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05
Sep
2008
LiftAsia08: Massively parallel, networked, talking cities

18 hours ago by Bruno Giussani

(Running notes from LiftAsia08, in Jeju, Korea) Adam Greenfield, of Nokia Design, talks about " the long here, the big now and other tales of the networked city". It's not a tech talk, it's about the emotional aspects of living in a networked city: what it's gonna feel to live there? I think we can ...

Lunch over IP - lunchoverip.com · Rank: 49,209 · 325 references

03
Sep
2008
Lewis Mumford - The City and the Dead

1 day ago by erikwdavis

A great quote from Mumford’s classic work on the City: Mid the uneasy wanderings of paleolithic man, the dead were the first to have a permanent dwelling: a cavern, a mound marked by a cairn, a collective barrow. These were the landmarks to which the living probably returned at intervals, to commune ...

deathpower - deathpower.wordpress.com · Rank: 35,030 · 9 references

02
Sep
2008
NY Historic Society Map Tour

3 days ago by Ludmil

The Society is dedicated to presenting exhibitions and public programs, and fostering research that reveal the dynamism of history and its influence on the world of today. Founded in 1804, its holdings cover four centuries of American history, and include one of the world’s greatest collections of h ...

metalocative - metalocative.com

Seattle Anti-Graffiti Party

3 days ago by Joanne McNeil

Here’s a new way for cities to combat graffiti: throwing a cleaning party. Seattle Paint Out (slogan: “The difference between art and graffiti is permission”) targeted several neighborhoods last weekend.

Tomorrow Museum - tomorrowmuseum.com · Rank: 54,306 · 26 references

California, Seen: Landscapes of a Changing California, 1930-1960

3 days ago by pomegranates

September 26, 2008 - January 11, 2009 The Long Beach Museum of Art will be showcasing California, Seen examining the important California Scene painting movement through paintings depicting the rural, urban, and changing landscape of southern California. Featuring artists Emil Kosa Jr., Phil Dike, M ...

Tragically Hipster * Los ... - tragicallyhipster.com · 1 reference

Are towns designed for the benefit of men?

3 days ago by Joanne McNeil

Are towns designed for the benefit of men? BBC on a Cambridge University study explaining road planning is better suited to men’s needs than women, “Studies show women make more complex journeys than men, dropping children off at school, going to work, getting the shopping before going home…In contr ...

Tomorrow Museum - tomorrowmuseum.com · Rank: 54,306 · 26 references

Shanghai presents the world’s tallest building

3 days ago by FFW

World Architecture News.com - Standing at 494m tall from sidewalk level to the tip, the Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC) in China falls short of the World’s Tallest Building title by 142 m at the current measurements for the Burj Dubai. But according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban ...

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Journos, Moral Panics and “Facebook Parties”

3 days ago by dk.au

The old days of Press Release Policing are looking decidedly numbered. No longer can you just get some coppers and cameras together on the 6pm news unleashing a bit of the ultraviolence in an effort to scare the kids and reassure the olds. Once you bring web into the foray, you’re putting the narrat ...

Larvatus Prodeo - larvatusprodeo.net · Rank: 7,309 · 112 references

01
Sep
2008
The social function of NIMBYs

3 days ago by AC

Matthew Kiefer is a Boston real estate and land use lawyer who obviously has spent a lot of time in the trenches of the development wars. The man knows NIMBYs. Newgeography has published his piece on the social function of NIMBYism, and it contains one of the best clinical descriptions of NIMBYs tha ...

Austin Contrarian - austinzoning.typepad.com/austincontrarian · Rank: 103,626 · 31 references

Moby picture

4 days ago by Ludmil

Mobypicture was the first pan-European operator independent mobile digital service. We were the first company to enable sending photo postings from all operators to all operator worldwide. Mobypicture has evolved into a mobile photo posting distribution service. Mob-logging, storing and distributing ...

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