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This Is Why We’re Broke
The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » This Is Why We’re Broke. Plain and simple, this is why we’re broke. As Banas put it, “same number of people, three times as much stuff” (to pay for). Related articles It’s the Sprawl, Stupid … Continue reading
SandStone Road by Thomas Kosbau & Andrew Wetzler » Yanko Design
Asphalt has been used for the last 80 years. It greatly contributes to the urban heat island effect, reaching peak temperatures of 48–67°C. At current consumption levels, approximately 28,000,000 barrels of crude oil were required to create South Korea’s 86,990 … Continue reading
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Tagged Asphalt, Goddard Space Flight Center, Gulf of Mexico, NASA, Sandstone, South Korea, United States, Urban heat island
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Worst and best commutes in America
Worst and best commutes in America.
Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia
Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia | Video on TED.com. Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years’ big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead “big box” stores re-inhabited, parking lots transformed into thriving … Continue reading
Laying the track for high-speed rail
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the second round of recipients selected to receive funding for intercity rail projects under the administration’s High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail Program on October 28, 2010. These projects will bring us one step closer to realizing … Continue reading
Urban Drifting
Inspired by the Situationists, Serendipitor is a free app that utilizes Google Map’s API to “find something by looking for something else.” Begin by entering a destination, from which Serendipitor suggests various routes, which are shorter or longer, depending on … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Fluxus, Google, iPhone, map, situanist, Vito Acconci, Yoko Ono
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Zaha Hadid Architects and the Neoliberal Avant-Garde
Is it possible to be both builders of the prestige spaces of capital and self-declared avant-gardists? Owen Hatherley takes a look at the fluid architecture and financial times of Zaha Hadid Architects This summer, there was an exhibition at the … Continue reading
10 Urban Visionaries Who Aren’t Jane Jacobs
Andrés Duany Ellen Dunham-Jones Jan Gehl Roberta Brandes Gratz Léon Krier Janette Sadie-Khan Jaime Lerner Carol Coletta Larry Beasley James Howard Kunstler via 10 Urban Visionaries Who Aren’t Jane Jacobs. Related articles New Urbanist Leader Andrés Duany is Coming to … Continue reading
Creating Roads From Sand and Bacteria Instead of Oil
Improving America’s infrastructure has been a major priority for the Obama Administration, with a lot of money going into repairing the country’s roads and bridges. The problem is that currently most roads are constructed from asphalt, a material made from … Continue reading
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Tagged Asphalt, Fossil fuel, Inhabitat, Road, Roman roads, sand, United States
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V&A at Dundee
In the economic age of “new sobriety,” architecture can be freed from the struggle between form and function by emphasizing performance instead—a hybrid that doesn’t discriminate between program, organization, and form. The measure of performance is relative to each project’s … Continue reading
Lightwave / AnL Studio
The Parklands, South Bank, Brisbane, Australia, has played host to Lightwave, a sensory light installation at the Unlimited festival. At 10m x 16m x 5.5m, Lightwave is not just a sculpture or an art piece, but an object that can … Continue reading
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Tagged ahnkee, AnL studio, Australia, Brisbane, Lightwave, South Bank
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