February 2012
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Urville →
French autistic savant’s remarkable imaginary city, 20 years in the making.
via brainpickings.org
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For those of you in MTL next week: →
A thirty-minute film inspired by the Arcade Fire album The Suburbs and directed by Spike Jonze. Living in a suburban dystopia, the narrator tries to piece together fragmented memories from when he was a teenager, and his experiences with his friends as they grow apart.
16 February 2012, 7:00 pm - Free Admission! Paul-Desmarais Theatre (Canadian Center for Architecture)
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Superbowl + Walkability = Good Times
The best part of the Superbowl was hearing NBC commentator Al Michaels discussing the walkability of host city Indianapolis.
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January 2012
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The possibility of the accidental meeting is what makes the city a fertile...
– David Sucher - City Comforts
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December 2011
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To a large degree, the future urban villages will emerge out of our existing...
– David Sucher, City Comforts
An essential little book for anyone actively engaged in urban design… and a great stocking stuffer!
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Luxury of Small →
Washington developers take lessons from Vancouver urban living by building smaller downtown units with better amenities and more functional use of space.
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Cold Canadian Brutalism →
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The Transportation Planning Rule Every City Should... →
Atlantic Cities article outlines the broken metric that is traffic engineering’s Level of Service (LOS):
“In 2003 the San Francisco County Transportation Authority performed a review [PDF] of LOS and concluded that it failed to support the “development of a balanced, multimodal transportation system” — arguing instead that LOS preserved the flow of motor cars at the...
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November 2011
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His previous books “Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere” and “Between...
– Habermas, the Last European: A Philosopher’s Mission to Save the EU - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
It’s worth noting that Der Spiegel has a circulation in Germany of 1.1 million, which is equivalent to a magazine like Time or Newsweek selling more than 4 million copies a week. And yet it...