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if this actually gets built out like it ought to be, that will be tremendously great for the city. the 30/10 plan would speed up delivery of most of this rail from mid 2030s to mid 2010s. a huge difference. like whether it happens at all or whether the city is condemned to even worse miserable poverty.

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september 2010 by jannon

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artnet.com Magazine Features - the prophet (1998)

schjeldahl on tony smith as a sculptural inflection on the massive infrastructural transition of postwar car culture

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august 2010 by jannon

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Booster Station Zuid | GROUP A

"Booster Station-Zuid in Amsterdam is primarily a utility building which contains a technical plant, a pumping-engine for sluicing out sewage. The location in the public realm asks for a careful design, especially because Booster is located next to a busy traffic junction, where elevated metro lines, railways, roads and motorways intersect. The building can be seen as a metaphorical reference to a streamlined engine. The clinging, aerodynamic skin forms an envelope for the buildings technical program. It also emphasises the relation between form and function the building reveals its ducts. The constant stream of passengers by car, metro, train or bicycle perceive the Booster Station as a futuristic sculpture. With its cladding of stainless steel panels it reflects the movements, shapes and colours of the environment. At night the illuminated seams in the steal skin make the building look like a mesh-model. Mass turns into mesh."

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july 2010 by jannon

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Free, or really Free? « Squares of Wheat (2009)

"This other kind of free (like the software that runs this blog), the Anderson free, is certainly useful, but to confuse the two is to flatter businessmen and threaten the future of our culture."

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june 2010 by jannon

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HAUTE POP | open data doesn't empower communities | internet.artizans

"I’m inspired by the idea that nuggets of opened data could seed guerilla public services, plugging gaps left by government, but i don’t see any of that in the data.gov.uk apps list. The reasons aren’t technical but psychosocial - the people and communities who could use this data to help tackle their own disadvantage and marginalisation don’t have the self-confident sense of entitlement that makes for successful civic hacktivism. So why the big push behind open data and the lack of interest in enabling communities? i think the crude answer is ‘bread and circuses’. And anyway, opening up data is a technocrat friendly activity whereas empowering communities is messy and difficult. So we’ll continue to be told that we can improve public services and create future economic growth by linking data rather than tackling power. …The real struggle, as ever, is on the terrain of meanings. Who will write the narrative that we inhabit? And how much does data actually help here?"

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june 2010 by jannon

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Bibliophile Porn: A Book Lover’s Tool For Getting Off On Stacks : Scout Magazine

note to self: more ammo for the idea about working w/ an architect or product designer to properly redesign a book-stall. (via danched)

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april 2010 by jannon

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Save The Library (Save LAPL)
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march 2010 by jannon

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Caltrans PeMS
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february 2010 by jannon

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City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks

the actual list!

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december 2009 by jannon

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Going Dutch « London Review Blog

more from the lrb's anonymous source on the royal mail strike context. also what the hell, freelance postmen?

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november 2009 by jannon

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The Road to Curitiba- New York Times (2007)

or a story of dictatorial green urbanism in one city. there's so much worth thinking about and researching further here.

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october 2009 by jannon

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BusRapidTransitExamples

disagree with argument being made for austin, value here is in visual examples of high-volume, high-convenience, rapid bus transit solutions.

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october 2009 by jannon

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The GOOD 100: Bulldozing Cities | GOOD

dan kildee of flint makes the city shrinkage argument again, this time to the hipsters at good magazine. note the response in the comments: "'So why is . . . [the idea that] Flint should shrink…creating such a stir?' Well, I’d say that it’s because you never took the idea to the citizens. It wasn’t the Land Bank’s fault that the ‘cat was let out of the bag,’ but it is the Land Bank’s fault for stoking the resulting hysteria. . . . You were inviting Rush Limbaugh to come to Flint to talk about the idea before you even bothered to ask the actual citizens living there. . . . because of the way this subject has been handled–a “process” that I’ve been completely dumbfounded by since the very beginning–it looks a lot like we’re now faced with a level of work that’s going to be on par with the sort of political pandering and lowest-common-denominator type thinking that’s put Flint in this position in the first place! I want better, and this city deserves better." (via danched)

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october 2009 by jannon

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LA River Revitalization Plan

quite obviously no time to read this yet

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october 2009 by jannon

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City of Los Angeles :: Los Angeles River Revitalization

I was driving past some of this along the railroad tracks and such along san fernando near, of course of course, glassell park the other day. also it appears that we might someday not have a concrete river--this is basically a good thing, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who will miss the sublime aspect to an extent.

