August 2011
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La Brea →
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The Art Guys • Greens Bayou Street →
“Greens Bayou Street” is an audio walking tour conducted by The Art Guys of a section of Greens Bayou Street in Houston, Texas. The audio walking tour begins on Greens Bayou Street, just east of Normandy Street, and proceeds east along Greens Bayou Street and concludes approximately 600 feet east of Dwight Street near the 12900 block of Greens Bayou Street. Recording length: 12:00...
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Ristretto | Los Angeles Coffee Crawl - NYTimes.com →
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Are American Cities Going Mad Architecturally? |... →
“Is there no limit to the craze for tall office buildings?” demands this New York Times Magazine article from 1911. The main downsides of tall buildings discussed here are blocking of light, and “disfigurement” of skylines. The interviewer suggests to the principle subject that not all cities view tall buildings as disfigurement. “That simply shows a lack of taste and...
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For Canada to arrive, it needs to be obliterated... →
The more you think about it, this lack of apocalyptic destruction isn’t just baffling – it’s infuriating, and more than a little bit depressing. Disaster movies target cities like Los Angeles and London because they occupy a massive place in the global imagination. 2012 toppled the Vatican because it’s the biggest symbol of one of the world’s major religions. The fact...
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CH Local: Portland →
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Augmented Reality: Science Fiction Writer Becomes... →
Sterling’s new Layar “layer” is titled “Dead Drops,” and is an international collaboration with Layar coder Menno Bieringa, German media artist Aram Bartholl and Layar artist-in-residence Sander Veenhof.
“I wrote a contribution for a new book about Aram’s artwork,” says Sterling, “and I realized his ‘Dead Drops’ network meshes perfectly with the Augmented Reality ideal. It’s all about...
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WatchIn Detroit’s Ruins, A Look at an Electronic Music Revolution, by Resident Advisor
Top notch.
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Geographic Information Systems Help Scholars See... →
Advanced technology similar to Google Earth, MapQuest and the GPS systems used in millions of cars has made it possible to recreate a vanished landscape. This new generation of digital maps has given rise to an academic field known as spatial humanities. Historians, literary theorists, archaeologists and others are using Geographic Information Systems — software that displays and analyzes...
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The Shifting Geography of Black America |... →
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Building better cities 24 hours at a time |... →
It’s all part of a 24-hour stunt to turn a boring urban block into a vibrant one overnight. Lockrem and more than a dozen volunteers will pick up trash, and set up food stalls and cafe seating on the sidewalk. Jay Crossley is an organizer with Houston’s Better Block Project, a movement that started in Dallas and is now spreading to other parts of the country.
Dallas version...
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Finding the Potential in Vacant Lots - In the... →
One abandoned yard is a mess; 20,000 abandoned yards is an ecosystem. At this scale, Cleveland’s vacant land begins to look less like a sign of neglect and more like an ecological experiment spread over some 3,600 acres. As it happens, a team of local scientists has designated this accidental landscape an Urban Long-Term Research Area — that is, Ultra. And having won a $272,000 exploratory award...
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