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The Electoral Map - Presidential Race Ratings and Swing States - Election 2012 - NYTimes.com
NYT abandons geography for this season's choose-your-own-adventure electoral college picker. Not sure how I feel about it.
usa  electoral  news  map 
23 days ago by fakeisthenewreal
Los Angeles River Tries on New Role, as Waterway - NYTimes.com
Kayaking on the LA River.
news  waterway  la  river 
august 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
New Numbers, and Geography, for Gay Couples - NYTimes.com
"Rehoboth, he likes to say, used to be an island of tolerance in a sea of homophobia, and now is an island of tolerance in a sea of outlet malls." (ha)
news  demography  census  usa 
august 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Finding the Potential in Vacant Lots - In the Garden - NYTimes.com
fenced.lots  via:kio  news  writing  vacant  ecology 
august 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Digital Diary: Is Anonymity Dead? - NYTimes.com
But his lack of digital presence unsettled her, so much so that she considered canceling her date with him.
news  online  social  via:doingitwrong 
june 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Living With Mies - NYTimes.com
Detroit is not all ruin porn. Mies van der Rohe's Lafayette Park is amazing. Saw it for the first time Saturday.
news  detroit  architecture  from twitter_favs
june 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Osama is dead — and so is her silent protest • The Brooklyn Paper
brooklyn  news  redhook  from twitter
may 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
On Stones in Japan, Tsunami Warnings — Aneyoshi Journal - NYTimes.com
memory  news  japan  geology 
april 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
In New York Area, No Shortage of Grisly Dumping Grounds - NYTimes.com
"There’s two maps of New York overlapping here. The map of places that are somehow forgotten and beautifully mysterious, and the map of people that are forgotten."
nyc  news  death  urban  landscape 
april 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Feral chickens have proliferated in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina | NOLA.com
new.orleans  animal  news  urban 
april 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census - NYTimes.com
NYT, as always, has beautiful census maps up the day after the data is released.
census  map  news  usa 
march 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
It’s a bird, it’s a copter, it’s a zoning violation! City vows to cite Gert Town helipad | TheLensNola.org : Investigative Journalism New Orleans
Man opens heliport on residential land in new Orleans. Plans to expand and open an aviation school.
new.orleans  flight  zoning  news 
february 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Bike Riders in New York Win $965,000 in Settlement - NYTimes.com
The city agreed on Monday to pay nearly $1 million to participants in the monthly Critical Mass bicycle rides who claimed they had been wrongly detained and arrested by police officers.
news  nyc  bike  law 
october 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
Elastic City’s Conceptual Walks and Living Theater - NYTimes.com
"The two walks took in Brooklyn — “Centroids and Asphalt” in Bushwick and “Brighton Zaum” in Brighton Beach — sought to retune antennae, to look below the surface and beyond the obvious. And like all good (and bad) living theater, they were participatory, if gently so."
news  re:fitnr  walk  art  nyc 
september 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
Study Finds Activity in Brain That Seems to Be Shut Down - NYTimes.com
"That would seriously put Descartes before the horse"
news  brain  medicine 
february 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
Artists flocking to Newark for room to live, work and grow
"But, despite the art scene’s growing visibility, galleries and artists said sales are slow. “We don’t really have collectors that come here and spend the money that they do in New York,” Craig said."
newark  nj  news  art 
december 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
the-lensnola.org - A fledgling New Orleans Web site seeks to be a model for how to preserve investigative journalism - News & Views - Gambit - New Orleans
"The Lens, a Web site centered on New Orleans, hopes to become part of a new model for investigative reporting. It is regionally based and is trying to take up and expand in-depth reporting, which many newspapers have cut back on due to dwindling profits and staff cuts. It's an attempt to solve the question: With so much access to free information through the Internet, why would anyone want to pay for journalism?"
new.orleans  news  journalism  known  web 
december 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Government Offers Data to Miners - NYTimes.com
run down of gov't data sharing and new apps that run off of it.
data  news  urban  development  gov 
december 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Zoning the Sustainable City | The New York Observer
zoning  planning  urban  nyc  news 
november 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Chief Factor in Mayor’s Race - Bloomberg Influence - NYTimes.com
Great post-mortem of the '09 mayoral race: " By August, Mr. Thompson’s advertising team had stopped trying to track the mayor’s television and radio spending, standard practice in a campaign, telling colleagues it was too depressing" / "At times, the Bloomberg campaign, waging what they proudly saw as a presidential-level operation, seemed puzzled by the poorly financed, sometimes loosely disciplined Thompson effort. The candidate’s daily schedule was curiously light, and easy opportunities to score political points were neglected."
