May 2012
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Walkable neighborhoods now have higher real estate... →
townsandcities:
People are willing to pay for a more walkable neighborhood.
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Unpaid Internships: Bad for Students, Bad for... →
It’s not just a problem for architects.
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separability:
A must-read in general. One fantastic response:
I think that it’s important to consider the implications that all of this unpaid (and likely stemming from the upper-class) labor has on society as well, especially within the industries that largely require entire chunks of time and resources from those aspiring to...
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perdedor asked: Has this blog become a series of images without context or explaination? It seems like graffiti and concrete and large amounts of things that are frowned upon? I don't think that all of these things are a brutalizing of space or a lack of humanity, a lot of terms are left vague and unopen.
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“During the past few years, I have come to fear that the United Kingdom and China...”
– The most important story in the world: Guardian reporter Jonathan Watts’ parting thoughts on nine years of environmental journalism in China | chinadialogue (via ayjay)
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April 2012
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The Crisis in American Walking: How we got off the... →
Simply by going out for a walk, I had become a strange being, studied by engineers, inhabiting environments whose physical features are determined by a rulebook-enshrined average 3 foot-per-second walking speed, my rights codified by signs. (Why not just write: “Stop for People”?) On those same signs in Savannah were often attached additional signs, advising drivers not to give to...
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“Caro had a further epiphany about power in the early ’60s. He had moved on to...”
– Robert Caro’s Big Dig - NYTimes.com (via ayjay)
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“The traditional city is very much occupied by rules and codes of behavior. But...”
– Rem Koolhaas: ‘We’re Building Assembly-Line Cities and Buildings’ (via downwithutopia)
This is an exceedingly odd comparison between Dubai and Amsterdam. Sometimes I suspect Koolhaas simply understands that deliberately absurd statements will convince people he is a counter-intuitive genius....
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The Navy, Russians, Shipping & Insurance... →
Absolutely all of the top-elite officers of these services appear to be convinced, without a shadow of a doubt, about Human Generated Climate Change (HGCC). All of those I have met consider it to be both real and one of the greatest challenges of our time.
Ponder this: the US Navy is striving with great intensity to prepare for an Arctic Ocean that is nearly ice-free for large parts of the...
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Walk at Your Own Risk →
Missing from the discussion of the shooting of Trayvon Martin is a potentially contributing factor: urban planning and its role in the polarization of American society.
There can be no doubt that our public discourse has become oppositional and vituperative. Social and mass media exacerbate the situation by blurring traditional distinctions between partisan commentary and objective reporting,...
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