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Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network

Fiery Tesla Crash Highlights Need for Mechanical Door Handles - Fiery Tesla Crash Highlights Need for Mechanical Door Handles Diana Ionescu Wed, 11/20/2024 - 11:00 Primary Image [image: Close-up of door handle on outsid...
3 hours ago
McSweeney's

The Sirens Are Unionizing - Damn right, we’re unionizing. Management wants ten shipwrecks a week. It’s ridiculous. Last year it was eight, who knows what it’ll be next year. Oh, sur...
4 hours ago
The Guardian: Art & Design

A Bornean orangutan on a fearless quest for figs: Tim Laman’s best photograph - ‘While it was dark, I climbed up and put remote control cameras in the tree. I’d never have got the shot if I’d been up there. An orangutan always knows ...
5 hours ago
ArchDaily

Milky’s Fold / Simone Ferkul Projects - For Milky's third location, a third dimension. Milky's newest coffee shop at 1243 Dundas St W in Toronto, opened March 15th, 2024. The space, designed by ...
6 hours ago
Brain Pickings

The Heroes Among Us: John Berger on the Courage to Create - "The powerful fear art, whatever its form... because it makes sense of what life’s brutalities cannot, a sense that unites us... becomes a meeting-place of...
1 day ago
Tumblr Staff Picks

Tumblr Tuesday: Watch It All Burn (Arcane Spoilers Ahead) - Tumblr Tuesday: Watch It All Burn (*Arcane *Spoilers Ahead) Everyone’s favorite disaster siblings are back, and Piltover and Zaun are in their usual state ...
1 day ago
Urban Demographics

Visiting Professor at Toronto - I haven’t been very disciplined in feeding this website. It’s been over three months since my last post, but this is because life has been a bit more he...
4 days ago
Information Is Beautiful

Introducing the Information is Beautiful Print Store - Our new online store where you can buy high-quality art prints and canvases of our most popular infographics & visualizations as well as downloadable train...
1 week ago
A Daily Dose of Architecture

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books is on Substack - I'm breaking my blogging silence to do two things: 1. Alert readers to the fact I am still writing reviews of architecture books under the title *A...
5 weeks ago
Charneira

- The baloon powered boat falls under the "traditional toys" category. I tried to find out who invented it but couldn't. A lot of makers do a version of i...
2 months ago
Ian Bogost

Google Already Won - A federal judge has declared Google a monopolist. In a 277-page decision released yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta concluded that the onl...
3 months ago
thinkwhere

An AI Image Adventure for Terminalia – using chatgpt vision to create an mobile psychogeographer - For the 2024 Terminalia Festival of Psychogeography (of which I also curate) I created a mobile psychogeographer and adventure. The psychogeographer looks ...
5 months ago
Chris Blattman: Development, Policy, Conflict

Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more complicated - My piece in Wired The post Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more co...
1 year ago
The Archaeology News Network

North 'plaza' in Cahokia was likely inundated year-round, study finds - The ancient North American city of Cahokia had as its focal point a feature now known as Monks Mound, a giant earthwork surrounded on its north, south, ...
2 years ago
Jean-Etienne's blog

Start with a PyPortal in 2021 - The Adafruit PyPortal is a great device, with a few bells an whistles already integrated in order to start small electronic projects (but expensive, ok ;-)...
3 years ago
The Urbanophile

For New Urbanism Posts, Follow Me at Heartland Intelligence - Moving forward, new posts on urbanism and public policy will appear on my Substack site Heartland Intelligence. So please click over and subscribe if you...
4 years ago
Henri Fanthome Office for Architecture

The Pandemic and the City - The city is not just block and buildings with roads, and traffic. The city is also lives, livelihoods, opportunity, economic opportunity, but more than ...
4 years ago
Aid Thoughts

The Importance of Being Earnest - There are a couple of things to be excited about. The first is that Ranil has made his Youtube debut. Above you can watch him present on of his PhD papers ...
4 years ago
Urban Planning Blog

What is Stopping Poor People From Moving? - Why have people stopped moving? The reason, economists believe, is that while there are good wages in economically vibrant cities like New York and San Fra...
7 years ago
Sustainable Cities Collective

Sustainable Cities Collective is Moving! - In the coming days, this community will be moving to a new home: Smart Cities Dive! To make sure you still get your daily intel on sustainable cities and u...
7 years ago
anArchitecture

Hahahaha. - "a happy place." content by anArchitecture [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.an-architecture.com for content. ]]
7 years ago
Time Tells

Latest news on Alamo Plaza - The big news this week is the long-awaited release of the Alamo Master plan, following a process that took most of the year. Actually, the real master pla...
7 years ago
visualcomplexity.com

Digital City Portrait Boston - [image: Digital City Portrait Boston] For the launch of 4G services in eleven UK cities, EE commissioned Brendan Dawes to create a digital portrait for e...
8 years ago
Datavisualization.ch

A Note From Your Editor - We will no longer actively publish on Datavisualization.ch, as our focus has shifted from collecting visualizations to building them. I'd like to share the...
8 years ago
Travelling Tonito's Adventures

Tonito Returns… Albeit briefly! - It has been a very long time since I last blogged. Too long in fact, but over the last year changing circumstances in my life has made blogging very, very ...
9 years ago
Six Word Story Every Day

499 - 05.14.11 Don't forget which is the brake. Writer: Katelyn Regenscheid Designer: Mary Arneson
9 years ago
airoots/eirut

Determine frequency of checking - Determine frequency of checking for e mail messages. Some people choose to check it throughout the day and even use such devices as the Blackberry when on ...
9 years ago
Code & form

Work: Absolut Cracking - New work for the ongoing Absolut Art Exchange project, by way of invitation from Filip Visnjic of the famous Creative Applications blog. You can find my co...
10 years ago
information aesthetics

Visualizing Publicly Available US Government Data Online - [image: political_us.jpg] Brightpoint Consulting recently released a small collection of interactive visualizations based on open, publicly available data...
10 years ago
Places from Design Observer: Forum of Design for the Public Realm

Timothy M. Rohan: Scenographic Urbanism: Paul Rudolph and the Public Realm - On Places, Timothy Rohan offers a detailed look at Paul Rudolph's masterful — and dramatic — public projects of the early 1960s.
10 years ago
polis

A Tramway Arrives in Casablanca - *by Cristiana Strava* As Morocco’s largest city and business center, Casablanca suffers from infernal traffic congestion, related air pollution and insuffi...
10 years ago
(New) Babylon Reloaded

Just a house - Hiroshi Sugimoto's reconstructed Chashitsu teahouse. Japan seems to be a place where housing, the very notion of "the house", is being constantly questione...
11 years ago
Javierest - Architecture, Geography, Cartography

The Rise of the Darists - At long last, Rice University School of Architecture’s Plat 2.5 is out. Actually, it’s been out for the last few months. I have an essay called “The Rise o...
11 years ago
Generator.x: Generative strategies in art & design

Generator.x 3.0: Documentation and aftermath - Generator.x 3.0: From Code to Atoms (slideshow of “gx30″ tag on Flickr) Generator.x 3.0: From Code to Atoms Feb 18-26, 2012 at iMal, Brussels http://www.im...
12 years ago
GisellaVecchiB.Log | environment, politics&India

Is the Jasmine Revolution stepping back - It seems just yesterday when Tunisians took the streets in protests for the transition government mainly formed by members of the old and obsolete establis...
13 years ago
Urban Neighborhood Design Alliance

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Death by Architecture

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The Urban Times

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Metropolis POV | Metropolis Magazine

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Local Works - Campaigning to implement the Sustainable Communities Act

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The Browser

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