ethnography  humangeography  cities 
january 2008 by Urbanscale
Urban Mapping Gives Us Free Neighborhoods
I read that title a little differently than they do. : . )
cities  neighborhoods  mapping  everyware  bookproject 
january 2008 by Urbanscale
CR Blog: Global Cities at Tate Modern
Via Paul Mison's comment on the Speedbird "high density" thread. *Incredible*, visceral "visualizations."
art  cities  maps  infovisualization  informationdesign  density 
january 2008 by Urbanscale
UDQ:59: An Urban Design Canon
I'd agree on some points, not on others. A little dated, but not bad.
urbanism  cities  designingdesign 
december 2007 by Urbanscale
The New Yorker: The Megacity
This great article on Lagos isn't any easier to take a year later. (Was it online before?)
lagos  cities  urbanism  africa 
december 2007 by Urbanscale

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