nyc  news  politics  election 
november 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Changing Skyline: Francisville face-off on urban design | Philadelphia Inquirer | 07/24/2009
"In one corner, there's the Kensington-based, guerrilla design collective called Onion Flats, known for infiltrating the city with housing that is as sustainable as it is stylish. They're facing tough competition from a partnership between New Urbanist acolyte Sam Sherman and the Hankin Group, a Chester County development company that wants to give up its suburban ways."
housing  philadelphia  development  news 
july 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
A Paris Plan, Less Grand Than Gritty - The New York Times
Sarkozy abandons local govt restructuring and grand planning schemes, goes for transport infrastructure.
paris  planning  urban  france  news 
june 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Plan to Make Gowanus Canal a Superfund Site Draws Opposition - NYTimes.com
"“To market residential units at a Superfund site is virtually impossible,” [a Toll Brothers rep] said."
news  gowanus  fuckers  nyc  pollution 
april 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
That’s What You Call Investing for the Long Term - NYTimes.com
Bonds issued in 1868 still active, millions in interest paid on $70,000 debt. Money erases time.
news  nyc  money  fictional_capital 
february 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
To Avert Blight, City Will Repair and Resell Vacant Homes - NYTimes.com
City will spend $24m on 115 homes, private NP will repair and resell to families making $80-$90K a year. $208,000 a unit seems high - does the city get a slice of the revenue? Who's financing and underwriting the loans? Also- drop in the bucket, given 15-20,000 foreclosures annually for 2007-present
nyc  housing  finance  news  dealing_with_collapse 
january 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
In ''eat local'' movement, Cuba is years ahead
Urban farming doing well in Cuba. In other news, a poor country with high unemployment and poor agricultural production turns to gardening to feed itself.
food  cuba  urban  news 
december 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
At the Museum of the City of New York, Ray Mortenson’s Photos of the Burned Out South Bronx - NYTimes.com
bronx  nyc  photography  news 
december 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Exit Polls - Election Results 2008 - The New York Times
Shiny exit poll visualization goodness
electoral  usa  news  visualization 
november 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Studs Terkel dies
My sadness is so very real. Goodbye, Studs.
death  news  chicago  take_it_easy_but_take_it 
october 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Tribune endorsement: Barack Obama for president
Col. McCormick is surely freezing down there in hell.
news  politics  chicago 
october 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Containers Wall Off a Newark Housing Project - New York Times
"But about 15 years ago the housing authority, a troubled agency that barely avoided a takeover by the federal government in 2005, leased the gritty three-acre recreation area to a private container storage company. What once was a baseball field is now an expanse littered with shards of glass. And a patch of open space that allowed residents to look out on the river now provides a view of ripped and rusted cargo containers."
newark  ironbound  housing  new.jersey  news 
october 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Massachusetts Proposal Would Repeal Income Tax - NYTimes.com
Ballot question in MA this fall on repealing the income tax! Taxachusetts no more?
taxation  massachusetts  news 
september 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
An Interactive Look at Post-Katrina Recovery - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
graph  map  visualization  new.orleans  katrina  news 
august 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
CHA museum moving forward -- Chicago Tribune
Best news from the western front of gentrification in quite a while: "The National Public Housing Museum would be built in a 70-year-old, vacant building at 1322-24 W. Taylor St., the last remaining building from the Depression-era Jane Addams Homes."
chicago  planning  known  urban  housing  museum  news 
august 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Detractors Grudgingly Find Perks to the New Ikea Store in Red Hook, Brooklyn - NYTimes.com
uh, Red Hook has more than a "little green space."
redhook  brooklyn  news 
august 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization - New York Times
Transport gets more expensive -> production moves closer to consumption
news  economics  transport  energy  geography  consumption  globalization_cracks_up 
august 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Council bans new fast-food outlets in South L.A. - Los Angeles Times
Food zoning for health reasons in South Central. Great for existing fast food joints. "The councilwoman said she expected city officials to come up with financial assistance for some restaurants."
