The Guardian on a bike lane in Brooklyn, Sadik-Khan, NYC Politics, & the NYTimes as an active and partisan player [MN]

For City’s Transportation Chief, Kudos and Criticism

Unusually thought-provoking disc. & diverse perspectives @ Parallel Urbanism: local people regulating local spaces [MN]

"Before I Die", @candychang 's public installation, turns a neglected space in New Orleans into a constructive one [MN]

The City of Boston's department of New Urban Mechanics (!) is doing some awesome stuff: [AG]

So *potentially* interesting, and yet implemented in such a bizarre way that it becomes completely useless

"All sense but political sense says scrap the ill-judged generosity of spending £1bn a year so over-60s can travel free"

Some home truths on Nasr from the Mustache. Even a broke-dick clock is right twice a day.

A dollar short, a day late, disingenuous about his own newsroom's role in e.g. cheerleading for the invasion of Iraq...but nice to see anyway. Via Mia.

Can we have a moratorium on anything "2.0"?

On the one hand: OMGWTF. On the other: Entirely predictable, and — I might add, with some justice — that in fact I called this one from twenty miles off. Via Tom Carden.

And, completely coincidentally: "Kibera, widely known as Africa's largest slum, remains a blank spot on the map. Without basic knowledge of the geography of Kibera it is impossible to have an informed discussion on how to improve the lives of residents of Kibera. Young Kiberans will create the first public digital map of Kibera." Via Migurski.

Daniela Fabricius on Rio's favela archipelago and the various strategies used to return it to the map. Via Mario.

As noted previously, very disturbed at IBM's attempts to bigfoot the conversation around these issues. Which is a huge shame, because so so much of this is right on.

"These...logics and relationships...resist conventional forms of representation[,] and to operate within them requires the development of tools of analysis and design that account for the multiplicities of scale and complex logics that are found within the contemporary city."

Quoted for truth, as they say.

I think Ben really nails it here, especially the quote from Alex.

Splendid, timely, necessary, correct.

Good for Alex, beginning to move toward the recognition that more will be called for than "bright green" environmentalism - much more.

A really, really good list of books here - seminal, important stuff. (Not sure what that one by that Greenfield chap is doing there, but they can't *all* be classics.)

Liz's LIFT Marseilles '09 deck. (OMG can I just say I hate hate hate Slideshare.)

I've been seeing these for years, suspected there had to be some organizing involved, didn't know who or what or how...

When did the Democratic Party die and get replaced with something with some steel in its veins? Why was I not informed immediately? This is great fun, great (ugh) Politics 2.0, and great psyop. (The "coming soon" bit is particularly delicious.)

Hmmm. Well, for the most part I approve of Prop 8 backers getting a taste of what hate feels like - after all, they're perfectly happy to legislate it for others. But you know I've gotta draw the line at actionable harassment and intimidation. Anyway, point is: didn't I tell you this was going to happen?

"instead, legions of healthy, casually ironic, extremely nice young men and women will flock to Washington to map out the green revolution. When it comes, it will look more like Google than like the Tennessee Valley Authority."

Policing the discourse in the HCI domain of inquiry. Via Nicolas Nova.

Mission Accomplished; we can now power down the Intarwebs. This may even trump Kasparov's dildocopter.

Hullabaloo's digby utterly nails the underlying premise of Republican attacks.

Latour pushing back at Langdon Winner.

Profound and important. For that other project.

Psychologically acute: "The most dangerous George Bush is one who feels weak, powerless and under attack. Those perceptions are intolerable for him and I doubt there are many limits, if there are any, on what he would be willing to do in order to restore