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Instant City: Rethinking Democratic Space
Barack Obama recently held a rally in Waterfront Park in Portland, Oregon to garner support for the upcoming primary in Oregon. Crowd estimates by the fire department show 75,000 people in attendance. The Washington Post, in their coverage of this event, considers the record crowd to be the size of a city.
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Quantifying Walkable Urbanism
Walkable urbanism is the new buzzword in community planning and development. Websites are dedicated to neighborhood walks, the brookings institute has a collection of several articles by Chris Leinberger, and now you can even check the walkable score of your own neighborhood.
[Image: Walkable urbanism is a new trend in the popular perception of neighborhoods. […]
Socially Engineering the City of Masdar
A couple weeks ago Edwin Gardner, of prss release and Volume Magazine, asked me to expand upon my post on Masdar for the forthcoming issue of Volume on social engineering. In response, my article set out to contemplate the role of Masdar in a new wave of designer cities.
[Image: Volume #15: Destination Library. Courtesy […]
Crosswalk Culture
As virtual bridges crossing the overwhelming number of black rivers, crosswalks may someday be an anthropological resource. Within the accompanying urban signage exists a multitude of behavioral indicators.
[Image: The crosswalk in the famous album cover for the Beatles Abbey Road. Courtesy of The Beatles MMT.]
This morning, witnessing suicidal pedestrians, I was reminded of […]
Reflecting on ‘Agents of Urbanism’
This morning, while reading on the subway, I came across a quote that speaks to the ocean in which I am swimming, figuratively that is.
Theory is not written for entertainment, yet when it is a successful and succinct explanation of the inner workings of a formerly confusing phenomenon, it is by its nature absorbing to […]
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