Category: transportation
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Do You Rule the Sewer?
I’ve been remiss in posting about the interesting WPA 2.0 competition and it’s alluring tagline: “whoever rules the sewers rules the city” as I was debating about entering because it is just amazingly compelling in idea. So alas, due to summer and time constraints (I know, lame, but I’ll explain later) I’m passing on the…
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A Short History of America
Perhaps an homage to a weekend of bbq’s and fireworks – this panel progression from the fantastic R.Crumb highlights the long (or really, actually quite short) road from nature to excess that we like to call development in America… anyone care to refute this vision? The interesting part, to see where this leads in future…
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Take to the Streets
I just passed a milestone of sorts… topping out at 500 posts (not to mention a few on the new Veg.itecture blog…). Seems like just yesterday I was starting this humble outlet for collecting thoughts – fighting with time to blog amidst time to work and occupying all of grey area in between. Often times,…
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Detroit: Urbanist Opportunity
An interesting post via the Sustainable Cities Collective from Kaid Benfield asks the provocative question “Is Detroit (the city) a lost cause environmentally? Altogether?” and again makes me wonder why it is that Detroit seems to always get framed in thoughts of negativity, versus thinking of it as a potential opportunity to redefine the way…
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Amphibious Architecture
Somewhat related to the concept of global climate change that will potentially innudate significant portions of urban areas (or maybe just a way to deal with growing land prices) the idea of inhabiting floating barges or houseboats is both new and old. I first heard the term amphibious architecture in reference to Dutch developments that…
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North Dakota – Mobile Chaplet
It is not too often that North Dakota architecture gets the nod from Some recent coverage from Bustler featured one of the 2009 AIA Small Projects Awards for the ‘Mobile Chaplet’ by Moorhead & Moorhead. :: image via Bustler“Mobile Chaplet is one of six portable spaces for reflection commissioned to travel to rural communities around…
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Pringle Creek + the Gravel Verge
Building on some recent posts on the SEA streets in Seattle, and Crown Street in Vancouver, BC, a few images of Pringle Creek – the uber sustainable community in Salem, Oregon. A significant feature is the use of the gravel verges – popularized by Patrick Condon these curbless sections allow infiltration on the edges of…
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Urban Typologies – Freeway Field Guide
This was one of those posts you immediately fall in love with as someone with a penchant for infrastructure and urbanism. We love naming typologies and objets d’urbanity, so when poignantly topical blog The Infrastructurist offered this two-part series on ‘A Field Guide to Freeway Interchanges’ I decided to devour it, then share some of…
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Speaking Dequindre
Detroit is still on my mind often as I see the duality of ongoing issues and inspirational stories of rebirth. It was great to see news of the recent opening of the Dequindre Cut, a section of abandoned rail line connecting the waterfront to areas of the Central City. I remember the Dequindre fondly, as…
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London Bridge, Updated
The idea of habitable or living bridges keeps popping up in proposals, and the idea has a lot of merit in our desire to provide density, connectivity and ultimately, increased livability of urban areas. Another recent proposal uses the old/new idea in London to build a bridge including retail and residential uses and is being…