February 2012
121 posts
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia of innocence and an appeal to the...”
– Albert Camus
After OWS: Social Practice Art, Abstraction, and... →
Mapping as a Spatial, Political and Environmental... →
Oh yes.
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“People want more space to develop their own individual talents. They want more...”
– NYT article Talent Society - interesting piece.
“The city is less akin to organisms and more to software, thus subject to coding,...”
“The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one...”
– David Harvey
“More New Yorkers are killed every year by motor vehicles than are murdered by...”
– NYC Councilmember Vacca
Walkable Neighborhood not a big house →
Not sure if I already posted this but just reading it makes me happy :)
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Partizaning Organized →
Are you on facebook? Do you enjoy street art and urban interventions? Follow us by liking the page in anticipation of the english language version for www.partizaning.org.
Awesomeness = guaranteed.
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Zomia = Undiscovered Country →
The Futility of Flyovers →
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Indian Street Art →
Thinking of what to write about for the Indian context - street art as a space for advertizing has long existed but not as a means for individual expression. However, I am not a huge fan of the emerging graffiti culture in Delhi, for instance (Though Mumbai has some awesome stuff). The Free Binayak Sen stencils was an example of the type of political activism that gives that kind of work...
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“It is necessary to move pre-trial detention centers outside the city because the...”
– Uhm. ???
“When it comes to public transport, Moscow’s underground is renowned as one of...”
– Wheelchair taxi fleet for Moscow’s disabled. Affordable? Sustainable?
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Thank you gleemie! This is a part of my brainyitch...
12 handwriten loveletters →
Handwriting will never be unbeautiful. So lovely. via fastcodesign
Stalin's Moscow Metro 2 →
An undiscovered maze of tunnels and metro lines
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Moscow re-energizes streets with solar power →
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Secret City, Moscow →
Urban discovery spaces
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“Critical areas of scholarship on New York City addressed in IJURR include...”
– Free issue of IURR on NYC!
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“Our need for a home arises out of a vulnerability and a lack of solid identity....”
– Where the heart is
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“Coral reefs are sometimes called “the cities of the sea”, and part of the...”
– Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From, writes about recurring patterns and liquid networks.
How can we make cities fit for cycling?
8 steps to maker cities fit for cycling
Life ambition
How do I combine the need to travel and explore, with an urge to do research and an unstoppable drive to create.
1 Make a living doing it -travelling around the world and conducting research + urban interventions…but how to fund it…! 2. PhD where my fieldwork takes me many places - but after that I wont be able to afford a life of travel. 3. Make lots of money doing a non stressful...
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thought sketching: Russian Cities
Planners clearly didn’t create ideal systems or cities in Russia or the former USSR. Soviet planning lended to large blocks, collective housing - all largely unaesthetic. Presoviet architecture is vibrant and beautiful, and the combination of both resulted in some striking cities. I think that, there are many great lessons to learn from a society and urban system that seems to function along...
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“A key principle of Cuba’s five per cent system is that health and...”
– John Thackara in his new essay - Design in the Light of Dark Energy.
Geo-Wiki Project →
crowdsourcing global land cover maps
“The explanation for this effect returns us to the benefits of not being able to...”
– Jonah Lehrer on why being sleepy and drunk is great for creativity from Imagine: How Creativity Works
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