Adam Harrison Levy, "Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs," from Design Observer (Nov. 10, 2008)
The story of a mysterious cache of photographs taken of Hiroshima after the detonation of the atomic bomb, which resurfaced in Massachusetts decades later. Some remarkable images.
more fromwww.designobserver.com
Transition Towns Wiki -- on sustainable, post-carbon communities
Found via Theolog (the Christain Century weblog).
more fromtransitiontowns.org
Scott London, "Crossing Borders: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez," The Sun Magazine 260 (August 1997)
Rodriguez on assimilation, race, "divesity," migration, and Los Angeles.
more fromwww.thesunmagazine.org
What Is the Future of Suburbia? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
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Bio Mapping: Charting Emotional Hotspots in the Cityscape | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration
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Urban spelunking: abandoned roofs and tunnels (Salon, 2001)
Salon's profile of some prominent members of what it calls the "urban infiltration movement" -- a Web-centric community of people whose hobby is exploring and documenting abandoned nooks and crannies of their cities. Includes links.
more fromarchive.salon.com
Pasona O2, Tokyo's underground farm
In a vault underneath a major Tokyo office building, there is a 1000-sq.m. organic rice and vegetable farm, utilizing LED lighting, computer-controlled temperatures, and hydroponics. Intended to give jobless young people some agricultural experience.
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Main Street Phoenixville
Website primarily about the summer music series in Phoenixville. Next summer I swear I'm going.
more fromwww.mainstreetphoenixville.org
David Gonzalez, "For a Master Class on Global Worship, It’s Destination Queens" (NYT, July 2, 2007)
An international seminar on interreligious coexistence and pluralism, based in New York City. I haven't actually read this yet. Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5SFsEzH5t.
more fromwww.nytimes.com
Annalee Newitz, "Anti-authoritarian Cities" (AlterNet, 9/5/2007)
Reflections on the significance of new discoveries about the development of the ancient Syrian town Brak, which appears to have grown together out of various disparate groups rather than emerging from a hierarchical foundation.
more fromwww.alternet.org
Philadelphia lolcat
Haha. Sort of funny ... sort of not.
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Brooklyn endures first-ever tornado (yes, really)
Via EcoTumble.com (http://snipr.com/1pe2q). One fatality reported in Staten Island; only minor injuries in Brooklyn.
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Anti-sprawl petition -- Upper Providence Twp., PA
I am bookmarking this because I'm interested in examples of the Web affecting local community organization and activism. In the last few months, huge numbers of signs have sprouted up all over this area saying: "LOVE TRAFFIC? SAVEUPPERPROV.COM". It seems
more fromsaveupperprov.com
Congress for the New Urbanism
This is the CNU's own site. They recently convened in Philadelphia, and I am curious about their work.
more fromwww.cnu.org
PNAS: Innovation, growth, and the global future of urban life
A new article suggests that many sociological indicators for urban life conform to a relatively simple mathematical model, and that the model predicts that "innovation cycles" will have to increase consistently in order to avoid urban "stagnation" or soci
more fromwww.pnas.org
Georgia Center for Urban Agriculture
Looks useful and kind of cool, but haven't really examined the site yet.
more fromapps.caes.uga.edu
Trailer for Radiant City, Canadian documentary on suburbia
Trailer for the documentary I clipped about (http://snipurl.com/1j34u).
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"Radiant City": a documentary on suburban sprawl [2]
A documentary in which a two-man team consisting of a journalist and "Canada's king of surreal comedy", heavily influenced by James Howard Kunstler, heads off to document life in the mass-produced strip-mall world of 21st-century suburbia.
more fromwww.radiantcitymovie.com
Radiant City :: A Documentary About Urban Sprawl
A
documentary in which a two-man team consisting of a journalist and
"Canada's king of surreal comedy", heavily influenced by James Howard
Kunstler, heads off to document life in the mass-produced strip-mall
world of 21st-century suburbia.
more fromwww.radiantcitymovie.com
Notation: * = Private bookmark and comment|… = Clipping [?] | … = Public highlight [?]




