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Detroit looks at downsizing to save city - Washington Times
"Near downtown, fruit trees and vegetable farms would replace neighborhoods that are an eerie landscape of empty buildings and vacant lots. Suburban commuters heading into the city center might pass through what looks like the countryside to get there. Surviving neighborhoods in the birthplace of the auto industry would become pockets in expanses of green."
news  politics  usa  urbanism  urbandecay  cities  agriculture  interesting 
march 2010 by milkmiruku
New York’s High Line Park in the Sky Opens Today!
"An elevated park in the sky built on top of the skeleton of an old rail system? It may have sounded impossible only five years ago, but today, the eagerly awaited High Line elevated urban park officially opens for thousands of New Yorkers looking to escape the hubbub of the city below! "
usa  urbanism  design  architecture  travel  environment  newyork  interesting  images 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
Inscribed in the living tile: Type in the Toronto subway (Joe Clark)
"The Toronto subway has a typographic heritage all its own, starting with a unique font. But, with renovation after renovation and after a series of new station additions, signage and wayfinding in the system are a total mess."
aesthetics  architecture  design  typography  history  canada  underground  modernism  transport  article  urbanism 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
train
"Ongoing research into the language and aesthetics of mobility, which aims to build a mobile transportation unit that moves along a disused railway track."
transport  urbanism  images  interesting  art 
january 2007 by milkmiruku
A Daily Dose of Architecture: Half Dose #30: Urban Cactus
"Due to its siting at the end of harbor, the architects chose to conceptualize the project as belonging to the "green nerve" rather than the surrounding urban structure."
architecture  design  urbanism  cool  garden  nature  weird  housing  cactus 
december 2006 by milkmiruku
Norton
The definition of a 'feral city'.
article  sociology  politics  culture  war  urbanism  prediction 
september 2006 by milkmiruku
Digitally Distributed Environments
A blog on 3D representations of urban environments.
architecture  blog  urbanism  photography  mapping  london  google  design 
july 2006 by milkmiruku
Wired News: LED Architecture
LEDs are reinventing the look and feel of skylines, bridges, facades and other architectural surfaces around the globe.
architecture  led  urbanism  photos  electronics  design  technology  geek 
june 2006 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Viewpoints: The urban world in 2050
Opinions on what the cities and society will be like in 2050.
society  technology  prediction  urbanism 
june 2006 by milkmiruku

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