Links tagged with “cities”
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A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (VersoBooks.com)
Oh, that looks good doesn’t it. Fills a gap that I now realise was aching to be filled.
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Cognitive Cities Conference, 26. & 27. February, Berlin
Could be interesting, and is in Berlin, and has Hammersley, Greenfield, Voss and others I don’t know. (via @mattb)
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An Invisible Empire of Sidewalks and Gutterspace
The possibilities of fishing in old streams beneath New York, and a man who bought many tiny slivers of land across the city.
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Stratigraphies of Infestation
For both the anecdotes about New York’s rats and the anecdotes about the levels of underground old New York where the rats live.
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Free Map of London (Communities and Open Space Survey) 1943 from the Probert Encyclopaedia Map Archive
More precise than the previous 1943 map of London areas and/but very nice. (via Blech)
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Scattered Satellites - Purdom, Abercrombie, Hilberseimer, MARS - Links
Click the thumbnail of the 1943 ‘The County of London Plan’. Lovely, lovely map of London’s rough areas, as queried earlier (thanks Blech).
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CBRD » Histories » Ringways » Background » Wartime plans
I like the colours of the County Of London Plan, 1943.
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Utopia London
Awesome-looking film, about post-war modernist housing development in London. There’s a screening near Farringdon on 14 Dec. Also, where’s the map in the ‘About’ section from? (via City of Sound)
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Thisisntfuckingdalston.co.uk
Lovely kind of cross-section of psycho-geographic-neighbourhoods or something. I’d love to see lots more of these. (via Tom Taylor)
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Volubilis, Morocco (34.090556,-5.554722 - Google Maps)
Really quite amazed at this aerial photo of the Roman ruins of Volubilis. You can see the streets, outlines of buildings, etc. Incredible.
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Anthony Lau, Floating City 2030: Thames Estuary Aquatic Urbanism - a set on Flickr
A project to visualise a floating city in the Thames Estuary. Lovely images. (via BLDGBLOG)
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CityEngine
I love watching this kind of stuff. “And… generate the buildings.” (via City of Sound)
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Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: Saving Britain’s Past
This really is a good programme, with a nice balance of old and modern. And no struggling to make stories over-dramatic, like too many documentaries these days.
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County of london plan 1945 - a set on Flickr
“excerpts from a small booklet explaining the ideas behind the official County of London Plan.” Lovely.
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Notes.husk.org. The City Of London Highwalks.
Paul Mison’s starting some writing about the raised pedestrian walkways in the City of London. Good stuff.
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The dark side of Dubai - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
Long, but really worth a read. (via Tom Taylor)
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Op-Ed Contributor - For Sale - The $100 House - NYTimes.com
This is fascinating, showing a way the make-up of parts of cities could change drastically due to the recession. Although I wonder whether the journalist is extrapolating from an isolated one-off incident. (via Kottke)
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Get Your Walk Score - A Walkability Score For Any Address
Interesting idea for measuring how walkable the area around an address is. Despite appearances it appears to work with UK addresses too.
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The Demon-Haunted World
Matt Jones’ thought-provoking presentation on urbanisation and digitalisation: practical city magic. Great stuff.
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Urban Sketchers
I’m very much enjoying this so far. A group weblog from dozens of sketching people in cities around the world. Some inspiring stuff.
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Last Call, Bohemia: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com
Christopher Hitchens on gentrification, New York’s West Village, London’s Soho, etc. (via Kottke, yes I’m catching up on a lot of Kottke)
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Die Stadt, Frans Masereel, 1925
Great wood cuts. (via City of Sound)
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The New York Review of Books: City Lights
Review of Tristram Hunt’s ‘Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City’. Were things better when wealthy Victorians did things for the plebs? (Subscribers only unfortunately)
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BLDGBLG: Interview with Mike Davis: Part 1
This sounds good. Must read it next week. (via Blackbeltjones)
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Cityofsound: Savile Row and tailoring urban fabric
Great post from Dan about how developers/landlords squander centuries of space-specific history and community in favour of short-term profit.