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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.

Tags: photography, image, history, wwii, primar_source, war, violence, cities on 2008-11-17 and saved by8 people -All Annotations (2) -About

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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.

Tags: cities, cool, del.icio.us_import, history, links on 2008-03-31 -All Annotations (0) -About

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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.

Tags: agriculture, cities, del.icio.us_import, food, science, via:psfk, weird on 2008-02-29 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Main Street Phoenixville

Website primarily about the summer music series in Phoenixville. Next summer I swear I'm going.

Tags: cities, del.icio.us_import, events, local, music, pennsylvania, phxvl on 2007-11-06 -All Annotations (0) -About

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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.

Tags: !toread, america, cities, del.icio.us_import, journalism, news, nyc, pluralism, religion, via:facebook on 2007-10-01 -All Annotations (0) -About

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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.

Tags: archaeology, cities, del.icio.us_import, history, middle_east on 2007-09-11 -All Annotations (0) -About

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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.

Tags: cities, climate_change, del.icio.us_import, environment, news, nyc, u.s.-news, weather on 2007-08-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

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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

Tags: activism, cities, del.icio.us_import, development, economics, local, pennsylvania on 2007-07-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Congress for the New Urbanism

This is the CNU's own site. They recently convened in Philadelphia, and I am curious about their work.

Tags: !toread, activism, cities, del.icio.us_import, environment, housing, organization on 2007-05-30 and saved by6 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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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

Tags: !toread, cities, del.icio.us_import, economics, future, sociology on 2007-05-16 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Georgia Center for Urban Agriculture

Looks useful and kind of cool, but haven't really examined the site yet.

Tags: check_this_out, cities, del.icio.us_import, gardening, organization, post:tumblr, via:lii on 2007-05-15 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Trailer for Radiant City, Canadian documentary on suburbia

Trailer for the documentary I clipped about (http://snipurl.com/1j34u).

Tags: architecture, cities, del.icio.us_import, documentary, environment, film, popular_culture, suburbs on 2007-05-02 -All Annotations (0) -About

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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.

Tags: architecture, cities, del.icio.us_import, documentary, environment, film, popular_culture, sprawl, suburbs on 2007-05-02 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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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.

Tags: architecture, cities, del.icio.us_import, documentary, environment, film, popular_culture, post:tumblr, sprawl, suburbs on 2007-05-02 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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