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philgyford : CityEngine - I love watching this kind of stuff. "And... generate the buildings." (via City of Sound)
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philgyford : Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: Saving Britain's Past - This really is a good programme, with a nice balance of old and modern. And no struggling to make stories over-dramatic, like too many documentaries these days.
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philgyford : County of london plan 1945 - a set on Flickr - "excerpts from a small booklet explaining the ideas behind the official County of London Plan." Lovely.
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philgyford : Notes.husk.org. The City Of London Highwalks. - Paul Mison's starting some writing about the raised pedestrian walkways in the City of London. Good stuff.
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nelson : Sanborn Maps - Crazy-detailed maps of cities from 1867-1970
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philgyford : The dark side of Dubai - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent - Long, but really worth a read. (via Tom Taylor)
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philgyford : Op-Ed Contributor - For Sale - The $100 House - NYTimes.com - This is fascinating, showing a way the make-up of parts of cities could change drastically due to the recession. Although I wonder whether the journalist is extrapolating from an isolated one-off incident. (via Kottke)
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philgyford : Get Your Walk Score - A Walkability Score For Any Address - Interesting idea for measuring how walkable the area around an address is. Despite appearances it appears to work with UK addresses too.
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philgyford : The Demon-Haunted World - Matt Jones' thought-provoking presentation on urbanisation and digitalisation: practical city magic. Great stuff.
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WillPate : Richard Florida: How the Crash Will Reshape America - The Atlantic
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philgyford : Urban Sketchers - I'm very much enjoying this so far. A group weblog from dozens of sketching people in cities around the world. Some inspiring stuff.
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20 month ago
philgyford : Last Call, Bohemia: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com - Christopher Hitchens on gentrification, New York's West Village, London's Soho, etc. (via Kottke, yes I'm catching up on a lot of Kottke)
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Extraordinary pixel-art map of Hong Kong that you can browse and explore just like Google/Yahoo Maps... - It's really beautiful. I've spent at least an hour roaming around it over the last few days.
nelson : Hong Kong, pixelart - Amazing map
Andy Baio : Isometric pixel map of Hong Kong - insanely detailed with some odd photo collage bits; try the highest zoom level [via]
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29 month ago
deusx : Kung Fu Monkey: Farm Fetish - "I am just, I guess, well and truly tired of being told what "Middle America" wants, when Middle America is my age and lives in a goddam city, just like I have for my entire life."
Greg Storey : "...only 17% of Americans live in rural settings anymore. Only 2 million of those people work on farms or ranches..." - So who's buying all those damn pick-up trucks?
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37 month ago
jcgregorio : Memos Tell Officials How to Discuss Climate - New York Times - politboro
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37 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Confessions of an Empty-Nester - Confessions of an Empty-Nester: the tale of how a couple moved downtowm from the burbs
jimray : Confessions of an empty-nester - Couple moves from the 'burbs to downtown Seattle and are pretty much loving it
jcgregorio : Confessions of an Empty-Nester - Zillow Blog - I sometimes wonder if the city is the "new small town", and if this is true of all cities or just special ones like Seattle and Portland.
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37 month ago
philgyford : Die Stadt, Frans Masereel, 1925 - Great wood cuts. (via City of Sound)
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40 month ago
philgyford : World Map - countries of the world - Educational map game (my geography is terrible). (via Haddock)
plasticbag : Identify the countries of the world in a big Flash World Map Game! - I got 36. I can't tell if that's good or not. I suspect it's not the greatest.
jkottke : Test: how well can you pick out countries on a map of the world? - Test yourself: how well can you pick out countries on a map of the world? I got a 59 my first time through...better than I thought I would do. (via plasticbag) [via]
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46 month ago
philgyford : The New York Review of Books: City Lights - Review of Tristram Hunt's 'Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City'. Were things better when wealthy Victorians did things for the plebs? (Subscribers only unfortunately)
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46 month ago
philgyford : BLDGBLG: Interview with Mike Davis: Part 1 - This sounds good. Must read it next week. (via Blackbeltjones)
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51 month ago
Andy Baio : "The city as an avatar of itself" - aerial city photos that very much resemble scale models
erikbenson : "The city as an avatar of itself" - I love these toy-like pictures of cities.
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52 month ago
philgyford : Cityofsound: Savile Row and tailoring urban fabric - Great post from Dan about how developers/landlords squander centuries of space-specific history and community in favour of short-term profit.
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58 month ago
plasticbag : London is the third most expensive city to live in in the world, only beaten by Tokyo and Osaka - "The annual report released in London Monday ranked cities based on the comparative cost of more than 200 items including housing, public and private transport, food, clothing and entertainment."
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65 month ago
plasticbag : Awesome animation of a man walking composed out of stencilled imagery - From a presentation by Timo at Design Engaged. Everyone went ooooooh. I particularly like the fact that you can pause it at any point through and see what it's been tagged onto.
Steve Cook : Town-walking robot stencil - Holy crow, is this a gorgeous project. A graffiti flipbook of a man/robot walking integrates into the city around it.
cameron : Graffiti animation - Using stenciled graffiti to make an animation
Nelson Minar : Animated graffiti - Flash animation, music (via Metafilter)
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