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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
Candy Chang: Before I Die… in NOLA
"Before I Die", 's public installation, turns a neglected space in New Orleans into a constructive one [MN]
installation  art  participation  politics  urbanism  from twitter
february 2011 by Urbanscale
the Daily Pothole
The daily pothole: 3,859 potholes fixed in NYC yesterday. Photos. Maps. Oddly compelling. [MN]
internet  street  urban  urbanism  socialmedia  (nyc)  from twitter
february 2011 by Urbanscale
Belysningskarta Umeå kommun
A beautiful interactive map of every street and park light owned and run by Umeå's municipality
maps  mapping  data  light  safety  urbanism  sweden  from twitter
february 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
Q&A With the Danish Architect Bjarke Ingels - NYTimes.com
"We’re trying to see if you can create a hybrid typology. What happens if you crossbreed the Copenhagen courtyard with the New York high-rise? [...] New York is ideal for cycling."
via:mayonissen  urbanism  architecture  design  copenhagen  (nyc) 
january 2011 by Urbanscale
Against Gravity: Peter Sloterdijk on "spheres" & "foam"
Some provocative, fertile figures for public space here. (Sloterdijk would insist they're precisely not "metaphors.")
urbanism  theory  proxemics  publicspace  socialities 
january 2011 by Urbanscale
Serial Consign: Location-Based Linkage
Lotsa great stuff; see also Sha's comment on "distributed living rooms."
urbanism  location  augmented  interactiondesign  geography  from delicious
august 2010 by Urbanscale
Urban Omnibus: Clip-on Architecture: Reforesting Cities
Getting to this inexcusably late. Combine this becoming scheme with the sort of frameworks I've spent so much time thinking about and you've got a responsively green urban fabric of impressive potential.
urbanism  architecture  futures  ecosystems 
july 2010 by Urbanscale
Urban Omnibus: Frameworks for Citizen Responsiveness: Towards a Read/Write Urbanism
Cassim did a great job of editing my two 1,500-word texts into a single 1,000-word piece. The essential points are intact; the voice is mostly preserved. Enjoy.
urbancomputing  urbanism  infrastructure  sidewalking  transmobility  networks  neighborhoods 
july 2010 by Urbanscale
NYT: Envisioning a Small Electric BMW for the World’s Very Big Cities
You know I'm not convinced that what the world's megacities "need" is any kind of car at all.
cars  design  mobility  urbanism  bmw  futures 
july 2010 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
The Economist: Green.view: How to be urban
In my view, the mistake here is to assume that the necessary solutions for 2030 need primarily to be about new architecture. It's also the case that you're not terribly likely to get clear thinking about mobility in a contest sponsored by Audi.
architecture  urbanism  futures 
june 2010 by Urbanscale
Ascent Stage: Off the grid
Concretized desire lines, walking through walls, and like that...Chicago style.
chicago  networks  sidewalking  deleuze  urbanism 
may 2010 by Urbanscale
Tomoe + Abe: MEGAHOUSE
Regrettably commerce-oriented, but otherwise absolutely right-on. "Inhabit the city as though it were your house." NB There's no reason why the plug-in services here specified as commercial ventures couldn't be swapped out for free or non-cash-economy alternatives.
urbancomputing  urbanism  networks  servicedesign  ecosystems  infrastructure  yes 
may 2010 by Urbanscale
Feng Shui City: Networked Cuba quarter
CJ Wells came to our Systems/Layers walkshop in Wellington and blogged this *awesome* writeup. So, so stoked. (See map at http://is.gd/bHfNa)
wellington  webstock  walkshop  sidewalking  psychogeography  doprojects  urbancomputing  urbanism 
april 2010 by Urbanscale
Londonist: Have You Seen These Chalk Symbols On The Streets Of London?
