9 month ago
nelson : Lagos: the megacity - Fascinating and frightening story of a chaotic 8 million person city
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12 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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17 month ago
WillPate : World population now more urban than rural - Today is a milestone
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17 month ago
factoryjoe : Urban Dirty: Free texture stock photography for your artwork, desktop and design - Free texture stock photography for your artwork, designs and desktops Tags: texture, stock photography, urban, graphics
Cameron Moll : Urban Dirty - Urban Dirty, free texture stock photography for your artwork, designs and desktops.
Richard Rutter : Urban Dirty textures - Free texture stock photography for your artwork, designs and desktops.
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17 month ago
deusx : Los Angeles demands goats for fire safety | 1947project - "Goats are economical, ecological fire-fighting machines that produce fertilizer as they clear hills and canyons of weeds, poison oak and dry chaparral. Additionally, the animals are charming, newsworthy ambassadors for fire safety, a subject that ne
jimray : L.A. wants to use goats to prevent more fires - Goats eat the "out of control" underbrush. But who eats the goats when *they* get outta control?
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22 month ago
cameron : SkyscraperPage - Beautiful 3D pixel-art for all of the tallest buildings in the world, and some being built. I'm not sure how I missed this before.
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deusx : YouTube - Broadcast Yourself - Search results for 'ghost ride da whip' - It's like a parade of morons!
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30 month ago
jcgregorio : Backstory: What is the value of a tree? - Our real-estate-wise 'hot' sub-division is getting it's boost in part from all the trees we all planted 8 years ago.
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30 month ago
jcgregorio : Celebrated author, urban activist Jane Jacobs dead at age 89 - Author of "The Death and Life of Great American Cities", one of my favorite books.
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32 month ago
deusx : Gendal World: How to avoid crashing into strangers without slowing down - ""
kellan : How to avoid crashing into strangers without slowing down - Lifehacking at it's finest. As a dedicate of foot-based urban transporation I've developed a number of these strategies. #
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32 month ago
deusx : thedetroiter.com - Detroit. Demolition. Disneyland. - "These buildings aren't scenery. Don't look through or around them. Take action. Pick up a roller. Pick up a brush. Apply orange."
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WillPate : One Day Vancouver - "One day is about taking small steps to make Vancouver the cleanest, greenest, healthiest city in the world"
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37 month ago
WillPate : New York City Skyline - Cool panoramic 360 image of the NY skyline
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43 month ago
deusx : Alliance Against Urban 4x4s - "Not safe - not clean - not cool"
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48 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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