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Slow Cities"Supporters of Italy's "Slow City" movement are trying to develop livable cities, banning cars from city centers and blocking McDonald's branches and supermarkets. The movement is spreading across Europe and is now taking off in Asia."
Urban Noise GenerationA £1m, three-year research project to build a database of noises that people say improve their environment. It will translate those findings into design principles to help architects create sweeter-sounding cities.
First We Kill the Architects...then we burn the malls, along with 8 other steps. A photographer as urban planner. Interesting.
German Town Scraps Road Signs to Increase SafetyEventually I'll get around to finishing the EPIC post I've been working on about "shared space" (wow, I just waaay over-built that one up) but for now read this and as a primer... and yes there will be a test on this.
London and New York in battle to be ... Capital of CoolWait a sec... I thought that London wasn't cool anymore... that's what that Spiegel article I Clipped two weeks ago said. So confroozing...
You're Euro, you're cool... where are you?If you're in London or Berlin, apparently you're NOT all that. [slideshow]
Building The World's Largest Urban Rail Transit SystemThe Chinese can get stuff done when it comes to infrastructure projects... 36 Chinese cities are on the fast track to building rail-based mass transit system.
Chinese eco-city heralds revolution in urban living"A new urban concept for an entirely sustainable city that would minimally impact the surrounding environment."
British pub endangeredIt seems that the British institution is under pressure from (among other things) redevelopment. I'm going to go cry in my beer now.
Angkor was a city ahead of its time"The ancient Khmer city of Angkor in Cambodia was the largest preindustrial metropolis in the world, with a population near 1 million and an urban sprawl that stretched over an area similar to modern-day Los Angeles."
Video: City SlickersA city is the sum of its parts... Monocle complies list of the top 25 urban elements that make a city.
Southern California is becoming a tight fitIn the LA LA land of the 'burbs, construction of condos and apartments is rapidly overtaking that of single-family residences.
The downside of diversity"A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life. What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth?"
Walk ScoreA website which uses Google Maps to answer the question "How walkable is your house?" An imperfect, but very interesting mapping idea.
Ghost Cities Of 2100An interesting speculation of cities which may be lost in the future to migration, climate change, and/or economic factors. [slideshow]
Sum of its partsA pedestrian walkway is a shining example of incremental development to create a vibrant urban space with a unique sense of place... 30 years in the making without a master plan. Imagine...
Parking PublicParking Public is a research initiative documenting specific histories of parking lot development as it relates to the more general ideology of utopian capitalism.
New RuralismA new development in North Florida seeks inspiration in 12th century Germany. 600 homes would be divvied up into European-style "hamlets" with garden plots surrounded by acres of pasture, crop land and orchards. Good old fashioned rural sprawl.
Street SectionsArchidose discovers StreetSections.com, an online resource featuring photos and sections of streets contributed by registered users.
30 Architects Sound Off about New York’s Future"New New York: Fast Forward," is an ambitious multi-media exhibit at The Architectural League of New York, on now through May 5 at the Urban Center. A gallery full of DVD players screens interviews with 30 architects. [video clip]