January 2012
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Jan 27th
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“Up until 10,000 years ago there were no permanent settlements and all human...”
– Mark Pagel, Cities as Gardens
Jan 27th
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“Dr. Jackson, who was then the head of the National Center for Environmental...”
– “America’s Health Threat: Poor Urban Design”  (via youcancallmecaity)
Jan 27th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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“In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking,...”
– Rebecca Solnit (via lifeonfoot)
Jan 21st
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Jan 19th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 10th
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December 2011
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Dec 22nd
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“The city multiplies man’s power to think, to remember, to educate, to...”
– Lewis Mumford
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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WatchWatch
jessemclean: Landscape architecture never interested me as much as regular architecture did, but this is a game changer. Now to figure out which I’d rather dive into. Wow, such a lovely definition of public space in urban areas: “Intimate immensity is what it’s like to be in a forest—where things are immediate and tactile and intimate—but at the same time you’re...
Dec 18th
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“When you clean up a city, you destroy it.”
– Charles Bukowski
Dec 18th
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Dec 12th
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“Imaginative interventions aren’t always technological or expert. They can be...”
–  A new exhibit at the Noguchi Museum called Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City is highlighting how works of art can be transformative. The installments in this exhibit offer suggestions for Long Island City, an area in Queens, New York City, undergoing haphazard and rapid development (and...
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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