Via Alex, latterday hobo signs spring up in London. Well, not "spring up" - it's a much less organic process. But still.
london  urbanism  code  signage  design 
april 2010 by Urbanscale
Archigram Archival Project
A million times yes. An incredible resource: for all my books on Archigram, this is the first time I'm seeing a lot of these images.
archigram  1960s  architecture  urbanism  yes  againyes 
april 2010 by Urbanscale
Invincible Cities
Camilo José Vergara's astonishing series of photographs on post-industrial cities. Awful interaction design, but worth it for things like, particularly, this image of trees growing inside Camden's dilapidated Carnegie Library: http://viennasecession.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/6_warrencentertreevergara.jpg
urbanism  geography  history  landscape  photography  interestingtimes 
april 2010 by Urbanscale
ELEMENTAL: Quinta Monroy
I've been looking for this for awhile - I think I saw it mentioned at the AA in London last time I was there. Anyway, delighted (and not particularly surprised) to see it turn up at Open Structures.
architecture  urbanism  opensystems  chile 
march 2010 by Urbanscale
YouTube: Systems/Layers: Understanding urban space in an era of networked informatics
If you couldn't make it to Wellington, this video will go some way toward capturing the flavor and texture of our walkshop. Thanks so much to Nigel for filming it!
urbancomputing  urbanism  sidewalking  wellington  newzealand  webstock 
february 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
Taxi of Tomorrow
Didn't we go through all this already?
(nyc)  mobility  design  urbanism  transportation  taxis 
february 2010 by Urbanscale
Steven Holl Architects: Linked Hybrid, Beijing
Ostensibly, a "twenty-first century porous urban space, inviting and open to the public from every side. Filmic urban public space; around, over and through multifaceted spatial layers, as well as the many passages through the project, make the Linked Hybrid an 'open city within a city.'"
beijing  architecture  urbanism  publicspace  stevenholl 
december 2009 by Urbanscale
The Block: The Complete History of Eldridge Street between Stanton and Rivington 1795-1991
Jackpot link. "Click on any building to learn more about it." So beautifully done.
(nyc)  urbanism  history  les  sidewalking 
november 2009 by Urbanscale
City Forward
As noted previously, very disturbed at IBM's attempts to bigfoot the conversation around these issues. Which is a huge shame, because so so much of this is right on.
urbancomputing  urbanism  contingent  politics 
october 2009 by Urbanscale
In No Order Whatsoever: Places
Kevin Lynch's unfinished work - topics of interest like "A quantitative analysis of the flow of material through a city." (Is Design Observer getting more interesting? I've never had any particular use for the site, but this is the third time in as many weeks I've followed a link there & found it rewarding.)
urbanism  kevinlynch 
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Vague Terrain: Cognitive Maps and Database Urbanisms
"These...logics and relationships...resist conventional forms of representation[,] and to operate within them requires the development of tools of analysis and design that account for the multiplicities of scale and complex logics that are found within the contemporary city."
urbanism  architecture  maps  designingdesign  urbancomputing  urbansystemsdesign  complexity  politics 
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Frankie Roberto: Logos in Lego Town
Weirdly apropos of some thoughts I've had recently - and not yet expressed save as some incoherent Twitter posts - about the branding of civic institutions and the use of that branding as generator of solidarity.
lego  branding  urbanism 
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Curating the Open City
Via Rahul. "[T]he open city is not a specific place, it’s not a fixed entity. Rather, it’s a condition, usually found only in fragments, in parts of cities, where a fragile balance between integrating and disintegrating forces is maintained."
urbanism  opensystems  citizenship 
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Hands On Barcelona's Informational Membrane: Oct 24 12:00-18:00 at Citilab
All-killer, no-filler urbcomp fun in the city. Check link for attendees. This is going to be special.
barcelona  urbancomputing  fabiengirardin  urbanism 
september 2009 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
Worldchanging: Letter from Copenhagen - Cities and Citizenship
Good for Alex, beginning to move toward the recognition that more will be called for than "bright green" environmentalism - much more.
urbanism  politics  citizenship  copenhagen  america  community  healthcare  interestingtimes 
september 2009 by Urbanscale
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