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Category - Other Cities
Greater City ProvidenceWatch season 2 premiere of “Brick City”
“Brick City” is the Peabody Award winning Sundance Channel series which follows Newark, NJ Mayor, Cory Booker. The series combines a reality style tailing of the mayor at work with citizens of the city and...
Jef NickersonStreetfilms goes to Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Walk & Bike from Streetfilms on Vimeo.
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“You never know if they can slide into the street, get hit by a car.”
We could live in a city like this too. Check out the full story on Boston.com. This month’s blizzard has brought a flurry of tickets, 173 yesterday alone, compared with 20 issued in all of December 2009. And...
Bike Share coming to NYC
Image from flickr According to blog Commute By Bike, “the City That Never Sleeps has officially requested proposals from private companies with the expectation of implementing a twenty-four hour, 365 day-a-year...
Matthew CoolidgeNew designer bus shelters in Montréal
Rendering by Leblanc + Turcotte + Spooner Montréal has started testing 3 prototype new bus shelters on city streets The Montréal Gazette reports. They cost up to $16,000 [Canadian] each – about twice...
Video: Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans
Six Flags New Orleans was abandoned after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. It is slated to be demolished next year.
Via: Laughing Squid
The Shortcut, interactive lighting display in London
Shortcut is an interactive lighting installation in a pedestrian way in London by artist Jason Bruges: Shortcut is a responsive lighting installation for the Dover Yard in London; a well-used pedestrian route linking...
New York\’s Quality of Life Agenda
Yes, yes, I know. Providence is not New York, it is hard to compare. But all of these initiatives are things that can and should be scaled to Providence. Look at this Times Square statistic again, there was a ten-to-one...
Some observations from Alexandria, Virginia
Last weekend I was in Alexandria, Virginia. My hotel which was mega-cheap and right next to a Metro station was out in the exurbia hell next to the Beltway surrounded by surface parking, but not too far away was Old...
Living Bridges
Photo from Atlas Obscura In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren’t built – they’re grown. In the southern Khasi and Jaintia hills of northeastern India...
Watch and Learn? New Haven’s Renaissance, Reviewed
An absolute must read article for anyone who cares about rebuilding our cities can be found in this month’s Yale Alumni Magazine. The balanced piece reviews the birth, agonizing death, and then the recent rebirth...
Bret AncowitzEuropean Suburbs Grow Smart, US Snoozes…
Well, that’s essentially the theme of this NY Times article titled “Europe Imagines Suburbs Without a Car.” While trying to make the content “fair and balanced” in a Fox News-ish sort of...
April showers
People keep favoriting this photo in my Flickr photostream. I have no idea why, nothing is happening in the Fenway/Kenmore area today.
Florida’s Plan: Sprawlimulus
View Larger Map The St. Petersburg Times reports on Florida’s plan to stimulate the state’s economy. Basically they plan to deregulate the construction industry to make it cheaper and easier to build sprawl...
