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Ruth Cuadra

Urban Taggers.: N-Strike Elite: Speculation time! - 0 views

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    comments on inner city apartment living from the perspective of a "kidult" living in Australia
Ruth Cuadra

As More Move To Cities, A New Take On Urban Design : NPR - 0 views

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    By the year 2050, some 7 billion people will be living in cities. As many people who live on the planet today will be city dwellers just 38 years from now. Two years ago, for the first time in human history, over 50 percent of the population of the world now lives in cities, and that trend is accelerating. Every month, 1 million people in the world move to a city. If we don't get cities right, we're kind of - don't have a very bright future as humankind.
Ruth Cuadra

NYC asking developers to test tiny apartments - BostonHerald.com - 2 views

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    tiny units could be the answer to a growing urban population of singles and two-person households
Karen Wade

In urban L.A., developers are building trendy homes on tiny lots - latimes.com - 0 views

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    In L.A. at least, folks are beginning to have the option of owning a new, affordable (affordable by L.A. standards at least) single-family home in trendy neighborhoods, albeit on tiny lots.
Ruth Cuadra

Global Insurance Firms offer Resiliency Tools to Climate Risk Cities | Planetizen: The ... - 0 views

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    A report aims to find a common global method for evaluating and addressing climate risk in response to the increasing frequency of catastrophic storms to use by cities in their redevelopment processes.
Ruth Cuadra

A look at cities that are leading the way in urban sustainability - 0 views

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    Not all of these are the usual suspects to be on such a list: Bogota, Melbourne, Copenhagen, Mexico City, Munich, Rio de Janeiro, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, and Tokyo.
Ruth Cuadra

Pratt Institute to Offer Master's With a Focus on Public Space - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    Pratt Institute's Architecture School this fall plans to start a master's program in "Urban Placemaking and Management"...to be focused on creating successful public spaces based on community planning
Lisa Eriksen

http://cdn.guggenheim.org/BMW/100_Urban_Trends_1106_3MB.pdf - 0 views

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    We have identified and explored many of these trends through our CAMLF work.
Gina Hall

Zócalo Public Square :: Why On Earth Am I Looking At This? - 0 views

  • Most Museums Have Trouble Connecting To the Public. Maybe It's Time For Some New Ideas.
  • underprepared for their pending encounter with the visual arts
  • many audience members seem intuitively aware of what is missing: more access to the story explaining how and why a work has arrived at this place for their enjoyment.
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  • soldiering through the galleries and paying minimal attention to the exhibits prepared expressly for their viewing
  • reanimated by the opportunities to engage in eating, spending, and talking on the phone—activities compatible with a sidewalk stroll.
  • critical message about the socializing function of the city
  • There is scientific data, too, upon which to build an argument for ensuring that we do better by our museum guests.
  • participation in the arts, especially as audience, predicted civic engagement, tolerance, and altruism.”
  • “[T]he space of the art museum is an inherently public or civic space,” wrote Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, in a recent essay. “Art museums in this context need to be understood as quintessentially urban institutions that play a critical role in defining the intellectual and physical fabric of cities and towns.”
Ruth Cuadra

The Orlando Shooting and the Securitization of Urban Public Spaces - CityLab - 2 views

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    I felt obligated to put this here. Very insightful read. In the absence of meaningful gun reform, it isn't hard to imagine public spaces becoming more rigid, enclosed, and surveilled. That's a problem.
Paul Spitzzeri

Framework for the Future 2030 - Museums - 2 views

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    Newport News, Virginia's framework for 2030--museums are merely described, but in the context of city planning.
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