June 2010
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Historypin | About →
Historypin asks the public to dig out, upload and pin their own old photos, as well as the stories behind them, onto the Historypin map. Uniquely, Historypin lets you layer old images onto modern Street View scenes, giving a series of peaks into the past.
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College degree density of major U.S. cities. →
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On Bohemia →
“Bohemias are not the same thing as artist clusters.”
Weights in on Tyler Cowen / Richard Florida bohemia-chatter.
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Esquire: Best Bars in America →
A secondary list of another 15 bars is here.
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OpenStreetMap →
OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth.
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Fifth Street Farm Project →
“Construction is due to commence this fall, and by next spring, school children should be planting vegetables on a 3,000-square-foot roof deck with spectacular views of the surrounding neighborhood. This experiment in urban agriculture, led by the World Trade Center Memorial designer Michael Arad, will be integrated into existing school courses on science and nutrition. The children will...
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Savannah Plans School Clinic | Georgia Public... →
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“Most of us have become dependent on computer-generated maps of one sort or...”
– Are Google Maps and GPS bad for our brains?
This is one of the reasons I’ve resisted GPS or even a smartphone — I hate the idea of being so disconnected from a new place, just following directions.
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Illegal trailer park grows into a community - Los... →
A year after a federal judge rejected government efforts to shut down the trailer park known as Duroville, this cramped warren of banged-up trailers and relentless poverty is experiencing something of a renaissance.
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Sculptural Security: "Razzle Dazzle"
Vacant housing is an obvious problem for a transitional neighborhood. It can mean visual blight, sending an unwelcoming signal. And it can be site of more tangible troubles: assorted ne’er-do-wells occupying the place without authorization for time-spans long or short, often to conduct illegal activities.
It’s a hard problem to solve decisively — finding a buyer who will fix...
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Watch“A Series of Walks” is part performance, part installation. Schelling attached 10 cameras to her body and tread the streets of New York with robotic movements, mimicking Google’s cameras and recording a nearly 360-degree view of where she went. For the installation, Schelling built a telephone-booth sized box for the viewer to enter. With six projectors, the videos were played on...
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Black Flight is the New Worry for Detroit -... →
Further erosion of Detroit’s middle-class could cripple a turnaround plan by government and private-sector leaders here. It calls for “right-sizing” the city’s government and geography to fit a shrunken population. But it hinges on the city shoring up stable neighborhoods and retaining middle-class taxpayers, while converting blighted areas for such uses as parks or farms....
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Savannah business owners rally against West Bay... →
They say West Bay corridor improvement plan paves over their history and leaves them out of neighborhood revitalization
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About Narrow Streets: Los Angeles →
I took a series of carefully framed photos, fired up the computer at home, and voliá: a bizarre illusion appeared before me, simultaneously mundane + outrageous in its simple depiction of a fantastical, parallel-universe Los Angeles that no longer catered exclusively to cars. I narrowed street after street, each time giggling with excitement
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Solutions Remain Few on Issue of Nuclear- Waste... →
Casks like these are the power industry’s biggest hot potatoes. Their presence at a defunct reactor site like Wiscasset’s underscores the intractability of the nuclear-waste problem confronting the power sector and the failure of U.S. policymakers to find a permanent solution. Meant for temporary storage next to energy plants, these containers are now serving as de facto indefinite...
