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Wednesday April 7, 2010
Friday March 12, 2010
Wednesday February 24, 2010
Friday June 26, 2009
Thursday June 11, 2009
Sunday May 3, 2009
Tuesday April 28, 2009
Monday April 27, 2009
Monday April 6, 2009
Saturday January 10, 2009
Istanbul's ancient past unearthed
Neolithic era finds show Istanbul is 6,000 years older than they previously thought. ¶
Friday December 12, 2008
Friday October 31, 2008
The M1 (motorway) appreciation course
You will not be surprised to find out that Alain de Botton is involved. ¶
Thursday March 13, 2008
Friday November 16, 2007
Monday June 18, 2007
Minister rails at China, land of a thousand identical cities
Not just any minister, but the Chinese vice-minister of contstruction... ¶
Friday March 9, 2007
Reach for the skies
Robert Hughes on how a group of architects combined the myths of a glorious past with progress and innovation in Barcelona ¶
Saturday December 16, 2006
OFT blasts government agencies for manipulating the market in public sector information
Data restrictions allegedly cost economy £500m: the Ordnance Survey comes in for particularly virulent criticism. ¶
Friday December 8, 2006
Thursday November 30, 2006
Friday November 17, 2006
A one-way street to postcode madness
An up-to-date list of addresses is vital for local authorities - but they have to pay for the data they created themselves... ¶
Tuesday November 14, 2006
Thursday September 14, 2006
Cyclists wearing helmets are 'more likely to be hit'
Drivers drive closer to men [and further away from women] and drive closer to riders who are wearing helmets ¶
Monday August 14, 2006
Edinburgh Council workers running gauntlet of hate
On average, council workers report abuse five times every day.
So how many times a day are they actually abused? Twenty? Fifty?? ¶
Thursday June 29, 2006
Tuesday June 27, 2006
Saturday June 24, 2006
Wednesday June 21, 2006
The destruction of Beijing’s "hutongs"
Beijing's historic layout, which dates back six hundred years to the time of the Ming Dynasty, consists of hutongs, narrow alleyways that run in a maze-like fashion around the centre of the city. A third of the hutongs have been destroyed in the last three years... ¶
Monday June 12, 2006
The Viele map of Manhattan
[via kottke]What Manhattan looked like before it was "filled in, paved over, dug up and forested with skyscrapers".
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Saturday June 10, 2006
Keep dangerous palms trees off the street, Torbay council told
"Having palm trees is a little bit like keeping tigers" says a Liberal Democrat. ¶
Monday June 5, 2006
Monday May 29, 2006
Drosscape: Wasting Land In Urban America [via theboxtank]
Drosscapes proposes a way of thinking about and approaching dross, or "the landscape leftovers, or wastescapes"...
Sounds like most landscapes to me... ¶
Drosscapes proposes a way of thinking about and approaching dross, or "the landscape leftovers, or wastescapes"...
Sounds like most landscapes to me... ¶
Saturday April 15, 2006
The Golden Age of Skyscrapers
Witold Rybczynski thinks the 21st Century skyscraper is an entirely different being from the 20th Century's modernist and post-modernist stylings... ¶
Witold Rybczynski thinks the 21st Century skyscraper is an entirely different being from the 20th Century's modernist and post-modernist stylings... ¶
Wednesday March 22, 2006
Aryans on the Altar; Swastikas on the Church Bells
Should Berlin's only protestant Nazi-era church be preserved? ¶
Should Berlin's only protestant Nazi-era church be preserved? ¶
Sunday March 19, 2006
Monday March 13, 2006
Public inconvenience
There are 400 public toilets in London, a city of 7.5 million people. Excluding tourists and commuters, that's one for every 18,000 people. ¶
There are 400 public toilets in London, a city of 7.5 million people. Excluding tourists and commuters, that's one for every 18,000 people. ¶
Sunday March 5, 2006
You're nicked ... now please follow me through ladies' lingerie
London's Metropolitan Police to build police cells in Selfridge's Department Store. ¶
London's Metropolitan Police to build police cells in Selfridge's Department Store. ¶
Wednesday January 11, 2006
Monday December 12, 2005
Sunday December 11, 2005
££500 fine proposed if you don't co-operate with council tax inspectors
The only thing worse than Council Tax is... Council Tax Mark 2. I am so glad I don't live in England. ¶
The only thing worse than Council Tax is... Council Tax Mark 2. I am so glad I don't live in England. ¶
Thursday December 8, 2005
Friday December 2, 2005
Sunday November 27, 2005
Saturday November 5, 2005
Gentrifying Disaster
Hurricane Katrina, the New Urbanism, voting rights and racial politics - a pretty toxic combination. ¶
Hurricane Katrina, the New Urbanism, voting rights and racial politics - a pretty toxic combination. ¶
Tuesday October 18, 2005
Monday October 17, 2005
Hurricane evacuees seek help in poverty-stricken regions
"We were suffering [even] before that damn hurricane came" ¶
"We were suffering [even] before that damn hurricane came" ¶
Friday October 14, 2005
U.S. poor trapped in urban areas
"Many of the US's most disadvantaged minority households are trapped in pockets of concentrated urban poverty, preventing them from getting the educations and jobs that would enable them to rise above the poverty line" ¶
"Many of the US's most disadvantaged minority households are trapped in pockets of concentrated urban poverty, preventing them from getting the educations and jobs that would enable them to rise above the poverty line" ¶
Saturday October 8, 2005
Uncool cities
The key to urban prosperity may not revolve around attracting the "hipster set" of gays, twentysomethings and young creatives after all. ¶
The key to urban prosperity may not revolve around attracting the "hipster set" of gays, twentysomethings and young creatives after all. ¶
Tuesday April 12, 2005
More than 8000 headstones in Edinburgh cemeteries have been toppled by council workers as part of a major vandalism programme. ¶
Monday April 11, 2005
The Mall Goes Undercover - It now looks like a city street
Nice to see that our american friends discovering Post-Modern retailing. ¶
Nice to see that our american friends discovering Post-Modern retailing. ¶
The Scourge of "Tuscan"
I live about 25 miles north of Orange County in the old middle of Los Angeles (yes, there is a middle) and while there are many things to like about it, there are a few things to abhor: and one of those things is the creeping encroachment of a new visual style in building — hard to call it architecture — that has already covered Orange County and threatens the visual ecosystem of Los Angeles like an errant weed that blew over in a shipping container from some other place and proceeds to choke out all other organic growth. Some call this style “Tuscan”. ¶
I live about 25 miles north of Orange County in the old middle of Los Angeles (yes, there is a middle) and while there are many things to like about it, there are a few things to abhor: and one of those things is the creeping encroachment of a new visual style in building — hard to call it architecture — that has already covered Orange County and threatens the visual ecosystem of Los Angeles like an errant weed that blew over in a shipping container from some other place and proceeds to choke out all other organic growth. Some call this style “Tuscan”. ¶
Thursday March 31, 2005
Obesity and Urban Design
How to make suburban areas more conducive to walking, biking, and other types of 'active living.' ¶
How to make suburban areas more conducive to walking, biking, and other types of 'active living.' ¶
Monday February 14, 2005
Witold Rybczynski analyses Disney's Celebration - the prototypical new urbanist master planned town. ¶
