urbanism
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Brand Avenue
Truth is, the locus of innovation has been shifting away from the technological to the social, and from engineers to “culturistas” for some time now.(Then again, it's the New York Times .) The article is Whole Foods Faces Decisive Vote in Brooklyn .
City Comforts, the blog
Does it seem odd to you that some fellow-citizens are sufficiently conscientious about their recyclable waste to take it all off to the neighbourhood recycling containers; but then they just dump it on the pavement? There was an example recorded in some detail over on the Kings Cross site recently (thanks Will):
Neighbourhoods
Avert your eyes: The obscenity that is Franklin's 31st Street.
Sprawled Out: The Search for Community in the American Suburb
squattercity
In Brazil, 170,000 people may face eviction ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. The New York Times reports on the land fights that are currently raging around the country.
Que les acteurs traditionnels du transport aient du mal à comprendre les nouveaux imaginaires de la mobilité, ce n'est pas une nouveauté - voir, là .
TRANSIT-CITY / URBAN & MOBILE THINK TANK
Qualifying for most hilarious licensing deal of the month, The Guggenheim Museum in New York is licensing paint colors . It's a natural, from a focus group viewpoint.
Tropolism
UNHOUSED
Max Rameau first drew national attention with his outspoken advocacy for the residents of Umoja Village, an emergency shanty town in Miami that housed people who couldn't afford a place to live or who had been displaced from public housing.
Because of this, we won’t need traffic lights at all (or stop signs, for that matter). Traffic will constantly flow, and at a rate that would probably unnerve the average human driver.
Urban Planning Blog - Thoughts on Design, Architecture & Urbansc
More fun with the Stereographic Street View hack.