December 2009
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Five minutes to midnight in this garden →
A local nonprofit tries to rehabilitate a community parcel, but is caught in the battle over blight
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Anonymous Donor Gives ABC No Rio $1m →
Dec 27th
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How War-Torn Savannah Celebrated Christmas 1864 :... →
Dec 27th
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“The more significant news is the per-capita Vehicle Miles Traveled numbers. In...”
– Americans Still Driving Less | The New Republic
Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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“Research has shown that when we live on car-filled streets, our number of close...”
– Where Have All the Joiners Gone? | Bill McKibben | Orion Magazine
Dec 18th
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“There has always been something odd in the encounter between automobility and...”
– Has the American romance with the drive-through gone sour? - By Tom Vanderbilt - Slate Magazine
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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America’s Most Unequal City →
According the Census Bureau, the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk metro area has the most income inequality of any area in the U.S. The area’s bottom 20% earn an average of $17,000. The top 5% take home $823,000 a year.
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Dec 7th
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“An iPhone application called Museum of the Phantom City, which looks at all the...”
– Using the iPhone to See New York’s Invisible Architecture - mediabistro.com: UnBeige
Dec 7th
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“As homeownership rates have risen, our society has become less nimble: in the...”
– The Atlantic Online | March 2009 | How the Crash Will Reshape America | Richard Florida
Dec 7th
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Dec 5th
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“L.A. Gang Tours expects to open to the public in January, giving tourists a look...”
– Giving tourists a look at gang culture
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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“It’s entirely possible to write “architecture fiction” instead of “science...”
– Off Center » Science Fiction and Architecture Fiction/ Bruce Sterling. (Examples given.)
Dec 5th
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Dead Malls →
The Los Angeles Forum’s Dead Malls Competition called for the redesign of malls that risked obsolescence. With malls as such major parts of the North American landscape, the competition is very forward looking and optimistic about a more efficient use of space.
Dec 5th
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City Talk: Vacant buildings evoke wonder, hold... →
Dec 2nd
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Dawn of the Dead Mall: Change Observer: Design... →
Dec 2nd
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Crawling Around with Baltimore Street Rats |... →
Rats still infest Baltimore and most other cities. A few years ago a city garbage truck was marooned in the very alley we were touring, Glass says: rats had burrowed underneath until the surface caved in, sinking the truck to its axels. The rodents soon overran it, and its fetid load furnished quite a feast.
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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36 Hours in Austin, Tex. - NYTimes.com →
Dec 1st