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
Events List -- Ann Arbor District Library | Gaming Expert Greg Trefry Discusses 'From Indie Games To Big Games'
september 2007 by bkerr
Sunday October 7, 2007: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm -- Pittsfield Branch
aadl
events
casual
games
design
urban
overlay
payphone
warriors
via:vielmetti
september 2007 by bkerr
AA News | McKinley plans Town Centre expansion - Latest from the Ann Arbor News
september 2007 by bkerr
"'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
august 2007 by bkerr
"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
july 2007 by bkerr
"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 :: Lord von Brian the Destructor of Death's Helmet - Level 1 Knight
july 2007 by bkerr
Last-minute cleaning ahead of tonight's dinner guests means some easy XP and a few sweet drops.
warning:selflink
household
chore
grind
game
roleplay
incentives
social
comparison
urban
dead
i-wanna-cast-a-spell
i-cast-magic-missile
july 2007 by bkerr
Chore Wars :: Earning Experience Points for Housework
july 2007 by bkerr
"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
june 2007 by bkerr
"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
globeandmail.com | William Gibson Pining for Toronto's 'gone world'
may 2007 by bkerr
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
may 2007 by bkerr
"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
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
walking as knowing as making
april 2007 by bkerr
Spring 2005 symposium.
walking
walkertracker
urban
ranger
peripatetic
navelgazing
events
via:vielmetti
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
jeweled platypus | A better resting place than an elevator
march 2007 by bkerr
"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
march 2007 by bkerr
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
march 2007 by bkerr
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
march 2007 by bkerr
"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
Twitter / the daniel: oh yeah, forgot to mention, me an zo went batman on a purse snatcher today. blam.
march 2007 by bkerr
thedaniel sez: "i am the bat. the night is mine. i am the bat. i am the bat."
thedaniel
zoetica
versus
losangeles
criminal-element
batman
batgirl
supermassive
twitterific
urban
crime
fighting
battle
combat
motorcycle
unit
smash-control-lines
smash-word-lines
send-your-armies
no-man-or-machine
march 2007 by bkerr
Everyday Systems podcast episode 6: Urban Ranger (MP3)
march 2007 by bkerr
"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)
march 2007 by bkerr
"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
march 2007 by bkerr
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
march 2007 by bkerr
"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
YouTube - Anybots walking robot
february 2007 by bkerr
Dynamically balancing bipedal robot.
walking
walkertracker
robot
urban
cybernetics
rhodomagnetic
apocalypse
first-we-take-manhattan
then-we-take-berlin
via:thedaniel
february 2007 by bkerr
Running from Camera
february 2007 by bkerr
"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
february 2007 by bkerr
"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
Desolation Row Redux - a photoset on Flickr
february 2007 by bkerr
"Abandoned housing project, Taiwan." Set 2 of 2.
raygungothic
urban
future
ruins
visual
city
exopolitics
time-and-the-radiant-holy-city
gernsback-continuum
february 2007 by bkerr
Desolation Row - a photoset on Flickr
february 2007 by bkerr
"Abandoned housing project, Taiwan." Set 1 of 2.
raygungothic
urban
future
ruins
visual
city
exopolitics
time-and-the-radiant-holy-city
gernsback-continuum
february 2007 by bkerr
'I will launch the beta of Neighbourhood Fix-It' - PledgeBank
february 2007 by bkerr
"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
january 2007 by bkerr
"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’
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
blog.plazes.com | Plazes goes mobile
august 2006 by bkerr
"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
Portland Architecture
may 2006 by bkerr
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
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
prematurely grey | Coming Out of the Closet: Part One
april 2006 by bkerr
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
march 2006 by bkerr
"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
march 2006 by bkerr
"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)
february 2006 by bkerr
"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
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
Downtown Development Strategies Project
january 2006 by bkerr
aka the Calthorpe Plan.
annarbor
city
urban
future
january 2006 by bkerr
AlterNet: Hurricane Katrina: 'They' Destroyed New Orleans
december 2005 by bkerr
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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