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Why I love Seattle. http://en.ilovecoffee.jp/posts/view/34

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:34:54 -0500

Why I love Seattle.

http://en.ilovecoffee.jp/posts/view/34

Changing The Perspective

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 22:57:53 -0500

What if all planning decisions were made from the sidewalk?

I mean literally, from the sidewalk. Like modern day inspectors, our planners and respective planning commissioners should walk the site, the neighborhood, perhaps knock on a few doors, and then make recommendations.

"What is the city but the people?"

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:13:42 -0500

“What is the city but the people?”

- William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (via entrappedspaces)

"Producing urban space necessarily involves reproducing the social relations that are bound up in it...."

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:13:26 -0500

“Producing urban space necessarily involves reproducing the social relations that are bound up in it. The production of urban space therefore entails much more than just planning the material space of the city; it involves producing and reproducing all aspects of urban life.”

- Mark Purcell “Excavating Lefevbre: The right to the city and its urban politics of the inhabitant” (2002) 58 GeoJournal 99 at 100.

(via urbanjoburg)

The Gay Affect On The Highline

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:11:39 -0500

The Gay Affect On The Highline

Heartland Flyer Ridership Up 6% -- Twice the National Average

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:06:00 -0500

Heartland Flyer Ridership Up 6% -- Twice the National Average

urbanination: Bicycle roundabout in Eindhoven, the...

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:02:41 -0500

urbanination:

Bicycle roundabout in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

"There are cities that remain mere distant visual images when remembered, and cities that are..."

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 21:38:47 -0500

“There are cities that remain mere distant visual images when remembered, and cities that are remembered in all their vivacity. The memory re-evokes the delightful city with all its sounds and smells and variations of light and shade. I can even choose whether to walk on the sunny side or the shaded side of the street in the pleasurable city of my remembrance. The real measure of the quality of a city is whether one can imagine falling in love in it.”

- Juhani Pallasmaa / The Eyes of the Skin (via woonder)

Streets as a stage

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:57:32 -0500

Streets are the stage of the city that need complimenting dressings; engineered correctly, they fashion a perfect theater that propels and amplifies the sights, sounds, and success of urbanity.

Playing in the shadow of The Devon Tower (Taken with Instagram...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:59:32 -0500

Playing in the shadow of The Devon Tower (Taken with Instagram at Bicentennial Park)

Ian kept a close guy on the man painting outside the window. ...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:54:49 -0500

Ian kept a close guy on the man painting outside the window. (Taken with Instagram at Deep Deuce Apartments)

"More and more the spaces of the modern city are being produced for us rather than by us."

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:15:57 -0500

“More and more the spaces of the modern city are being produced for us rather than by us.”

- Don Mitchell The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space (2003) at 18. (via urbanjoburg)

Taken with Instagram at Lookout Point

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:28:09 -0500

Taken with Instagram at Lookout Point

Rainbow over Seattle (Taken with Instagram at Kerry Park)

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:26:06 -0500

Rainbow over Seattle (Taken with Instagram at Kerry Park)

"If a child is struck and killed by a car in 2012, it is treated as a private loss, to be grieved..."

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:10:20 -0500

““If a child is struck and killed by a car in 2012, it is treated as a private loss, to be grieved privately by the family,” Norton says. “Before, this stuff was treated as a public loss – much like the death of soldiers.” Mayors dedicated monuments to the victims of traffic crimes, accompanied by marching bands and children dressed in white, carrying flowers.”

- A fascinating history of pedestrian deaths, and how they were effectively decriminalized by the auto industry

The Invention of Jaywalking - Commute - The Atlantic Cities

(via felixsalmon)

urbanination: The design proposal for Navy Pier in Chicago by...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:09:44 -0500

urbanination:

The design proposal for Navy Pier in Chicago by James Corner, the same man behind the High Line in New York.

urbnfutr: urbanination: Really interesting, I wonder...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:03:45 -0500

urbnfutr:

urbanination:

Really interesting, I wonder how plausible that is?

There’s been plans to do something like this to an abandoned mall here in Albuquerque, but due to the economy it’s been watered down to a movie theatre, some restaurants, and still a sea of parking with no housing in sight.

And what’s with the moat in this? Protected island in the event of a zombie apocalypse?

librar-y: The busy crowd on State Street, Chicago between...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:50:40 -0500

librar-y:

The busy crowd on State Street, Chicago between 1910-1920.

A nice way to create traction grid. This is supposed to...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:38:26 -0500

A nice way to create traction grid. This is supposed to reperesent city streets but could it be used on accessibility ramps

citiesandme: How you may live and travel in the City of...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:55:41 -0500

citiesandme:

How you may live and travel in the City of 1950

thisfinecity:

What people in 1925 thought the world would look like in 1950… crazy! http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/mar/13/future-cities-graphic-1925