July 2011
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“*This exegesis advances the field. A must-read if the topic interests you.”
– Architecture Fiction: Implausible Futures for Unpopular Places | Beyond The Beyond
That is, Bruce Sterling, referring to: http://places.designobserver.com/feature/implausible-futures-for-unpopular-places/28738/
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Don't Mess With Texas Bespoke - WSJ.com →
As a storied Houston shirtmaker charges forward, a look back at the wild world of Lone Star tailoring
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oakland, ca city guide | Design*Sponge →
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Dear Yankee : Texas Monthly's Paul Burka offers... →
This one is the most interesting to me (having been out of Texas for 20 years now):
4. Texas is not a “weak governor” state. A common misconception. It used to be true, but during his historic governorship, Perry has reinvented the office as a power center. This may be his greatest accomplishment. Yes, our state constitution, written the year before Reconstruction ended, created a weak...
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The Surprising Architectural Legacy of Buffalo,... →
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Artists Announce They've Found All The Beauty They... →
DETROIT—After spending more than a century exploiting urban decay to create deeply moving, socially conscious works of art, the art world announced Tuesday that it had captured all the beauty it was going to find in rusted-out cars, abandoned houses, and condemned industrial sites. “These modern ruins speak to the very heart of the human condition, but at this point every last inch of...
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Savannah officials vow tougher stance on blight -... →
Something of a philosophical shift also has happened.
In working with Historic Savannah and the Metropolitan Planning Organization, city inspectors and administrators also are recognizing that calling for demolition isn’t the end-all solution.
Instead of an abandoned home, the city ends up dealing with a vacant lot. It becomes quickly overgrown, attracts loiterers and isn’t as marketable as a...
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Top City for Millionaire Growth: Houston - The... →
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Watch(via 110 Stories: Augmented Reality Twin Towers iPhone App by Brian August — Kickstarter)
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TEEX Disaster City® →
Welcome to Disaster City®, a place where tragedy and training meet – a place where anything is possible. Located in College Station, Texas, this 52-acre training facility, located adjacent to the world-renowned Brayton Fire Training Field, delivers the full array of skills and techniques needed by today’s emergency response professionals.
I’d go.
Thx for the tip, Amy!
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Should Cities Drive Food Trucks Off the Streets? -... →
Food trucks a big talking point in Savannah these days.
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Science Friday Archives: Archaic Texan Rock Art... →
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John Mosca, owner of the landmark restaurant... →
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Green Uses for Disaster Housing: Katrina Cottages... →
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A Food Lover's Guide to Atlanta - Corby Kummer -... →
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Creative Class » Blog Archive » Safety in... →
The key factor, as it turns out, lies in the growing racial, ethnic, and demographic diversity of our cities and metro areas. Our analysis found that the Hispanic share of the population is negatively associated with urban crime. Crime also fell as the percentage of the population that is non-white and the percentage that is gay increased. And of all the variables in our analysis, the one that...
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The Decline of the Online Message Board -... →
If urban history can be applied to virtual space and the evolution of the Web, the unruly and twisted message boards are Jane Jacobs. They were built for people, and without much regard to profit. How else do you get crowds of not especially lucrative demographics like flashlight buffs (candlepowerforums.com), feminists (bust.com) and jazz aficionados (forums.allaboutjazz.com)? By contrast, the...
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Conscious Consumption: The Package-Free Grocery... →
In.gredients will be the first “package-free” supermarket in the United States. Much like London’s Unpackaged, In.gredients will be an exercise in the “sustainable micro-grocer business model.”
Focusing on the concept of “pre-cycling,” the store will encourage shoppers to bring their own containers from home, filling them up with and purchasing only the amounts of food that they need. With...
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Two decades of the web: a utopia no longer |... →
What the internet badly needed in its first two decades of existence, and what it needs still, is a book akin to Jane Jacob’s 1961 The Death and Life of Great American Cities which attacked the practices and attitudes of 1950s US urban planners and proved hugely influential. The structure of online space requires a similar critique.
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In Louisville, New Life Fills Old Facades - Slide... →
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Lawrence, KS City Guide | Design*Sponge →
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Houston, New York Has a Problem by Edward L.... →
True, New York boasts fantastic cultural advantages, hip downtown neighborhoods, and pleasures you can enjoy even if you don’t have much cash in your pocket—museums, parks, architecture. But the fact remains that living in Houston on $60,000 a year means a high-quality, spacious home, an air-conditioned commute, low local taxes, education options, and a decent amount of spending money left over....
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How Skyscrapers Can Save the City - Magazine - The... →
Historic preservation should be limited and well defined. Landmarking a masterpiece like the Flatiron Building or the old Penn Station is sensible. Preserving a post-war glazed-brick building is absurd. But where do you draw the line between those two extremes?
My own preference is that, in a city like New York, the Landmarks Preservation Commission should have a fixed number of buildings,...
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The New Yorker Hearts Suburbs | The New Republic →
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Open Source Design 03: RoboCop: The Monument -... →
Most city governments long for this kind of interest in local decision-making, and they’re increasingly relying on the Internet to provide such easy access to what’s otherwise a timesuck at city hall. A pop culture statue doesn’t exactly carry the same weight as a debate over a sales tax increase or a new mega-development, but Walley says it does represent a positive change for...
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Many Black New Yorkers Are Moving to the South -... →
I think this has been going for some years now. But interesting overview.
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Third Coast International Audio Festival ::... →
This hour: Chicago. Hogbutcher to the world, jewel of the Midwest, and everything inbetween.
A fantastic episode of the always-enjoyable Re:Sound podcast from Third Coast Festival folks.
