Pinboard: bookmarks for sstrudeau tagged 'urban'

Home - Fire Escape Farms
planters garden container planter containers balcony terrace urban
may 2011 by sstrudeau

How Cul-de-Sacs Are Killing Your Community » INFRASTRUCTURIST
planning cul-de-sacs urban cities streets grid
may 2010 by sstrudeau

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Internet Archive: Free Download: Detroit: City on the Move
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may 2009 by sstrudeau

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BBC NEWS | Americas | Urban farming takes root in Detroit

"From Motown to Growtown"

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july 2008 by sstrudeau

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Questions for Enrique Peñalosa - Man With a Plan - Questions for Enrique Peñalosa - Mayors - Bogotá, Colombia - NYTimes.com

This guy lead some great urban/transit planning innovations and improvements in Bogota: "when you construct a good sidewalk, you are constructing democracy."

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june 2008 by sstrudeau

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Highway demolition, Milwaukee, Park East Freeway

We need tear down more highways in areas with good urban bones.

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may 2008 by sstrudeau

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Job Opportunities | Transportation Alternatives

I didn't think there was such a thing as an urban planning job that was actually desireable

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march 2008 by sstrudeau

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Streetsblog » Disney’s Highway to Hell

Disney's vision of the autocentric future

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january 2008 by sstrudeau

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Parking fines a big cost for delivery firms - U.S. business- msnbc.com

"UPS, FedEx and other commercial delivery companies pay a steep price for doing business in New York City, getting an average of 7,000 parking tickets every day and paying more than $102 million in fines in the city’s latest budget year."

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december 2007 by sstrudeau

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alleys with names | two fell swoops

I love alleys and this is one of my faves.

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december 2007 by sstrudeau

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YouTube - HERE COME ''Da JUDGE

Judge Woodward returns to Detroit and gets lost trying to navigate using his own map of the city.

via:ypsidixit woodward detroit animation cartoon video urban design planning map navigation lost michigan
november 2007 by sstrudeau

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suburbs vs. cities | varnelis.net

"[Jacob's] defense of Greenwich Village not only saved that community, it made it impossible for anyone with a working-class income to live there."

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october 2007 by sstrudeau

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Veritas et Venustas: Good Modernism Is More Difficult Than Good Traditional Design

Modernisms (in architeceture) high value on novelty is bad for cities; architecture of object vs. architecture of place

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october 2007 by sstrudeau

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Return of the rentier city - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog

Krugman posts about how cities like London and New York are becoming "rentier" cities -- places where the rich live off of income generated elsewhere

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october 2007 by sstrudeau

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LOST Magazine - 323 Prospect Place

Nice historic investigation into why this property sits at such a weird lot angle in Prospect Heights

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september 2007 by sstrudeau

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meatpaper • articles

on meat, food and cities

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september 2007 by sstrudeau

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Robert Moses' Response to Robert Caro's The Power Broker

Almost done with the Power Broker; almost time to read this

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august 2007 by sstrudeau

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The Ground Floor: Is Gentrification Good?

"gentrification usually works by creating new housing, and replacing the type of people who move into the neighborhood. So, as the poor move out for a variety of reasons not related to cost, higher-income folks move in. Also, vacant buildings are rehabbed

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august 2007 by sstrudeau

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The Vertical Farm Project - Agriculture for the 21st Century and Beyond...
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june 2007 by sstrudeau

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BBC NEWS | Americas | Vertical farming in the big Apple

The idea: greenhouses stacked into a skyscraper to raise crops locally

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june 2007 by sstrudeau

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OpinionJournal - Featured Article (Great overview of American demographic shifts)

Americans [...] in very large numbers [are] moving out of our largest metro areas. They're fleeing hip Boston and San Francisco, and after eight decades of moving to Washington they're moving out. [...] High housing costs, high taxes, a distaste in some

via:kottke cities planning demographics population USA immigration detroit newyork nyc migration US urban
may 2007 by sstrudeau

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Project for Public Spaces (PPS) - Placemaking for Communities - What Makes a Place Great

Three things that make public spaces great (or lack thereof make not-so-great)

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may 2007 by sstrudeau

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Saginaw - a photoset on Flickr
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january 2007 by sstrudeau

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Troika | art and design studio | london | Sms Guerrilla Projector

Nice take on the whole "send a text message to a projector/display" thing -- this one is portable and looks like a rocket launcher!

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january 2007 by sstrudeau

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ann arbor is overrated. » Blog Archive » Six-Story Buildings Are Not Healthy For Elks and Other Living Things

Why are people so terrified of "tall" buildings?? Why?!

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december 2006 by sstrudeau

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detroitblog

Best Devil's Night description ever: "[a] sort of grass-roots urban renewal in which empty structures were made to go away through the persistent application of fire."

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november 2006 by sstrudeau

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Curbed: Parking Squat Day: Now in Midtown

NYC midtown parking spot squat - turn a metered parking space into a temporary park

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september 2006 by sstrudeau

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A taste of honey - Urban beekeeping may already be buzzing in a neighborhood near you

this article says beekeeping is prohibited in NYC yet I know there are many hives. I'd like to start one. And make mead.

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september 2006 by sstrudeau

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PANG

Andres' video ... ghostly sperm flying around NYC

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june 2006 by sstrudeau

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WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: America 2050: Planning Megalopolis
city urban regional planning
april 2006 by sstrudeau

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~INTERACTIVE CITY~
city cities urban interactive festival conference space via:vielmetti
march 2006 by sstrudeau

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the Observer & Eccentric Newspapers, Mirror Newspapers and Hometown Weeklies in - www.hometownlife.com - Michigan

I like this idea. A lot. Especially if there is lots of cheap office/conference/hotel/residential space EASILY and CHEAPLY accessible to the airport. Could make this area a hub of residence for folks who do work that requires occasional travel with most

detroit planning airport urban
february 2006 by sstrudeau

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