Congress for the New Urbanism | Freeways Without Futures
september 2008 by bkerr
"the top-ten locations in North America where the opportunity is greatest to stimulate valuable revitalization by replacing aging urban highways with boulevards and other cost-saving urban alternatives."
planning
demo
future
nTopia
september 2008 by bkerr
University of Michigan CAUP | Global Suburbs
february 2008 by bkerr
March 7 and 8, 2008. "This conference seeks to examine global suburban development broadly to understand not only the past and present character of suburbia, but also with the hopes of understanding and guiding future development."
umich
events
urban
planning
suburbitude
future
handwavium
etc
via:mahatm
february 2008 by bkerr
Ask MetaFilter | What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?
books popularization toread accounting advertising animation architecture art astronomy astrophysics blacksmithing children's-books-editorial cognitive-science comedy comics computer-science construction cooking design directing economics editing egyptology electrical-engineering fencing filmmaking firefighting forensic-entomology game-design geology glassblowing graphic-design gynecology homebrewing husbanding hydrology hypnosis immunobiology industrial-design integrated-circuit-design investing journalism juggling knitting language language-acquisition law lexicography librarianship linguistics lisp marine-ecology materials-science mathematics medicine microfabrication molecular-biology mortuary-science music-publishing nanotechnology neuroscience oceanography organizing painting pathology philosophy photography planning playwriting poetics population-biology preservation programming psychometrics psychotheraphy radio sales scenery-painting screenwriting speculation teaching trading typography ubicomp
october 2007 by bkerr
books popularization toread accounting advertising animation architecture art astronomy astrophysics blacksmithing children's-books-editorial cognitive-science comedy comics computer-science construction cooking design directing economics editing egyptology electrical-engineering fencing filmmaking firefighting forensic-entomology game-design geology glassblowing graphic-design gynecology homebrewing husbanding hydrology hypnosis immunobiology industrial-design integrated-circuit-design investing journalism juggling knitting language language-acquisition law lexicography librarianship linguistics lisp marine-ecology materials-science mathematics medicine microfabrication molecular-biology mortuary-science music-publishing nanotechnology neuroscience oceanography organizing painting pathology philosophy photography planning playwriting poetics population-biology preservation programming psychometrics psychotheraphy radio sales scenery-painting screenwriting speculation teaching trading typography ubicomp
october 2007 by bkerr
CitySkip
september 2007 by bkerr
Note the photography section, wow.
cities
ning
yasn
exploration
planning
photography
design
september 2007 by bkerr
metromode | Density Vs. Transit
june 2007 by bkerr
"Misconceptions from local leaders that Southeast Michigan isn't dense enough or wouldn't ride mass transit are either not looking at the numbers or missing the point."
density
versus
transit
transportation
economics
trains
planning
etc
michigan
via:vielmetti
june 2007 by bkerr
Urban Austin
may 2007 by bkerr
"The goal of the Urban Austin project is to give the residents of Austin a complete, continually-updated online reference source of what's being planned and built."
civic
wiki
austin
texas
urban
planning
cities
documentation
via:mahatm
may 2007 by bkerr
a2b3-coworking
may 2007 by bkerr
Whoever wants to start this venture: here's your customer list (literally). Thanks Ed for creating the group and funneling threads over to it.
annarbor
coworking
microcoworking
a2b3
planning
list
via:vielmetti
may 2007 by bkerr
Talk:A2b3 - ArborWiki
april 2007 by bkerr
"Let's plan something. Blackboard style. We know we can pull off an event when we have..."
a2b3
annarbor
beer
micro
event
planning
coworking
networking
notworking
april 2007 by bkerr
walkinginfo.org: community problems and solutions | neighborhood guide
march 2007 by bkerr
"Are people not walking in your neighborhood? This guide will help you figure out why this may be the case."
pedestrian
advocacy
urban
micro
planning
neigborhood
iterative
walking
walkertracker
improvement
via:vielmetti
march 2007 by bkerr
Google Search | "Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years.
google search fun lit sf neal-stephenson snow-crash imagination planning baddest-motherfucker martial-arts-monastery colombian-drug-dealers revenge disease streets crime
march 2007 by bkerr
google search fun lit sf neal-stephenson snow-crash imagination planning baddest-motherfucker martial-arts-monastery colombian-drug-dealers revenge disease streets crime
march 2007 by bkerr
Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler | The Agenda Restated
february 2007 by bkerr
Jim Kunstler agenda for the world of tomorrow
ecology
economics
clustering
fuckup
future
agenda
culture
cities
planning
etc
via:adamgreenfield
february 2007 by bkerr
..[neoglam [thedaniel] ].. » project plan 07
january 2007 by bkerr
Takes bravery to post this kind of thing publicly, well met!
2007
thedaniel
planning
january 2007 by bkerr
The Goodspeed Update | Michigan Plans ‘Aerotropolis’
september 2006 by bkerr
Rob reports on student projects from a January 2006 design exercise in developments re: activity around DTW and Willow Run airports. Aficionados of RoboCop will note the similarity of several designs to "Delta City."
michigan
detroit
airport
architecture
urban
planning
future
september 2006 by bkerr
Jonathan D. Nolen | The Open Company Test
august 2006 by bkerr
It took one and a half years for this post and I to find one another.
biz
planning
freedom0
software
networks
etc
manifesto
august 2006 by bkerr
Archinect | Jane Jacobs goes to the great city in the sky
april 2006 by bkerr
"Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian writer/activist and author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), passed away this morning in Toronto."
urban
planning
cities
design
obituary
april 2006 by bkerr
Pica wiki: StartingPoint
february 2006 by bkerr
BayleShanks' project to generate awareness of bottom-up standards efforts.
internet
development
standards
organization
body
immediast
planning
february 2006 by bkerr
Space Syntax Laboratory | THE COMMON LANGUAGE OF SPACE: a way of looking at the social, economic and environmental functioning of cities on a common basis
february 2006 by bkerr
"It should be possible to build a domain theory of built environments as structural and functional entities in themselves, and this will lend greater precision to studies of its interactions with other domains."
urban
planning
wiki
patterns
design
spaces
social
language
systems
february 2006 by bkerr
SI IIDF wiki | Results from the 2005 SI Faculty Retreat
november 2005 by bkerr
I have no idea why this wiki is public. Nevertheless, it is. Very interesting material for those interested in the school, take a look.
umich
si
edu
future
planning
november 2005 by bkerr
The New York Times | Does Not Compute, by Nicholas Carr
january 2005 by bkerr
"It may not be much consolation to taxpayers, but the F.B.I. has a lot of company. Software hell is a very crowded place."
productivity
planning
fuckup
january 2005 by bkerr
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