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University of Michigan CAUP | Global Suburbs
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
AA News | McKinley plans Town Centre expansion - Latest from the Ann Arbor News
"'This [more, additional shit like Salsarita's Michi-Mex shovelware and an AT&T storefront] is going to tremendously revitalize the area,' said McKinley's chief executive officer, Albert Berriz." All eyes on "current owner Ruth Fitzgerald."
annarbor  mckinley  assholes  urban  warfare  guerilla  citizenship  liberty  demolish  or  expand  downtown  one-eyed  dollar  networks  stick-around-annarbor  via:mahatm  via:everybody 
september 2007 by bkerr
Freep | Walking the whole way up Woodward
"The avenue from Detroit to Pontiac is paved with 26 miles of history -- and it's celebrating its 200th anniversary."
detroit  pontiac  woodward  michigan  walking  urban  ranger  walk-away-from-the-sea  via:vielmetti 
august 2007 by bkerr
BikeWalk.org :: National Center for Bicycling and Walking
"We believe communities should be planned, designed and managed to ensure that people of all ages and abilities can walk and bike easily, safely, and regularly."
pedestrian  bicyclist  advocacy  community  exploration  urban  navigation  collective  action  via:vj 
july 2007 by bkerr
Chore Wars :: Earning Experience Points for Housework
"Recruit a party of adventurers from your household or office, and whenever one of you completes a chore, you can log it and claim XP." Next little thing from Kevan Davis.
household  chore  grind  game  roleplay  incentives  social  comparison  urban  dead  i-wanna-cast-a-spell  i-cast-magic-missile 
july 2007 by bkerr
SMART Newsletter - June 14, 2007 | Upcoming Speaker June 21st from noon until 1:00pm: Mary Crass, European Conference of Ministers of Transport
"Using selected examples from Europe and other OECD countries, Mary Crass will discuss how national policies and incentives affect and support implementation of sustainable transportation and accessibility in urban regions."
umich  events  transit  travel  urban  access  inclusive  etc  via:vaguery 
june 2007 by bkerr
Neighborhood Notes | Lost?
"The Pearl District is not uncharted territory -- it now boasts 3 maps. If you get lost, wander into a local shop or restaurant and you will likely find one of these maps."
portland  pearl  urban  mapping  commerce  unscene  mapclicks 
may 2007 by bkerr
globeandmail.com | William Gibson Pining for Toronto's 'gone world'
College Hostel beckons: "Only the febrile tackiness of Yonge below Bloor preserves something of my past, and I invariably find myself walking there, considering how the cheap, flashy goods of the 21st century resemble the cheap flashy goods of the 20th."
toronto  canada  lost  retro  futurism  urban  cyberkipple  future  nostalgia 
may 2007 by bkerr
Flickr: Urban Experience
"Welcome to Urban Experience! We're documenting the urban experience with a focus on information, design, interaction and usability."
urban  environment  objects  design  experience  accessibility  beauty  coordination  via:mahatm 
may 2007 by bkerr
Urban Austin
"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
walkinginfo.org: community problems and solutions | neighborhood guide
"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
jeweled platypus | A better resting place than an elevator
"On the edge of a grocery-store parking lot in an obscure part of Glendale, there is a cart cemetery."
shopping-cart  urban  retail  detritus  rust  via:britta 
march 2007 by bkerr
Plug Finder
Mapping publicly-accessible electrical outlets in Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Portland, OR.
google  maps  urban  micro  cyberinfrastructure  public  electricity  umich  a&d  bluepuddle 
march 2007 by bkerr
PingMag | Troika: making technology blame itself
Interview with the creators of, among other things, the SMS Guerilla Projector: "We try to create what we feel has been lost from products; a subjectivity and a narrative, a concept that goes beyond fitting 10,000 songs in a box."
tech  consumer  product  sms-guerilla-projector  public  urban  sms  display  SCHIZOPOROTICA  punch-card  music  tool-for-armchair-activists  design  london 
march 2007 by bkerr
Zillow Blog | Confessions of an Empty-Nester
"Now our family is grown, and my husband and I decided the next chapter in our lives would be more exciting and invigorating if we said goodbye to The House ... We now live in the middle of downtown Seattle in a condo."
