Letters From Here: Archive

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The Place Where You Live →

This is a space for you to exercise your sixth sense and tell us about your place. What connects you to it? What history does it hold for you? What are your hopes and fears for it? What do you do to protect it, or prepare it for the future, or make it better? A few of the contributions we receive will appear in the print edition of Orion. The Place Where You Live will be published in every issue...

Dec 27th

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Artist Daniel Fuselier discusses the inspiration for his Mother-In-Law Lounge murals. Link.

Dec 24th

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A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation -... →

In recent decades, though, many of the fastest-growing cities in America, like Phoenix and Riverside, Calif., have given us a very different urban model. These places have traded away public spaces for affordable single-family homes, attracting working-class families who want their own white picket fences. West and Bettencourt point out, however, that cheap suburban comforts are associated with...

Dec 24th

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Bustling malls show they still have hold on... →

Nearly 52% of retail spending takes place at shopping centers today. That’s down slightly from 55% in the early 1990s, but is still formidable and better than mall performance in the years leading up to the recession.

Dec 23rd

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Drastic Changes to Bing Maps, Part 2

41latitude: Are Bing’s Maps Now Better than Google’s? With all the recent changes to Bing’s maps, people are undoubtedly going to ask if they’re now better than Google’s. After all, in order for people to switch to something new, the thing that they’re switching to typically needs to be better than what they’re already using. Read More

Dec 21st

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Exploring the Montreal-New York Food Connection →

Dec 19th

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“Austin isn’t a beautiful city. Not in the way that I meant. It’s not a showcase...”

– Architecture expert explores reality, finds it does not live up to her theories. Concludes by suggesting an authoritarian solution is needed. Austin, Now What? | Metropolis Magazine

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BBC "Dimensions" Tool →

Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are.

Dec 17th

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Brooklyn's Williamsburg becomes new front line of... →

I would say this marks the 15th anniversary of Williamsburg being cited as a “new front line” in the “gentrification battle.” Amusing that this time the hook is, of all things, a Duane Reade. C’mon.

Dec 17th

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You Are Here: How Digital Maps Are Changing the... →

Orbiting GeoEye satellites and camera-equipped Google sedans are the Magellans of the digital age, dispatched to explore and catalog — and most importantly make public — unprecedented amounts of geographical data via the Web. If anyone wants to locate anything – be it a coffee house, a post office, or an international boundary – users log into Google or Bing, not the U.N. or the U.S....

Dec 10th

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New Google Maps App Features Offline Navigation -... →

At the recently held D Mobile Conference in San Francisco, Google’s head for mobile platforms Andy Rubin announced the release of the new Google Maps App that will work in Subways and other places with low and even no network signals. Rubin said that Google Maps 5 features an offline-caching mode that stores mapping data into the browser storage which allows users to pull up directions even if...

Dec 10th

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Google Testing New Location-Based Marketing... →

Earlier this month, Google launched a social, Yelp-like service for consumers. Dubbed Hotpot, the service was based on data from Google Places, but it brought an entirely new, user-friendly interface and recommendation engine. At the time, we noted that Google had beat Facebook to the punch in launching location-based recommendations; we wondered which company would be most aggressive on...

Dec 10th

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Charles Fleming, Secret Stairs | Scaling the... →

In a place where “walking” means heading to your car across a Trader Joe’s parking lot, the prospect of promenading seems as quaint as a rotary-dial telephone. But Charles Fleming, author of “Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles” (Santa Monica Press), is helping Angelenos discover their communities’ historic and architectural...

Dec 10th

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Texan Says He's Had Much Better In Texas | The... →

Dec 8th

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Suicide rocks Disney-inspired town of Celebration,... →

On Thursday, Celebration resident Craig Foushee barricaded himself in his home for more than 14 hours, and fired on police. They never returned fire because they couldn’t get a clear shot. After 14 hours, cops deployed tear gas and entered Foushee’s well-groomed home only to find him dead of a self-inflicted gun wound. According to his Facebook page, he is survived by three daughters....

Dec 8th

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'Great Hall' will be no mall: Unique part of City... →

Dec 8th

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