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June 2009

Competition : WPA 2.0

by karlcow

cityLAB, an urban think tank at UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design, announces a call for entries to “WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture.” WPA 2.0 is an open competition that seeks innovative, implementable proposals to place infrastructure at the heart of rebuilding our cities during this next era of metropolitan recovery.

a456: Designing The Friendly Skies

by jeanruaud
Last week, articles in The Daily Mail and Gizmodo concerned that most improbable of objects: an Airbus A380 jumbo jet outfitted with custom luxury interiors. As an airborne palace to be built to the tune of $485 million for Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, the Airbus is proof that even a seemingly limitless budget can transcend the limits of conspicuous consumption. It is not uncommon to hear about palatial homes and even cities created for personal use. Such spending and extravagance boggle the mind. Yet one would be hard pressed to find an object that demonstrates ostentation like a private airplane.

The journey of mine: Gaza-Sderot (the tales of two cities)

by srcmax (via)
The website of the videos..... the feelings and the lives of the people living in Israel....and Palestine

Mannahatta » Home

by jeanruaud (via)
Ever wondered what New York like before it was a city? Welcome to Mannahatta, 1609. Now, after nearly a decade of research, the Mannahatta Project at the Wildlife Conservation Society has un-covered the original ecology of Manhattan. That's right, the center of one of the world's largest and most built-up cities was once a natural landscape of hills, valleys, forests, fields, freshwater wetlands, salt marshes, beaches, springs, ponds and streams, supporting a rich and abundant community of wildlife and sustaining people for perhaps 5000 years before Europeans arrived on the scene in 1609

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May 2009

Dopplr | The Social Atlas

by karlcow

Dopplr helps you share your personal and business travel plans privately with your network, and exchange tips on places to stay, eat and explore in cities around the world. Dopplr presents this collective intelligence - the travel patterns and advice of the world’s most frequent travellers - as the Social Atlas.

Here & There in Manhattan on Vimeo

by karlcow

This video is part of a project looking at cities and maps. More can be found on the project at schulzeandwebb.com/hat

Storefront for Art and Architecture | Bookstore

by karlcow

This book is the catalogue of 49 Cities,

an exhibition showing at Storefront

from 14 April to 30 May 2009

About - Open Source Urbanism

by karlcow

Cities are the physical manifestation of flows of people, material, money, and increasingly, information. The city is both a product and a generator of these flows. Much of this information – such as temperature, train delays, population density, accident locations and stock prices – is mapped, recorded and broadcast in real-time through the Internet. This data is superimposed on the physical city as a dense digital cloud.

Here & There — a horizonless projection in Manhattan

by karlcow & 2 others

Here & There is a project by S&W exploring speculative projections of dense cities. These maps of Manhattan look uptown from 3rd and 7th, and downtown from 3rd and 35th. They're intended to be seen at those same places, putting the viewer simultaneously above the city and in it where she stands, both looking down and looking forward.

Invincible Cities

by karlcow & 1 other
"A visual encyclopedia of the American Ghetto" by photographer Camilo José Vergara and Howard Gillette.

Here & There — a horizonless projection in Manhattan

by Spone & 2 others
Here & There is a project by S&W exploring speculative projections of dense cities. These maps of Manhattan look uptown from 3rd and 7th, and downtown from 3rd and 35th. They're intended to be seen at those same places, putting the viewer simultaneously above the city and in it where she stands, both looking down and looking forward.

Restaurants, Hotels, Travel and Vacations - Ruba.com

by Regis (via)
Travel guides are a dime a dozen on the web. But for the most part, they’re not very conducive to really exploring - it’s not much fun to click through various guides to get a feel for where you’d like to visit, because each guide is loaded with a wall of text. Ruba, a new travel site that launches today, is looking to offer users a way to visually browse through cities and their attractions around the world, offering photo-rich guides and an emphasis on making it easy to quickly discover new locations.

April 2009

Storefront for Art and Architecture |

by karlcow

Through plans, sections, diagrams, charts and scale drawings,

49 cities are observed statistically and presented in an unprecedented comparative study, the result of a research project conducted over

several years. Despite the fact that they never actually existed, this history of utopian urbanism provides a remarkable insight into our

understanding of the contemporary metropolis.

Online many places get a new layer of reality. Fictional or not.

March 2009

The places we live

by gregg & 2 others
The year 2008 has witnessed a major shift in the way people across the world live: for the first time in human history more people live in cities than in rural areas. This triumph of the urban, however, does not entirely represent progress, as the number of people living in urban slums—often in abject conditions—will soon exceed one billion. From 2005 to 2007 Jonas Bendiksen documented life in the slums of four different cities: Nairobi, Kenya; Mumbai, India; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Caracas, Venezuela. His lyrical images capture the diversity of personal histories and outlooks found in these dense neighborhoods that, despite commonly held assumptions, are not simply places of poverty and misery. Yet, slum residents continuously face enormous challenges, such as the lack of health care, sanitation, and electricity. The Places We Live includes twenty double-gatefold images, each representing an individual home and its denizen’s story. Through its innovative design and experiential approach, The Places We Live brings the modern-day Dickensian reality of these individuals into sharp focus.

Google Street View Time Lapse on Flickr

by philippej (via)
"... an idea for a website that automatically creates time lapse videos of drives through cities using images from the Street View feature of Google Maps. This is a rough example of what it might look like."

Gaza-Sderot: A Tale of Two Cities - TIME

by srcmax
Gaza-Sderot captures daily life on both sides of the border in the days before Israel's military campaign

February 2009

Rooftop gardens project | liberating spaces for healthy cities

by karlcow

The Rooftop Gardening Project is an innovative partnership between Alternatives, an international cooperation network, and Santropol Roulant, a community organisation in Montreal. Together we are making widespread rooftop gardening a reality in Montreal and around the world. Our novel soil-less gardens empower urban residents to produce their own food, green their neighbourhoods and build healthy communities.

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