1. 9 May


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  2. 9 May


    titularhumour:

    eozberk:

    Great video visualizations demonstrate bicycle innovations being made in Montréal, the only North American showing (#11) on the Copenhagenize Index of Bicycle-Friendly Cities. The videos are beautiful, and offer a taste of urban planning jargon in French.

    Cool. This is a very unfriendly underpass today.

     

  3. 9 May


    brain-food:

    Map Portraits
    by Ed Fairburn

    (via si-dramatic)

     

  4. 9 May


    wemakebelieve:

    fckyeahhplovecraft:

    IAt The Mountains of Madness Ilustrated by Enrique Breccia.

    Whoa. These are fantastic.

    Amazing!!

     

  5. 7 May


    good: In 1897, a Bicycle Superhighway Was the Future of California Transit- Yasha Wallin posted in Transportation, Bikes and Biking In 1897, a wealthy American businessman named Horace Dobbins began construction on a private, for-profit bicycle superhighway that would stretch from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles. It may seem like a preposterous notion now—everyone knows Angelenos don’t get out of their cars—but at the time, amidst the height of a pre-automobile worldwide cycling boom, the idea attracted the attention of some hugely powerful players. And it almost got built. Continue to vice.com

    good:

    In 1897, a Bicycle Superhighway Was the Future of California Transit
    - Yasha Wallin posted in Transportation, Bikes and Biking

    In 1897, a wealthy American businessman named Horace Dobbins began construction on a private, for-profit bicycle superhighway that would stretch from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles. It may seem like a preposterous notion now—everyone knows Angelenos don’t get out of their cars—but at the time, amidst the height of a pre-automobile worldwide cycling boom, the idea attracted the attention of some hugely powerful players. And it almost got built.

    Continue to vice.com

    (via jamesjgm)

     

  6. 7 May


    This may be my favorite picture that I took in New York. The couple kissing. The Yankees hats and the guy right in the center. After I shot this we gave each other a nod. It was perfect.

    nickgerber:

    New York City on Rails

    (via secretrepublic)

     

  7. 4 May


    sa-harris: Started reading this yesterday. Kristina places the process of urban planning in the context of New Orleans pre/post Katrina. I have learned a few things from this book about planning that I did not know before.It is well worth the read for anyone interested in planning or in New Orleans. On my long list of planning books I’d like to read.

    sa-harris:

    Started reading this yesterday. Kristina places the process of urban planning in the context of New Orleans pre/post Katrina. I have learned a few things from this book about planning that I did not know before.

    It is well worth the read for anyone interested in planning or in New Orleans.

    On my long list of planning books I’d like to read.

     

  8. 2 May



    Court Ruling Means UK Cities May Need to Ban Cars

    The UK faces European fines and British cities may have to ban cars to dramatically reduce harmful effects of air pollution

    The UK’s supreme court ruled this week that the government has failed to live up to its legal obligation to curb air pollution, in breach of an EU air quality directive.

     

  9. 2 May


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  10. 2 May



    The World’s Largest Rubber Duck Arrives in Hong Kong | Colossal

    Grandiose, whimsical, postmodern.

    From the art project’s website: 

    The Rubber Duck knows no frontiers, it doesn’t discriminate people and doesn’t have a political connotation. The friendly, floating Rubber Duck has healing properties: it can relieve mondial tensions as well as define them. The rubber duck is soft, friendly and suitable for all ages!

     

  11. 22 Apr


    architectureofdoom:

    Achterland/Hinterland, the Netherlands, Hans van der Meer

    Those are some highly ordinary Dutch landscapes. 

    (via jamesjgm)

     

  12. 19 Apr


    Utrecht is changing. (bij Station Utrecht Centraal)

    Utrecht is changing. (bij Station Utrecht Centraal)

     

  13. 19 Apr


    An urban juxtaposition #utrecht #urbanism (bij Moreelsepark)

    An urban juxtaposition #utrecht #urbanism (bij Moreelsepark)

     

  14. 18 Apr



    USING ART TO RELIEVE BICYCLE CONGESTION

    The Dutch city of Utrecht is no stranger to a phenomenon called “bicycle congestion”—a situation where infrastructural facilities for cyclists are used so much that their efficiency starts to suffe…

    My latest blogpost on PlaNYourCity.net examines a pilot program the Dutch City of Utrecht is employing to combat heavy congestion on bikelanes.

     

  15. 10 Apr



    UrbanRelations.Info: Parsing Margaret Thatcher's Architectural Legacy

    urbanrelationsinfo:

    According to Anna Winston, the former prime minister’s impact on the architecture profession was huge. With the redevelopment of Canary Wharf, for example, her administration gave a leg up to Cesar Pelli, Sir Norman Foster and SOM, among others.

    Winston points five of the significant effects…

    (Source: bdonline.co.uk, via urbanrelationsinfo)