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How to Not Kill a Cyclist
handy tips
bike  cities 
10 days ago by dsankey
Drift: a tool for getting lost in familiar places
Broken City Lab's iOS app for psychogeographic walks
iphone  art  cities 
17 days ago by dsankey
Flaherty Should Cool Toronto’s Condo Market (Not Just Warn Us About It)
Realosophy argues for taxes that reduce speculation in the condo market. I agree - the measures that Flaherty has taken to reign in the housing market all make it harder for actual people to buy the land they want to live in.
business  economics  canada  toronto  cities 
27 days ago by dsankey
Where Should We Put the “Downtown Relief” Line?
Steve Munro on the possible DRL routes. He doesn't spend a lot of time discussing where it would connect with the Yonge-University line, which I'm curious about, as Metrolinx doesn't seem to want it to go to Union for capacity reasons
ttc  toronto  transit  cities 
28 days ago by dsankey
Welcome to Ikea-land: Furniture giant begins urban planning project
cities  uk 
7 weeks ago by dsankey
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Utopian Dystopia
about Broadacre City, FLW's plan for a very sprawling, planned suburb
cities  usa 
7 weeks ago by dsankey
Rob Ford's removal from office sought by Clayton Ruby
some good details of the case
toronto  cities  politics 
11 weeks ago by dsankey
Pedestrians crossing mid-block in Toronto: the definitive guide
what do you know, jaywalking isn't actually a crime in Toronto. Reasonable!
toronto  cities 
11 weeks ago by dsankey
Mayor Rob Ford loses control of TTC board
"Students of urban studies, political science, local democracy and municipal governance will be citing this issue and this era for as long as such university programs exist."
cities  toronto  politics  transit  ttc 
11 weeks ago by dsankey
TTC: Councillors retain control of transit board
Stintz's motion passes, and Ford loses control of the TTC.
toronto  cities  politics 
12 weeks ago by dsankey
Goodbye, Bay Street. Hello... South Core?
a new office tower boom is going on 'twixt the CN Tower and the ACC (<a href="http://funkaoshi.com">via</a>)
toronto  cities 
12 weeks ago by dsankey
"The Rise of the Creative Class" by Richard Florida
the essay version, that preceded the book. I was happy to find this because I have been meaning to read the book, but feared I would hate it. This seems pretty harmless, a distillation and refocusing of earlier concepts (information work, new middle class) into an argument that perhaps needed to be made.
sociology  cities  ideas 
12 weeks ago by dsankey
TTC slashes service on 62 routes
apparently the TTC counts as "gravy". Just so stupid - it's obvious to anyone who uses it that we need more service, not less. This will only lead to more cars on the road.
ttc  toronto  cities  transit  canada 
november 2011 by dsankey
Jenna Morrison and the cost of living
on the need for truck side guards, which would have prevented many cyclist deaths, and have been mandatory in Europe since the 80s
toronto  bike  cities 
november 2011 by dsankey
Is CityPlace Toronto’s next ghetto?
I thought we didn't say ghetto any more.
toronto  cities 
november 2011 by dsankey
“How Toronto Lost Its Groove” by John Lorinc
(<a href="http://funkaoshi.com">via</a>)
toronto  cities 
october 2011 by dsankey
Toronto News: Council rebellion could halt Ford revolution
Ford's plummeting popularity means he could lose the supporters on council he has relied on so far. Let's hope.
toronto  politics  cities 
september 2011 by dsankey
From $350 million surplus to $774 million deficit in one Ford year
on Ford scare-math. In 2010, Toronto was facing an $821-million deficit, but finished with a $310-million surplus.
toronto  cities 
september 2011 by dsankey
Gordon Graff Demonstrates That Vertical Farms Can Actually Work
cool image: a skyscraper that is half covered in plants
environment  ideas  cities 
august 2011 by dsankey
Jarvis bike lanes to be eliminated
the first year in Toronto's history to yield a net loss in bike lanes
bike  toronto  cities  canada  politics 
july 2011 by dsankey
In Situ
an interactive doc about urban artists (<a href="http://popupcity.net/">via</a>)
film  documentary  art  cities 
july 2011 by dsankey
Real Life Like Button
cities  ideas  web 
june 2011 by dsankey
Easy Riding: Low-Stress Bike Lanes for Toronto
campaign from the Bike Union
bike  toronto  canada  cities 
june 2011 by dsankey
Winnipeg rethinks suburban sprawl with downtown reinvention
"Around the world there is a growing understanding that suburban sprawl is unsustainable, and that, for cities to survive, they must shrink back in on themselves, tightening up, promoting density and pushing their growing population into space already served by existing infrastructure and social services."
