September 2011
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About — Historic Detroit →
HistoricDetroit.org is Detroit’s place to learn the stories behind the city’s historic places and for photographers, historians and others to share their love, images, memories and more about its landmarks.
It is a nonprofit Web site where all are encouraged to share their photos and stories. All contributors maintain full rights of and receive full credit on their submissions and can...
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The Stress of Crowds: Scientific American →
Researchers have known for decades that residents of densely populated areas have higher rates of mental illnesses, including anxiety disorders and schizophrenia. But do the brains of city dwellers function any differently from those of rural folk? Studies are showing that they do.
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The Beginning of the End for Suburban America -... →
Taken together, the end of growth in residential electricity consumption and vehicle miles traveled form a momentous signal. The United States we all grew up with is changing, or rather, it’s changed and the numbers are beginning to reflect that. The growth in housing size, electricity demand and miles traveled were the hallmarks of the suburban/exurban era. They were the statistics of...
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BLDGBLOG: Test City →
A private consulting firm in Washington D.C. is developing a “test city”—one “with no permanent population”—in the New Mexico desert, according to the Albuquerque Journal. It will be “a privately financed, small city on 20 square miles in New Mexico for testing and evaluation of new and emerging technologies,” run from afar by Pegasus Global Holdings. ...
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The Smart Set: A Question of Timing - September 7,... →
Yet more on ruins porn.
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The Rise of the Walkable City | INFRASTRUCTURIST →
such transformations remain the exception rather than the rule, Doherty and Leinberger write, because federal and state governments continue to subsidize suburbanization by favoring highway projects over transit systems
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The Software Newspapers Need to Cover Homicides... →
HomicideWatch.org, founded last September. The site’s mission is to cover every single homicide in Washington, DC. As the site’s header puts it, “Mark every death. Remember every victim. Follow every case.” Because of its comprehensiveness, the site has become a crucial (and often exclusive) source of information about the crimes that don’t make headlines.