urban  ranger  seattle  micro  pedestrian  life 
march 2007 by bkerr
Everyday Systems podcast episode 6: Urban Ranger (MP3)
"Remember Strider, in Lord of the Rings? They didn't call him Sneaker or Sprinter or Sworder, though he possessed these skills in abundance ... Not only could he could outpace his enemies, by his walking reconnaissance, he came to outknow them."
urban  ranger  pedestrian  ambition  cities  walking  walkertracker  mobile  exploration  unit 
march 2007 by bkerr
Everyday Systems podcast episode 6: Urban Ranger (transcript)
"You need to convince yourself that walking is not some last ditch compromise shadow exercise, but that it's profoundly ass kickingly exciting. That's where urban ranger comes in."
urban  ranger  pedestrian  ambition  cities  walking  walkertracker  mobile  exploration  unit 
march 2007 by bkerr
Urban Ranger: build the habit of purposeful walking
The original urban ranger essay/manifesto. "The question should be 'when shouldn't I walk?' Walking is the default activity. It's everything else that needs a justification."
urban  ranger  pedestrian  ambition  cities  walking  walkertracker  mobile  exploration  unit 
march 2007 by bkerr
Barcelona ACCESSIBLE
"40 people with disabilities use mobile phones to photograph every obstacle they come across on the city's streets. By means of multimedia messages they create a map of inaccessible Barcelona on the internet."
barcelona  urban  mobile  accessibility  maps  art 
march 2007 by bkerr
Running from Camera
"The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can."
photography  urban  ranger  time  weblogs  via:britta 
february 2007 by bkerr
PingMag | Pallalink - twisted symmetrie photographs
"By making it symmetrical I confront the natural with the mechanical, the artificial. Architecture... is artificial. However, when people come and gather, it becomes like a city, a living organism and the situation transforms into something more natural."
architecture  mashup  urban  cut-up  word-falling  photo-falling  new-angel-city 
february 2007 by bkerr
'I will launch the beta of Neighbourhood Fix-It' - PledgeBank
"Neighbourhood Fix-It is mySociety's next site. It is a simple service which allows people across the UK to report common local problems like graffiti, broken street lights, leaking pipes etc by sticking a pin in the map."
urban  ranger  walking  walkertracker  pedestrian  civic  maps 
february 2007 by bkerr
Social Design Notes | Negative Campaigning
"A great action in NYC, taping placards over those outdoor video billboards attached to subway entrances. The typography is composed of holes in the board, illuminated by the video ad beneath."
urban  advertising  art  nyc 
january 2007 by bkerr
The Goodspeed Update | Michigan Plans ‘Aerotropolis’
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
blog.plazes.com | Plazes goes mobile
"Now you can do a Plazes search from your phone. Where is the next Coffeeshop with free Wifi within 2km? No problem with the new Plazer!"
plazes  mobile  urban  internet  etc 
august 2006 by bkerr
OpenStreetMap
"...is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them."
wiki  maps  streets  urban  spaces 
june 2006 by bkerr
Portland Architecture
Architecture as blogged by a freelance writer/photographer.
portland  architecture  urban  spaces  design  weblog 
may 2006 by bkerr
Archinect | Jane Jacobs goes to the great city in the sky
"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
prematurely grey | Coming Out of the Closet: Part One
Long but interesting introduction to "The Compact" -- a community-building, anti-consumer project organized using low-fi net tools.
urban  consumer  culture  cooperation  coordination 
april 2006 by bkerr
ZeroOne San Jose & ISEA2006
"A Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art."
art  architecture  urban  spaces  design  conference  cities  events  electronic  fun  digital  media  culture  via:vielmetti 
march 2006 by bkerr
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Invisible city
"Chongqing is the fastest-growing urban centre on the planet. Its population is already bigger than that of Peru or Iraq, with half a million more arriving every year in search of a better life."
urban  china  humans  cities  future 
march 2006 by bkerr
Internet Archive | Detroit: City on the Move (1965)
"Promotional film made for the City of Detroit, an unsuccessful bidder for the Olympic Games. With views of city highways, automobile manufacturing, a diverse population, and social activities, all shot prior to the city's economic decline."
urban  advertising  detroit  past  via:revgeorge 
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
"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
AlterNet: Hurricane Katrina: 'They' Destroyed New Orleans
Commendable article by a student from the University of New Orleans about 'them.'
politics  culture  urban  conspiracy  katrina  past  neworleans  future 
december 2005 by bkerr
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