-
1.
Seeing like a Skateboarder (spacingmontreal.ca)After talking to David Bouthillier for half an hour I start to see the urban landscape in a whole new light.
-
2.
The Evergreen Tract: Shrinking the City II (heckeranddecker.wordpress.com)For almost three years now I have been writing here about the future of cities. It has been a fascinating, sad, grim, tantalizing journey. Much about contemporary urbanism is horrible, wasteful, destructive, ridiculous, unfair, and useless as a foundation for the future.
-
3.
Prostitution problem prompts homeowner to put house on market (www.northernlife.ca)A police cruiser is parked near Trina Hurd's Nelson Street residence, and police have stepped up foot patrols in the area. But she has decided to sell her home after years of dealing with area prostitutes leaving behind hygeine products, used condoms, and drug paraphernalia.
-
4.
New Urbanism for the Apocalypse | Fast Company (www.fastcompany.com)Has the New Urbanism outlived its original purpose? The movement's charismatic founder, Andrés Duany, seems to think so.
-
5.Elgin Street resident moving because of prostitution - Trina Hurd (www.northernlife.ca)
A brief history of time, as it relates to the Elgin strip over the past three and a half years, has been told and retold by residents. We felt (at one time) that contacting the police, mayor and the Ward 10 councillor would bring us some relief, and even, perhaps, allow us enjoyment of our properties and protection from prostitution, drugs and crime.
-
6.
Art Times Square (timessquarenyc.org)he Times Square Alliance is now working to nurture the creativity, energy and edge that are the essence of Times Square. For that reason, we are working with a variety of arts-based curatorial groups to bring public art projects to Times Square.
-
7.
Is your city a Creative City? (www.creativecity.ca)The Creative City Network of Canada (CCNC) is an organization of municipal staff working in communities across Canada on arts, cultural and heritage policy, planning, development and support.
-
8.
Firlapalooza » Blog Archive » Sudbury Graffiti (firlapalooza.com)Over the past couple of years, I have noticed the increasing presence of graffiti on both public and private surfaces here in the City.
-
9.Music may echo through Rideau underpass (www.cbc.ca)
A downtown pedestrian underpass that was partially fenced off due to safety concerns could soon be filled with art and music.The Rideau Street Business Improvement Area would manage a program of activities such as performance and visual art and live music in the Rideau Street-Colonel By Drive underpass under a one-year pilot project recommended by the city's community and protective services committee Thursday.
-
10.Killed for being 'too loud' - (ca.news.yahoo.com)
police said Rideout was attacked by a man who complained he was being too loud.
The victim was "making a lot of noise" in the area, causing a man to come out from his home with a blunt object at about 2 a.m. on Saturday, police said Monday. -
11.
Talking to Walls: A Conversation About the Public Realm | Broken City Lab (www.brokencitylab.org)Thursday night Cristina and I were up in Toronto at Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, participating in the Christopher Hume curated exhibition, Public Realm.
-
12.
REBAR | Projects | Walklet | art design activism in San Francisco (www.rebargroup.org)Fabrication and installation of the Walklet protoype includes a program of seating, planters, tables, bike racks and level sidewalk extensions.
Inspired by Rebar’s PARK(ing) Day and other efforts to convert parking spaces into people places, cities around the United States are transforming excess roadway into public plazas, pocket parks and experimental sites for new forms of urban infrastructure. -
13.
streetswiki - Woonerf (streetswiki.wikispaces.com)The term can be translated as "residential yard," reflecting its popularity in the Netherlands where private space is limited. In a woonerf, people on bikes and on foot have access to the whole street, not just sidewalks.
-
14.
Streetsblog San Francisco » Eyes on the Street: DIY Street Furniture Enlivens Potrero Hill Street (sf.streetsblog.org)Potrero hill merchant Joel Bleskacek came up with a clever solution in 2003 to provide more seating for customers outside of his Ruby Wine Shop and former Scoops ice cream parlor on 18th Street. He built simple wooden benches edging the tree trunks in front of his businesses, allowing his customers to linger and enjoy the public realm.
-
15.
Cities rack up public artwork with bike racks - USATODAY.com (www.usatoday.com)Cyclists can chain their bikes to a dollar sign on New York City's Wall Street, a pair of giant toothbrushes in Portland, Ore., and sea creatures in Louisville and Mount Clemens, Mich.Bicycle racks that combine the utility of security with the aesthetics of art are popping up across the USA
-
16.
Discovering Urbanism: Urban places and authentic marketing (discoveringurbanism.blogspot.com)For example, take the standard retail or food service operation. If you've set up shop in sprawl, you have a matter of seconds to make your potential customer want to stop and come in. This is simply because he is traveling 45 miles an hour and experiencing the outdoors through a windshield.
-
17.
Must View:unurth | street art (www.unurth.com)worldwide urban street art photos
-
18.
Improv Everywhere Creates Separate Sidewalk Lanes For Tourists & New Yorkers In NYC (laughingsquid.com)For latest Improv Everywhere mission, “The Tourist Lane”, a chalk line was added to a 5th Avenue sidewalk in New York City encouraging the notoriously slow tourists to walk on one side and the fast walking local New Yorkers to walk on the other side.
-
19.
The Heart of Biddeford (www.heartofbiddeford.org)The Heart of Biddeford in partnership with the City of Biddeford, the business community, property owners, and residents, fosters economic development and improves the downtown and quality of life within its boundaries by supporting existing businesses, attracting new businesses, promoting the downtown through events and working to beautify the urban core.
-
20.
Repost: The Pedestrianization Acceleration of Cincinnati (urban-out.com)If anyone has had the experience of traveling throughout Europe, you may have noticed a predominant feature in their center cities not found in typical American cities: pedestrian only thoroughfares.
-
21.
30 Examples of Graffiti & Street Art- South America (koikoikoi.com)KoiKoiKoi is a magazine about visual arts. Illustration and graphic design, motion graphics, animation, advertising, web design, photography, but also trends, interviews and tutorials.
-
22.
Vancouver Public Space Network (vancouverpublicspace.ca)The VPSN is a grassroots collective that engages in advocacy, outreach and education on public space issues in and around Vancouver, British Columbia.
-
23.
Times Square: Designing Temporary Surface Treatments (www.nyc.gov)A winning design for has been selected that will refresh and revive the streetscape designs currently at the Times Square pedestrian plazas
-
24.
A walk through downtown's history (www.thesudburystar.com)About 25 Greater Sudburians got a glimpse into the downtown core's past -- albeit the southern half -- Saturday morning."Last year, it was more of a buildings walk: the north side of the downtown," said tour leader Kris Longston, a senior planner with the City of Greater Sudbury, in an interview at the end of Saturday's free walk. "This time, we went to the south side, more the railway side."
-
25.
Must View: Under Montreal (www.undermontreal.com)I grew up in Toronto and first began exploring the region’s wealth of storm drains in 2005. With the addition of the hydroelectric tunnel systems of Niagara Falls, it wasn’t long before I found myself stricken with the underground bug.
Powered by