cities  canada 
may 2011 by dsankey
Dynamite Wildflower Guerrillas
"a journal written in seeds" (via <a href="http://brokencitylab.org">BCL</a>)
art  gardening  cities 
may 2011 by dsankey
Hybrid Urban Games And #Tahrir Square
The Pop-Up City on some developments in augmented reality
games  ideas  cities 
february 2011 by dsankey
Detroitism
excellent essay examining the discourse around Detroit: ruin porn, "the lament", etc.
art  detroit  cities 
february 2011 by dsankey
Art's new dawn in Detroit
TorStar looks at the Detroit art scene, includes mention of BCL in Windsor.
bcl  detroit  art  cities  from instapaper
january 2011 by dsankey
Richard Florida’s Monorail
"I've sold The Creative Class to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook, and by gum it put them on the map!"
cities  ideas  comedy 
december 2010 by dsankey
Spin A Yarn, Granny!
about the growth of yarn bombing. I've seen it in Windsor, but not Toronto yet.
Cities  graffiti  art 
november 2010 by dsankey
How to Shrink a City
Details of, and ideas for, Detroit's plan to sensibly shrink itself. The plan involves renaturalized zones, urban farming, and light rail. "The best way to predict the future is to create it."
detroit  cities  future 
november 2010 by dsankey
16 pedestrians hit by cars in 48 hours, no thanks to weather
also 'due to people wearing darker clothing and “pedestrians often keep their head down to fare the elements.”' So it's the weather and the pedestrians' fault, got it.
toronto  cities  car 
november 2010 by dsankey
Toronto streets to be living movie set
imitation New York, Chicago and London neighbourhoods that people will actually live in. Next we will replace the CN Tower with a replica statue of liberty.
toronto  simulacrum  cities  film  ideas 
november 2010 by dsankey
Nail Houses And The Stay-Down City
nail houses are a Chinese phenomenon that occur when a homeowner refuses to leave in the face of a large scale development. Great photos.
cities  photo 
november 2010 by dsankey
Mobile Homestead by Mike Kelley launches in Detroit / e-flux
Mobile Homestead enacts a reversal of the 'white flight' that took place in Detroit following the inner city race riots of the 1960s.
art  detroit  cities 
september 2010 by dsankey
Detroit Lives
It's a strange time when a boot company covers an issue better than any media source. A three part doc where Johnny Knoxville tours some sites in Detroit, showing the hopeful creative development going on as well as the fabulous ruins.
Detroit  cities  documentary  film 
september 2010 by dsankey
The end of a shift at GM, the end of an era in Windsor
windsor  business  economics  cities  car 
july 2010 by dsankey
A Conversation with Dawin Meckel
who did a photo series of Detroit that stayed away from the ruin porn. (via <a href="http://funkaoshi.com/">Funkaoshi</a>
photo  detroit  cities 
july 2010 by dsankey
Storefront Success Stories and Free Gazpacho
Tom's writeup of recent events at SRSI.
windsor  cities 
july 2010 by dsankey
How to Make an American Job Before It's Too Late
looks at the decline of US manufacturing from the point of view of Silicon Valley. Obviously related to the shrinking cities kick I've been on lately: the cities shrinking are the industrial centers, and the jobs have moved to Asia. There is something cruel about the idea of a North American economy with no manufacturing ("we used to make shit in this town" - The Wire). via <a href="http://funkaoshi.com>Funkaoshi</a>
economics  business  china  usa  cities 
july 2010 by dsankey
When Less Is More: Eastern German Project Provides Hope for Shrinking Cities
City Islands: "Buildings will be cut out and in the empty spaces we will insert countryside"
cities  windsor  ideas 
july 2010 by dsankey
Shrinking of cities catches traction
"The reinvention starts by recognizing the city's dramatic loss of population and deciding to consciously and intelligently shrink."
cities  ideas  windsor 
july 2010 by dsankey
Buffalo, You Are Not Alone
"We can’t have a truly prosperous and sustainable America with only a dozen or so superstar cities that renew themselves from age to age while others bloom like a flower for a season, then wither away." (via <a href="http://www.scaledown.ca/">Scaledown</a>)
windsor  detroit  cities 
june 2010 by dsankey
Shrinking Cities - Global Map Animation
video  cities  world  windsor 
june 2010 by dsankey
Cities for People — Alexandra Park
A look at the fascinating housing co-op between Bathurst, Dundas, Spadina & Queen in Toronto. I used to live right on the border. Written by students taking Shawn Micallef's class at OCAD.
toronto  cities 
june 2010 by dsankey
Feds Deem Pedestrians, Cyclists and Motorists Equals
Obama's Transportation Secretary, a Republican, has turned out to be supportive of bikes and pedestrians.
bike  politics  usa  cities 
march 2010 by dsankey
The Ice House, Detroit
art installation with abandoned house
detroit  art  architecture  cities 
february 2010 by dsankey
Building a truly smarter car
"the best feature for avoiding accidents may be a spear embedded in the steering wheel, with the point directed toward the driver."