la  zoning  urban  planning  food  crackpot  news 
august 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
'Major Discovery' Primed To Unleash Solar Revolution: Scientists Mimic Essence Of Plants' Energy Storage System
"Requiring nothing but abundant, non-toxic natural materials, this discovery could unlock the most potent, carbon-free energy source of all: the sun... Developed a process that uses the sun's energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases. Later, the oxygen and hydrogen may be recombined inside a fuel cell, creating carbon-free electricity to power your house or your electric car, day or night."
energy  solar  science  technology  news 
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Tear Down HUD, and Build a Better, Broader Urban Policy by Sudhir Venkatesh- New York Times
Proposal to shift housing to Commerce/Treasury and turn HUD's attn to promoting regional cooperation. Federal coordination of land-use policy was aborted back in the early 70's, maybe it's time to bring it back?
federal  urban  news  chicago  planning  usa 
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Boston's neighborhood newspapers | The Alliance for Community Journalism
utterly non-exhaustive list of local papers in the Boston area
media  news  archive  boston 
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Designer Cities: The Development Of the Superstar Urban Plan - WSJ.com
"Being trained to develop unusual or extraordinary buildings is not the best preparation you can have [to plan cities]" -Richard Sennett
urban  planning  via:javierarbona  news  architecture  design 
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
A State That Never Was in Wyoming - New York Times
On the would-be state of Absaroka on the WY-SD-MT border.
fictional_states  usa  wyoming  news 
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
A Painfully Early Arrival for Jellyfish - NYTimes.com
jellyfish rampant!
news  nyc  ocean  biology  ecology 
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
We All Pay for Leona Helmsley’s Bequest to Dogs - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Pleasant little op-ed about limiting tax-deductions for charitable bequests. This is the best part:
"Ray D. Madoff, a professor at Boston College Law School, is writing a book on immortality and the law."
news  writing  law  money  policy 
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Video: On the Waterboard: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
Christopher Hitchens being waterboarded. Disturbing.
torture  video  news 
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Can Weeds Help Solve the Climate Crisis? - Global Warming - Environment - NYTimes.com
rural / urban test plots: "ecology on amphetamines ... domination by invasive weed trees: ailanthus, Norway maples and mulberries. [After] five years ... the biggest ailanthus in the rural test site measured about five feet tall. The city site boasted a 2
news  environment  urban  landscape  ailanthus 
june 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Life on the fringes of U.S. suburbia becomes untenable with rising gas costs
data point.
news  urban  housing  economics  planning  end_of_rome 
june 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Myanmar’s New Capital Isolates Junta - New York Times
More dirt on Naypidaw, the new Burmese capital. Organized "like the Yellow Pages ... Ave for hotels, area for restaurants... color coded apts." 1 mil. residents, 2700 sq mi. Yeah right. I look forward to picking over the ruin someday soon.
burma  urban  planning  social_control  military-industrial  news 
june 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
He pushed limits of architecture - Chicago Tribune June 16, 2008
Walter A. Netsch Jr. 1920 – 2008. Architect of UIC, Air Force Academy, Regenstein Library, Inland Steel Building.
architecture  death  person  news 
june 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Cellphone Tracking Study Shows We’re Creatures of Habit - NYTimes.com
People stick to their routines. Also, you have no privacy.
urban  social  space  technology  news 
june 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Moles Wanted - City Pages (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
FBI looking for informants to attend "vegan pot-lucks" and report on plans for RNC protests.
activism  politics  minnesota  news  social_control  the_sadness 
may 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Disappearing Foods: Encouraging a Comeback - The New York Times
towards a map of indigenous foodways in US.
map  usa  news  food 
may 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Israel’s Unexpected Spinoff From a Holocaust Trial - New York Times
"Stalags, pornographic Hebrew books that mix Nazism, sex and violence"
bizarre  israel  writing  news 
april 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Cambridge Journal ; On Streets and Squares, Hail to Good Neighbors - New York Times
"There is a faction of the city that wants to make sure people will remember, a feeling among old-time residents that the time has come to mark their territory" [1997-12-29]
cambridge  memory  urban  space  via:kanarinka  news 
april 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
S.F.'s public (and not-so-public) open spaces
John King looks at SF's POPs. Includes panoramas.