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october 2009 by jannon

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Finsbury Health Centre - the demise of an ideal and the failure to plan » Willie Miller Urban Design

more sad news & comments on the finsbury health centre sell-off.

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october 2009 by jannon

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sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy: Finsbury: the final insult

read this one awhile ago, but forgot to save it. also, title still appropriate given news from past week or so. and as far as propaganda roughly along the rhetorical lines of "this is what we fight the wars for--to save this," it's a hell of a lot more appealing as a vision than oxford, academia, museums, "culture," et effing cet. I mean, a better life for everyone, via totes nice infrastructure accessible to everyone: um yes please.

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october 2009 by jannon

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In Old Woolworth Pool, Sign of the Luxe Life - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com (2008)

a swimming pool in the basement of the woolworth building

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september 2009 by jannon

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Regional Plan Association

founded in the 1920s, advocates of the Moynihan Station plan, "smart growth," et cetera--well, at least they've helped advocate for regional rail networks like njtransit for a long time, as limited as that system is, if you don't live directly on it, et cetera et cetera

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september 2009 by jannon

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Two more L.A. water mains burst overnight, bringing more questions | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

so we have a drought, we have the lowest municipal water usage in 32 years, we just had a major fire, and now ancient pipes are bursting all over the city. mystery = lack of comprehension of patterns of occurrence.

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september 2009 by jannon

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Socialism and/or barbarism: Pseudo. New. Urban. Living. (vs. TVA modernism) (May 2009)

suppose I shouldn't feel surprised by this take on the tva. oh personal history, how you inflect on all things.

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september 2009 by jannon

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Auf Sparkurs in Chaos: Wie die Berliner S-Bahn ins Verderben fuhr - Nachrichten news - WELT ONLINE

how the berliner s-bahn has been systematically undermined by cost savings in order to extract profits in advance of an anticipated and government-encouraged ipo of its parent the deutsche bahn. the offensiveness of term "going public" being applied to the privatization of public infrastructure is pretty extreme and obscene.

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september 2009 by jannon

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The New York Times > Business > Image > Data Use by iPhones Strains U.S. Network

comparison with room shown in "WarGames" passed on by andy

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september 2009 by jannon

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Material History « Larval Subjects .

a good account of why braudel is worth reading, plus an attempt to tie this to the author's philosophical project. (via danched)

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september 2009 by jannon

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Google Book Search? Try Google Library | Relevant Results - CNET News

"Many are concerned that the settlement gives a private organization the sole right to essentially create and control a public good--a digital library--without explicit responsibilities to maintain that public good outlined in the settlement."

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august 2009 by jannon

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What is Bike Friendly? : TreeHugger (2007)

some infrastructural basics: "So, to be bike-friendly takes more than painting a bike lane down the road and not even punishing drivers who plough through it. It takes lanes with physical barriers between it and the road, it takes shops who cater for, rather than punish, those who leave cycles outside. And it takes a government who protects cyclists, and punishes drivers who put them in jeopardy."

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august 2009 by jannon

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Data Confirms Cycling On the Rise in New York City : TreeHugger (2008)
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august 2009 by jannon

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Villaraigosa says local governments should unite in effort to finish Westside subway [Updated] | L.A. Now | Los Angeles Times

now that he's dealing with the idea that he screwed up his chance to run for governor, I guess he's trying to rebuild his local legacy. at least that's something. also, yes, what the hell, subway along wilshire must get past westwood before 2036! (of course, this and other things would be easier if we could draw on the beverly hills taxbase directly and not have to put up with their intransigence or that of other such islands of smugness and wealth . . . always always about where you draw the boundaries of the polity, isn't it?)

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august 2009 by jannon

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An interactive map of California stimulus projects

apparently siskiyou is getting zippo; also there should be a map for where all the state budget cuts are as an overlay--like in red.

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july 2009 by jannon

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McCain hates your bikelane
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july 2009 by jannon

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Bedürfnisanstalten [1] | Lueger, Otto: Lexikon der gesamten Technik und ihrer Hilfswissenschaften, Bd. 1 Stuttgart, Leipzig 1904., S. 641-652. - Zeno.org
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july 2009 by jannon

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Water demand in Los Angeles reaches a 32-year low, DWP says - Los Angeles Times

fails to mention any connection with the amount of current rental vacancy--not everything is about virtuously not watering your lawn--my guess is that at least part of this statistic is related to what I perceive to be a concurrent drop in actual population. my perception is entirely anecdotal, but I'd be curious to see what the real stats show.

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july 2009 by jannon

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Sale of Former Donnell Library Is Back on Track - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com
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july 2009 by jannon

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ReBurbia

interesting contrast to harvey's right to the city

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july 2009 by jannon

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