Pinboard: bookmarks for urbanscale tagged 'history'

Construction of Wacker Drive, 1925
chicago history
november 2011 by Urbanscale

Chicago History Museum, Online Resources
chicago history
november 2011 by Urbanscale

NYT: New Meter Is Said to Ease Parking, Once You Get Used to It (1999)
via:mayonissen parkingmeter parking nyc (nyc) citytickets moma technology history
march 2011 by Urbanscale

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Lapham’s Quarterly: City of Seeds

"... no native habitat but the street."

cities nature flora history urbanism trees
february 2011 by Urbanscale

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Goodbye, retro Métro - Arts & Culture - Montreal

"That do-do-dooo sound will now signal the closing of the doors. And, technology be damned, it’ll still be chunks of Quebec lumber [deep fried in peanut oil] slowing the things down at every station."

via:mayonissen publictransport metro subway canada montreal design emotion poetry history
february 2011 by Urbanscale

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How London buses are numbered - TfL come up trumps!
via:mayonissen history london transport publictransport bus busses
january 2011 by Urbanscale

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The Observer: Detroit in ruins
detroit cities usa photography urbanism industry history via:mayonissen
january 2011 by Urbanscale

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Strange Maps: "Go late!", a Night-Club Map of Harlem

"Nothing happens before 2 AM." Gorgeous. Via Mike Risher.

(nyc) history maps humangeography yes from delicious
august 2010 by Urbanscale

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The Fallout Shelter sign: An indelible Cold War symbol

Exemplary material history. Well, material-semiotic, I guess.

signage informationdesign culture history 1950s 1960s
may 2010 by Urbanscale

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Invincible Cities

Camilo José Vergara's astonishing series of photographs on post-industrial cities. Awful interaction design, but worth it for things like, particularly, this image of trees growing inside Camden's dilapidated Carnegie Library: http://viennasecession.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/6_warrencentertreevergara.jpg

urbanism geography history landscape photography interestingtimes
april 2010 by Urbanscale

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The Block: The Complete History of Eldridge Street between Stanton and Rivington 1795-1991

Jackpot link. "Click on any building to learn more about it." So beautifully done.

(nyc) urbanism history les sidewalking
november 2009 by Urbanscale

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Scouting NY: New York, You've Changed: Taxi Driver

Absolutely incredible series in which a film location scout revisits the locations in Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) and compares across time. This was the New York I remember from my childhood: so much more textured in many ways.

(nyc) architecture history film sidewalking
october 2009 by Urbanscale

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NYT: In Athens, Museum Is an Olympian Feat

Did Bernard Tschumi get something right?

architecture kultur athens history
june 2009 by Urbanscale

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Comix by Todd Ramsell: Tales of the New Frontier

This is great stuff.

comix history usa
may 2009 by Urbanscale

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YouTube: New Hovis Advert

Gorgeous ad: one century in two minutes.