sf  architecture  urban  space  news 
april 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
FOLLOWING UP - New York Times
2003 follow up on Patrick Daly case
news  crime  redhook 
april 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Maximum Terms for 2 Youths in Red Hook Murder - New York Times
July 7, 1993 -- "Two teen-agers convicted of killing Patrick Daly, the elementary school principal caught in crossfire at a Brooklyn housing project, were sentenced to the maximum prison term of 25 years to life yesterday, after Mr. Daly's widow told of t
redhook  crime  news 
april 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Tree of Heaven Takes Leave of This World - New York Times
Ailanthus gone at the Noguchi
nyc  news  ailanthus 
march 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Report Urges Changes in Teaching Math - New York Times
'Just as “plastics” was the catchword in the 1967 movie “The Graduate,” the catchword for math teachers today should be “fractions,”'
math  news  education 
march 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Tracing Shadows - New York Times
smith st. chalk drawings
brooklyn  art  news  graffiti 
february 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
"Agriculture in the United States — much of which now serves the demand for meat — contributes to nearly 3/4 of all water-quality problems in the nation’s rivers and streams, according to the EPA."
news  farm  food  usa  environment 
january 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Christmas letter's 'fiance' item has a false ring to it
hahaha
a_gray_veil  advice  news 
january 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Court Ruling on Protests Curbs Malls in California
<<“A shopping mall is a public forum in which persons may reasonably exercise their right to free speech,” Justice Carlos R. Moreno wrote in the majority opinion.>> Victor Gruen is smiling.
mall  usa  social_control  song_of_the_corporates  news 
december 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
San Francisco Bay Guardian : Article : Green City: Reaching critical mass
bike  sf  news 
december 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Antioch subdivision like 'ghost town' after developer goes bankrupt
Exurban crunch: "windows covered only by tarps that can be heard flapping in the wind; coyotes and raccoons seem to have taken up residence."
chicago  news  end_of_rome  development 
december 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Brazilians Giving Up Their American Dream
immigration  nyc  news  usa  end_of_rome 
december 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
The Somerville News
somerville  massachusetts  news  blog 
november 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Moment of silence mandated in Illinois schools / Chicago Tribune
Um, whatever. This will be just as observed as the mandated recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
illinois  stupid  religion  news 
october 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Sense of history, new tenants, and money enliven Dudley Square - The Boston Globe
roxbury  boston  news  corestudio1 
october 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Chicago Reader: The TIF Archive
archive back to '04. Not long enough, they're bashed TIFs since at least the late 90s.
real_estate  chicago  news  tif 
september 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Barnes Museum Chooses Architects / NYT
Tod Williams & Billie Tsein: “I’ve always felt architecture is more interesting than fine arts. You have these kinds of chains and ropes tied around you & you’re trying to figure out [how to be] free, but still tied."
philadelphia  architecture  news  architects_are_pompous 
september 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Judge strikes down Iowa's same-sex marriage law [chicagotribune]
Great news, but which candidates does it help/hurt? [Romney/Giuliani, probably]
iowa  law  news  marriage 
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Facebook Gets Personal With Ad Targeting Plan - WSJ.com
"New service would let advertisers [target] a much wider array of characteristics ... not only age, gender & location, but also details such as favorite activities and preferred music
advertising  facebook  social  news 
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
http://www.clevescene.com/2001-05-31/news/the-sporting-strife/print
things_google_reminds_you_of_unexpectedly  news  oberlin 
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
What’s Good for a Business Can Be Hard on Friends - New York Times
commidify your social network
news  technology  social 
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Chicagoans Protest as Indiana Lets a Refinery Add to Lake Pollution - New York Times
54% more ammonia and 35% more 'suspended solids' to be dumped in Whiting. [this is why the Trib sucks; look at their front page every day, but read about this in the nyt]
chicago  environment  indiana  oil  pollution  news 
july 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
About-face on Cook County Hospital a victory for all preservationists -- chicagotribune.com
Great news, Cook County Hospital will be saved.
architecture  chicago  news 
july 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
The genes that build America: Piecing together the DNA jigsaw | Magazine | The Observer
Yes, virginia, race is a social construct.
race  usa  news  genealogy  history  viabldgblog 
july 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
How a Revolution Saved an Empire - New York Times
fairly effective Iraq/us war of independence parallel.
iraq  usa  history  news  war  end_of_rome  d-d-d-damn 
july 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
For a Master Class on Global Worship, It’s Destination Queens - New York Times
“We are concerned about humanism and heresies among people in Flushing”
flushing  queens  nyc  religion  news 
july 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
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