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Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network

San Francisco Takes Steps to Electrify Bay Ferries - San Francisco Takes Steps to Electrify Bay Ferries Diana Ionescu Wed, 11/06/2024 - 11:00 Primary Image [image: Aerial view of San Francisco Ferry Building ...
4 hours ago
ArchDaily

The Hub for Clinical Collaboration at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Perkins&Will - The Hub for Clinical Collaboration is a 17-story academic office tower at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The building is located on the ...
7 hours ago
The Guardian: Art & Design

Two bondage fans in Cuba: Jean-François Bouchard’s best photograph - ‘Felix runs a weekly class teaching the art of Japanese bondage in Havana. It was his idea to have Katy smoking a cigar. They’re part of a subculture mos...
7 hours ago
McSweeney's

I Don’t Hate Women Candidates. I Just Thought an Erratic and Vindictive Criminal Was Worthier of My Vote Than a Woman Candidate - I admit, it was tricky for me, a white male swing-state voter, to decide who deserved my vote in this election. But in the end, I cast my ballot for Dona...
8 hours ago
Tumblr Staff Picks

Tumblr Tuesday (On Monday): BOOps—A Retrospective - BOOps! You love ‘em. Halloween brought you some spooky cat paws, and you all had a great time chasing those most ephemeral of joys. With the spooky BOOp-...
2 days ago
Brain Pickings

The Great Blind Spot of Science and the Art of Asking the Complex Question the Only Answer to Which Is Life - “Real isn’t how you are made… It’s a thing that happens to you,” says the Skin Horse — a stuffed toy brought to life by a child’s love — in The Velveteen R...
2 days ago
Information Is Beautiful

Dataviz of the Month – Sep 2024 - CREATED BY US » Water World – where is all the water in all the world? » Per Second – interesting frequencies / cycles / rates / vibrations per second » Th...
6 days 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...
3 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...
1 month 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
Urban Demographics

Finalist in the Academic Jabuti Award - The Jabuti award is one of the most prestigious literary awards in Brazil. The award includes a broad range of categories, and this year they have creat...
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
Death by Architecture

Competition / IAAC GLOBAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2021 // Applications Open! / Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia - The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is glad to launch another edition of the Global Summer School (GSS21), the 14th edition of the ...
3 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...
9 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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Local Works - Campaigning to implement the Sustainable Communities Act

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