“Look around you. Bikes are everywhere: in glamorous ads and fashionable neighborhoods, parked outside art galleries, clubs, office buildings. More and more city workers arrive for work on bikes. The future is visible in the increasing number of bikes you see all over the urban landscape. This simple form of transportation is about to make our city more livable, more human and better connected; New Yorkers are going to love the bike-share program; culturally and physically, our city is perfectly suited for it.” - David Byrne, New York Times
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Picture of Hanshin Expressway, Osaka, from osakanight
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LEGO Forest at Martin Place
Sure it is incredibly kitsch, but it successfully transformed a thoroughfare into a playspace where people would stop rather than just walk through.
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Build Better Cities: now in print!
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Neighborland is an outreach and engagement tool that makes it easy to share a desire or idea with neighbors, community groups, and city planners. The concept is based on installation artist Candy Chang’s famous project tagging buildings in New Orleans with “Before I die…” and “I wish this was…”, with plenty of chalk for passing local residents to reply below.
Also founded in New Orleans, Neighborland takes the conversation online thanks to development support from Tulane University’s Social Entrepreneurship Program and the Rockfeller Foundation. Like other online idea-sharing tools like Mindmixer and Change By Us, Neighborland has been getting a lot of buzz with plans to expand to other cities.
"Street Sexuality" Workshop at the CCA April 14 -
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) would be so much lamer if it were in any other city than Montréal:
“Come on a tour of St. Catherine Street and the surrounding area in a study of how sexuality influences the local landscape with Toronto-based and nationally syndicated sex columnist, Sasha van Bon Bon. Street Sexuality is part of the CCA workshop series Are you allergic to the 21st century?, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture.”
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Water’s Edge Promenade on Toronto’s East Bayfront.
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