April 2012
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BBC News - 'Dark tourism' study centre launched by... →
“Dark tourism” - where visitors travel to sites of death, brutality and terror - is to be the subject of a dedicated centre for academic research at the University of Central Lancashire.
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The Science of Quieter Cities - Design - The... →
Demographic projections [suggest that] more young people want to move into cities, more baby-boomers want to downsize there, more demand for apartments is coming, and more people want to relocate in close proximity to prizes like metro stops.
If all of this is accurate, and even more people will soon be living on top of and right next to each other – while sharing sidewalks, roads and public...
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G&G Me With a Buccellati Silver Spoon! The OA... →
This strikes me as pretty embarrassing — something that should have been written in a notebook, not in public.
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Diana Kimball: Global Ambitions: Atlanta's 1895... →
Comprising an elite group of bankers, industrialists, politicians, merchants, and newspapermen, characters such as Charles Collier and Rufus Bullock embodied the spirit of a place they insisted on calling the New South.
A rhetorical invention, the idea of the “New South” itself represented aspiration more accurately than reality: in 1895, thirty years after the close of the Civil War, the...
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The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » College Degree... →
This points out one of the negatives often highlighted about these cities, namely that they are getting more exclusive as increasingly you need to be in the educated elite to be able to live there (or at least to make it worth living there). This might be good for those cities at some level, but I’m not sure it’s entirely good for America.
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Design Ethos: Day One - Core77 →
Hm.
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New groups, new efforts focus on Waters Avenue... →
It is the latest of several revitalization efforts that have stretched over decades, and it is part of a new wave of efforts developing from residents and business owners who say they must have a louder voice and a greater stake in decisions that are made.
The interesting phrase here, particularly given that this is a local news story that otherwise takes the expected rah rah tone, is:...
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America's foolish detour into shopping malls |... →
As for big regional shopping malls, almost no new malls are being built any more anywhere in the country. In fact there are scores of malls that are dead and abandoned. Many others are on life-support and are close to being boarded up or redeveloped into more productive use. Here in Puget Sound, the last regional mall built was Silverdale, almost 20 years ago — even though the central Puget...
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Freakonomics » The Cities of America’s Future →
Writing inForeign Policy, James Manyika, Jaana Remes, and Javier Orellana of the McKinsey Global Institute argue that cities in general and particularly smaller cities will power the new U.S. economy.
Examples of “smaller cities” include Austin and Raleigh.
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New Orleans's post-Katrina artistic revival is in... →
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swissmiss | Walk [Your City] →
WALK [YOUR CITY] is a Kickstarter project by Raleigh based Matt Tomasulo that is trying to get America walking. Consider it “guerilla wayfinding” that helps soon-to-be pedestrians find their way from place to place. The funds will go to create an open source tool that will enable anyone to create and print simple signs that indicate how many minutes by foot it takes to get to a certain...
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WatchSumi Chang of the Pasadena bakery Euro Pane has been playing around with English muffins lately, in between her experiments with macarons in flavors known to neither man nor gods, and what she has come up with has all the characteristics of an ordinary muffin, and will absorb all the butter and jam you care to throw at it, but also has the solidity, the presence of a far nobler loaf. (via Object...
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"Tragically Mainstream" Dallas Ranks Last in... →
Travel + Leisure magazine has ranked Dallas last in a list of 35 hipster-friendly cities.
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A year after letting food trucks park in Arts... →
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chicago city guide {UPDATE} | Design*Sponge →
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Why Don't Conservative Cities Walk? →
New York, San Francisco, and Boston, the top three major cities on Walkscore.com, are three of the most liberal cities in the country. In fact, the top 19 are all in states that voted for Obama in 2008. The lowest-scoring major cities, by comparison, tilt conservative: Three of the bottom four—Jacksonville, Oklahoma City, and Fort Worth—went for McCain. What explains the correlation? Don’t...
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Review: Maurepas Foods | Restaurant Review |... →
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Welcome to Mediocre, Texas | MichaelCorcoran.net →
Only the mediocre are always at their best, someone said, which could be why Austin is so damn proud of itself. Welcome to Mediocre, Texas, the home of Harry Knowles, the bats, Bright Light Social Hour, Jeffrey’s, dog-friendly patios, KGSR, the weekly 10K fun run and street closer, “country legend” Ray Benson, the pot luck architecture of E. 11th St. and bands playing at the restaurant when you...
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Seeking Pedestrian Advocates in L.A., Where People... →
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The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » Providence: The... →
Whether it is the Beehive of Industry, the Renaissance City, or the Creative Capital, this city has been changing hats for centuries. That isn’t a typo, this place is old. Not unlike other rust belt cities, Providence has been struggling to shake off the ashes of the golden age of manufacturing in favor of greener pastures. In each pursuit to reinvent itself every decade or so, this town...
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The Urbanophile: Detroit on Film →
The power of “Brand Detroit.” I’ve talked about it many times. It’s the power of a city that draws the world’s attention. Not all of it good, but attention nevertheless. In a region of cities that all too often see themselves as lacking identity to themselves much less a brand in the world, Detroit stands apart. Like a Chicago or Los Angeles, the stories of Detroit overflow the page. This is a...
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