September 2010
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Hand-Painted Signs Evoke Nostalgia →
They’re on walls all over: on barber shops, on seafood joints and even on churches. But mostly, they’re in poor, African-American neighborhoods.
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Model City of New Urbanism . . . Waco, TX? (Yeah,... →
mollyblock:
Via utnereader:
In a move not usually linked with areas that have large expanses of open space and strong views on property rights, this central Texas city of about 125,000 is embracing innovative urban concepts. Waco is close to adopting a plan that includes mixed retail and residential downtown development, green construction and high-density, “walkable” communities that...
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D.C. Gentrification, The Fall Of Fenty, And What... →
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10th and Greenwich →
“The city changes, and has often changed in mainly stable ways. Sometimes, a single address tells the story. When we look at the northeast corner of 10th Street and Greenwich Avenue, we can see over a century of simple shifts, ending with an explosion, not just of fire.”
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“According to German news magazine Der Spiegel, “several hundred thousand...”
– Several Hundred Thousand Germans Opt Out of Google Street View
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bookofjoe: Time Machine: New York City on film... →
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7 Weird Hotels →
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Rooms Worth Keeping →
“What explains the attraction of the recreations of historic rooms found in so many museums?”
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Savannah's port: A man, a plan, a canal | The... →
“Yet reaching this point has required significant deepening of the Savannah River, from its natural depth of 17 feet (5.2 metres) to 42 feet today. Now the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) wants to dig out Savannah’s shipping channel even further, to 48 feet, in order to attract the larger vessels expected to call on east-coast ports once the expanded Panama Canal opens in 2014. The deepening...
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I-95: The Road Most Traveled →
Series on NPR.
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StumbleSafely: Visualizing Crime To Map Safer... →
“StumbleSafely, visualizes crime levels surrounding Washington DC bars and Metro stops. The site integrates crime statistics from the police department to create a map that gives important context to a specific user base.”
BUT, as a subsequent PSFK post points out:
“I think there is a problem with this kind of mapping – mainly that you risk stigmatizing certain...
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