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Lisa Eriksen

The Most Diverse Cities In The US - Business Insider - 1 views

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    Note how many on both lists are in California.
Ruth Cuadra

Pop_up Planning: New Methods for Transforming the Public Process - 0 views

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    I live just a few miles from where the Pop-UP MANGo happened. I can tell you that while the community-participation aspect of this kind of "planning" is terrrific, it undermines overall city planning in terms of space use, traffic mitigation, and access. What's the proper balance?
Ruth Cuadra

A look at floating cities - 0 views

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    The text of this blog is junk, but the pictures are food for thought.
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

The Problem With Defining 'Downtown' - The Atlantic Cities - 0 views

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    Census Bureau defines "downtown," for lack of a better universal definition, as everything within a 2-mile radius of the local city hall.
Ruth Cuadra

Guerrilla Wayfinding: User-Powered Signs Aid Exploration - 2 views

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    What are you missing out on in your own city by sticking to your established routes each day, or driving instead of walking?
Lisa Eriksen

Honda highlights Space Invaders in ad for new City model - mUmBRELLA - 1 views

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    Cute spot on personal space to sell cars - creative director claims "the car is technically our 'third' space." A different definition worth adding to our thoughts?
Ruth Cuadra

Hidden costs of sprawl will cripple cities - 0 views

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    "Why don't cities count the long-term costs of suburbia?" asks author of report on sprawl.
Lisa Eriksen

MoMA presents tactical urbanism strategies for expanding megacities - 0 views

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    Really fascinating exhibit by MoMA on the future of urbanism in global cities. 
Ruth Cuadra

BBC - Future - Technology - Can schools survive in the age of the web? - 0 views

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    "If kids in Ethiopia learn to read without school, what does that say about kids in New York City who do not learn even with school?"
Ruth Cuadra

Office Oasis: When The Workplace Doubles As A Space To Unwind (PHOTOS) - 1 views

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    Third space concept inversed to mean in-office refuges, an effect of what Bob Fox, publisher of the industry magazine Workspace Design, calls the Google philosophy to "give its employees a city."
Ruth Cuadra

Report describes the future of buildings in 2050 - 0 views

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    Arup's Foresight + Innovation team, foresees that structures will be fully integrated into the fabric of the city, responsive to changes in the external environment, and designed for continuous adaptability, according to real-time needs and demands of its users.
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

A letter from 2056: Utopian L.A. is where everyone wants to live - 0 views

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    "In 2056, L.A. is a utopian city with excellent mass transit. OK Angelenos and Californians, what you do you think about this view of 2056?
Ruth Cuadra

A letter from 2056: Dystopian L.A. gives you everything you love to hate, only more of ... - 0 views

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    In 2056, L.A. is a dystopian city with even worse traffic. OK, Angelenos and Californias, what do you think about this version of our future?
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