car  cities  tech 
january 2010 by dsankey
The Detroit Project | The New Republic
"A plan for solving America’s greatest urban disaster."
detroit  cities 
december 2009 by dsankey
Councillor Kelly wants your neighbourhood to look like Dundas Square
proposal to allow every billboard to be electronic.
toronto  cities  ads 
december 2009 by dsankey
Six Hand-Painted Signs
poor Detroit.
detroit  cities  photo 
november 2009 by dsankey
Just how sketchy is the Annex?
another neighbourhood in decline. Million-dollar homes, sushi, and shootings?
toronto  cities 
november 2009 by dsankey
Driving the Lane: Toronto Prepares for Public Bicycling
bike  toronto  cities 
november 2009 by dsankey
Detroit: Urban Laboratory and the New American Frontier
detroit  cities  economics 
november 2009 by dsankey
Projection & Battery Tests Around Downtown
Broken City Lab in Windsor tests out their projector for sending messages to Detroit
detroit  windsor  art  cities 
november 2009 by dsankey
How Detroit, the Motor City, turned into a ghost town
The Guardian's Big Detroit Article is a lot better than Time's was
detroit  cities  economics 
november 2009 by dsankey
Hume: Tolls might jolt drivers into reality - thestar.com
Toronto needs this. I've been driving a little more of late and it's ludicrous how bad the traffic has gotten (via funkaoshi.com)
toronto  canada  transit  cities 
october 2009 by dsankey
SOMETHING, SOMETHING, SOMETHING, DETROIT - Lazy Journalists Love Pictures of Abandoned Stuff
missed this when it first came out
detroit  journalism  photo  cities 
october 2009 by dsankey
An open letter to Time Inc. on the occasion of the first article reflecting your yearlong commitment in Detroit « The Boggs Blog
deep responses
detroit  cities  usa  ideas 
october 2009 by dsankey
Detroit's Future: Will Once Great American City Recover? -- TIME
far too brief and pretty middle-of-the-road, but the first result of Time's year-long commitment to covering Detroit. Strange fact: this author invented fantasy baseball
detroit  usa  cities 
october 2009 by dsankey
The Dangly Truck
a situation that would not occur in Toronto
detroit  cities  graffiti 
september 2009 by dsankey
Jeff Brouws - “It Don’t Exist”, The Impact of Sprawl and Suburban Build-out on Inner City America (2009)
usa  ideas  cities  detroit 
august 2009 by dsankey
US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive - Telegraph
cities  usa  economics  detroit 
july 2009 by dsankey
Detroit: Arsenal of Creativity « The Boggs Blog
question is (in my mind): are there enough jobs in the local "creative economy" to support a city? How about all cities? (seeing as this is a form of the Richard Florida formula that's prescribed to every city nowadays)
ideas  economics  detroit  cities 
may 2009 by dsankey
Resurrection City, Sojourners Magazine/May 2009
optimistic but nonetheless fascinating vision of Detroit as "the Cuba of the rust belt"
detroit  cities  economics  environment 
may 2009 by dsankey
Artists Fight Urban Blight: Casualty of the Recession? « Clyde Fitch Report
has to do with Detroit, artists, gentrification, and Richard Florida
detroit  ideas  cities 
may 2009 by dsankey
Euro Invasion Retreats
a week in Detroit through the eyes of Mitch Cope, one of the artists featured in the recent news pieces about $100 houses in Detroit
detroit  cities  art 
april 2009 by dsankey
Perceptions of Broken Windows Are a Function of Community Race and Class Composition | American Sociological Association
sociology  crime  cities 
april 2009 by dsankey
Aaron Pilat - Post 1: What can Detroit Learn from Rome?
detroit  architecture  history  cities 
april 2009 by dsankey
Exploring Detroit's beautiful ruins. - By Witold Rybczynski - Slate Magazine
architecture  cities  detroit 
march 2009 by dsankey
Detroit UnReal Estate Agency
art  blog  architecture  detroit  cities 
march 2009 by dsankey
Op-Ed Contributor - For Sale - The $100 House - NYTimes.com
people moving back into Detroit. hmmm.
detroit  cities  usa 
march 2009 by dsankey
Detroit's woes go beyond auto industry - Economy in Turmoil- msnbc.com
December article on how the recession has made things even worse in Detroit - even though that barely seemed possible.
cities  detroit 
march 2009 by dsankey
Saving the Suburbs, Part 2 - Allison Arieff Blog - NYTimes.com
design  architecture  cities 
february 2009 by dsankey
Broken Detroit: Death of a city block
I'm still fascinated by Detroit's return to nature. Here are some great articles about it from the POV of one city block
history  economics  detroit  cities 
january 2009 by dsankey

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