February 2010
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New signs of life emerge at former Sharpstown Mall... →
“Mariachi bands play on the weekends, while clowns entertain children. But there’s more to be done. Over the next year or so, two mercados big enough to house hundreds of small merchants will open in the mall; a play area and large family lounge will be added; movies will start showing again in a shuttered theater; and a nightclub and entertainment venue will open — assuming a...
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Riding the bus changes her view - latimes.com →
Attractive and stylish 26 year old white woman starts riding bus. L.A. Times responds with huge in-depth article.
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Lowbrow Art Galleries, Los Angeles, California. →
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A Photographer's Take on East Austin [Interview] -... →
“Rama Tiru, a local artist, has self-published a photo essay book called Austin - East of I-35.”
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Looking Into the Past - a set on Flickr →
“Images are made by finding old photographs of places, printing them out, and then holding the print up in the modern day location that the original photograph was taken. So far, most of the historical images have been available for free at the Library of Congress.”
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In praise of ugly buildings - The Boston Globe →
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Chickenov! - The Stunning Conclusion! - Best fried... →
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Robert Bruegmann: Sprawl →
“In his incisive history of the expanded city, Bruegmann overturns every assumption we have about sprawl. Taking a long view of urban development, he demonstrates that sprawl is neither recent nor particularly American but as old as cities themselves, just as characteristic of ancient Rome and eighteenth-century Paris as it is of Atlanta or Los Angeles. Nor is sprawl the disaster claimed by...
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“as we become a more urban society, our cities seem to become more bloated and...”
– The Smart Set: City Views - February 17, 2010
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“Crime in America keeps going down. Why does the public refuse to believe it?”
– Imaginary fiends - The Boston Globe
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Houston lags in efforts to get rid of blight →
It is just one of more than an estimated 9,000 houses, sheds, structures and former businesses across Houston deemed dangerous and in need of demolition. They are, in many ways, emblematic of a city that has grown quickly, erecting shiny new buildings, but leaving behind structural corpses left for dead but never buried. City officials say they don’t have enough inspectors to address all the...
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Brooklyn Typology →
Brookyn Typology is an investigation of borough’s population and urban form. It consists of 2100 photographs taken in a sample of blockgroups in Brooklyn, plus detailed Census, historical, and typological data about the residential and housing in area.
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In the World of Facebook - The New York Review of... →
A running theme of this essay is that Facebook is the “suburbs” of social networking.
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Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » oklahoma city guide →
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“Perhaps modern ruins will become an integral part of the contemporary cityscape,...”
– things magazine: an online journal about objects and meanings
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“Visitors on the observation deck of the world’s tallest tower heard a loud...”
– Dubai tower shut after visitors stuck in elevator - Yahoo! News
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Space: It’s Still a Frontier - Opinionator Blog -... →
Confusing article introduces interesting notions about wasted urban space, and a highly theoretical response to that problem. This comment sums up flaws, etc. Still, the underlying issue is interesting.
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“Conservatives do not enjoy being stuck in traffic any more than liberals. We may...”
– A Conservative Makes the Case for Mass Transit (But Not High Speed Rail) » INFRASTRUCTURIST
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Savannah Historic District - Annotated (by someone... →
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“In Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates - now Iraq -...”
– BBC - A History of the World - About - Transcripts - Episode 12 - Standard of Ur
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Obscura Day 2010 | March 20th 2010 →
