Links tagged with “urbanism”
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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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Human landscapes in SW Florida - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Every single aerial photo is stunning, go look. Photos of housing developments, many undeveloped. I wouldn’t want to live in any of them. (via Kottke)
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Let Charles be Charles | Planetizen
In the comments, Dan Hill versus New Urbanists. Interesting. (Comments are in an odd order and the reordering widget doesn’t seem to work.)
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CityEngine
I love watching this kind of stuff. “And… generate the buildings.” (via City of Sound)
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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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Notes.husk.org. All Change On Oxford Street.
Paul Mison on planned improvements to the Oxford Street / Regent Street junction and the horror that is the junction by Centre Point. All looking good (but it’d be hard to be worse).
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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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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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BLDGBLG: Interview with Mike Davis: Part 1
This sounds good. Must read it next week. (via Blackbeltjones)
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Peterme.com: Going Back To South Park, Gonna Have Myself A Time
I have fond memories of staying in the Wired corporate flat on San Francisco’s South Park for a week in 1996.
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Archinect : News : Jane Jacobs goes to the great city in the sky
Fairly detailed obituary/summary. (via City of Sound)
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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.
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Panoramic photograph of suburban sprawl near San Ramon, California | Matt Jalbert
Unreal-looking. Would be great to see this animated over a decade or two. (via Kottke again. He has such good links.)
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Access Magazine
“Official magazine of the University of California Transportation Center” available for download twice yearly.
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The Bookshelf - City Comforts - David Sucher
Ted on a book and author I hadn’t heard of, but it sounds good.
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Designing for Civil Society: Promoting regeneration? First listen to your critic
Jonathan Glancey on regeneration.
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Centre Point, 101 New Oxford Street, London, West End, London - photos, history and background
Be sure to follow the little link to read the history of the site’s planning permission.
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Cars to Vanish in $50M Tunnel Town
100 homes, $50 million, all cars underground in a planned development in Russia.
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Why we’re reaching our limits as a one-hour city - Opinion - www.smh.com.au
Throughout history cities have been an hour’s travel across. I’m not convinced
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Shooting and Data Gathering | Model Making | Mori Urban Institute for the Future
I want to make these.
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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power: Trees for a Green LA
They give free trees to residents because more trees means greater energy savings.