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Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network

In Texas, data centers are swallowing promised parkland - In Texas, data centers are swallowing promised parkland Zachary Whalen Tue, 11/03/2026 - 09:00 Primary Image [image: : Construction of massive Samsung semi...
35 minutes ago
The Guardian: Art & Design

‘The output of a lunatic asylum’: what the Bloomsbury group can tell us about mental health - From Virginia Woolf’s horrifying views on eugenics to James Strachey’s seminal translations of Freud, the Bloomsbury set didn’t only experience mental il...
3 hours ago
ArchDaily

A Walk on the Roof: Linnahall and Tallinn’s Shifting Shoreline - From the end of Mere Boulevard in Tallinn, Linnahall appears as a long, low mass of limestone and concrete laid between the Old Town and the bay, kept de...
10 hours ago
Brain Pickings

Love in the Time of Dinosaurs - In 1824, studying a set of large fossil bones discovered in a quarry near Oxford two centuries earlier, the English theologian, geologist, and paleontologi...
18 hours ago
McSweeney's

Argoth the Unrelenting’s Unsurprising Victory, and other Election Night Results - *The following is an excerpt from our new book,* *Obey In Advance: How to Survive and Thrive Under Authoritarianism* *by longtime McSweeney’s writer Ginn...
23 hours ago
Chris Blattman: Development, Policy, Conflict

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1 day ago
Ian Bogost

The Gestures We’ve Forgotten - Time and change have obscured certain acts, such as cranking a machine or dialing a rotary phone, but we can still rediscover them.
4 days ago
thinkwhere

Investigating changes in the writing style of HackerNews users since the advent of LLMs. - Intro An investigation into whether its possible to detect if a user has changed their writing style from looking at their comments. Could this be a potent...
1 week ago
Urban Demographics

NetMob 2026 - Last week, I had a wonderful experience at NetMob 2026, the leading conference for researchers using mobile phone data to investigate all sorts of quest...
1 week ago
Information Is Beautiful

Win a copy of our book! Share your thoughts & ideas on Beautiful News - Our evidence-based optimism project @beautifulnews.daily returns next week! Launching Oct 12th. A chart a day surfacing & visualising amazing, progressive ...
3 weeks ago
Tumblr Staff Picks

Premium just got better - Your feedback matters. *Tumblr Premium* now includes a few brand new, top-requested features. Saved Posts & Collections Never lose a post again. Use th...
1 month ago
Henri Fanthome Office for Architecture

WHEN BUYING A NEW FLAT - ALWAYS VISIT THE LOCAL FIRE STATION - THANK ME LATER! - The next time you are thinking of buying a new flat for your family please visit your local fire station first. I know that sounds a little wild, but le...
4 months ago
Jean-Etienne's blog

Notes en passant: how AI could unlearn in HEOR Modelling - In a recent paper, Tinglong Dai, Risa Wolf, and Haiyang Yang wrote about unlearning in Medical AI. With more and more CPU and storage thrown at Large Langu...
1 year 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...
2 years 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, ...
4 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 ...
5 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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
9 years ago
Charneira

In E - Back in late 2014, Datarock (a norwegian electro rock band) were invited by their friends at Bergen based computer game company Turbo Tape Games to writ...
9 years ago
Sustainable Cities Collective

Starting Young: 4 Tips For Reducing Waste In Schools - In order to reduce the amount of waste produced by our schools, we need to emphasize sustainability from a young age. This can be accomplished through stud...
9 years ago
Time Tells

The Future of Heritage Conservation - Well, it finally started to happen, and in Houston of all places. PastForward, the National Preservation Conference of the National Trust for Historic Pre...
9 years ago
airoots/eirut

Utopian Futures vs. the Fictional Present - This is the summary of a talk given at Oris – House of architecture, Zagreb, Croatia on June 16th 2016, which was part of the the Future Architecture Platf...
10 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...
10 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...
10 years ago
anArchitecture

Alt Erlaa - content by anArchitecture
11 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 ...
11 years ago
Six Word Story Every Day

499 - 05.14.11 Don't forget which is the brake. Writer: Katelyn Regenscheid Designer: Mary Arneson
11 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...
11 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...
12 years ago
polis

A Space That Is Not the Battlefield - *by Patrick Sykes* The dust is settling on Shura City, yet not a single brick has been laid. Since this proposal for a drone-proof city emerged, its creato...
12 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.
12 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...
13 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...
13 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...
14 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...
15 years ago
Metropolis POV | Metropolis Magazine

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