From Greater Kennedy Plaza: Hello friends! Please join us as we kick off another season of exciting events here in Greater Kennedy Plaza! We’ve got a great line-up of daily programming — and to celebrate...
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Worth A Watch: James Howard Kunstler
For any that are not familiar with TED, it is a gathering of relevant minds with the purpose of sharing their thoughts on whatever it is that they specialize in. The speakers have ranged from Michelle Obama to John...
David Rocha
What do you want from your bus stop?
EyeStop rendering from MIT Students at MITs SENSEable City Lab have created the EyeStop, a prototype high tech bus stop for the city of Florence, Italy. The press release describes the EyeStop as: EyeStop, developed by...
Jef Nickerson
Reader Submission: Stop means Stop?
A Greater City Providence reader submitted this photo and statement on the photo: This is Brown Street at Angell Street. I am so old I remember when “Cross Traffic Does Not Stop” was exactly what you could...
AP Picks Up Capitol Cove Story
As found on a Pennsylvania TV station’s website, it looks like the Associated Press has picked up on the condos-to-dorm tale of Capitol Cove. They have in the article some similar examples from around the country...
Bret Ancowitz
FAA Preliminarily Approves T.F. Green Runway
Photo (cc) thisisbossi from flickr.com As Ted Nesi reports in the PBN, the FAA has given its preliminary blessing to a TF Green runway expansion plan that involves lengthening its main runway southward. The final...
Our Transportation Secretary wants you out of your car!
Empty parking lot photo by sameold2008 from Flickr Ray LaHood, Transportation Secretary for the new Obama administration, has recently been quoted as wanting to “coerce people out of their cars.” Good news...
The Box Office
Rendering from The Box Office When Puma City came to Boston I meant to post about it and say, “gee, wouldn’t it be cool to have something like that here?” But I never did and I guess I didn’t...
Art Scene Lately: Scenes within scenes
Soundsession photo by brownbeatle from Flickr In a robust urban arts scene there ends up being pockets of scenes within scenes. Each fertile core is a community unto itself. This always causes me think about the notion...
Margie Butler
“Driving RIPTA into the future”
So while we hear endlessly about RIPTA’s budget crisis, the agency is plugging along on future planning. The above video, which is slightly treacly I know, outlines some of the planning that RIPTA is doing. RIPTA...
Retail Update: Snookers & More…
Snookers: I’m not sure how “old news” this is, but Snookers sports bar is listed to be “coming soon” at about 44 Ashburton Street on the other side of the 95 overpass from Kelly’s Car...
Tunnel of LED
“Multiverse” by Leo Villareal, video by Jef Nickerson When we were in Washington earlier this month, Matt dragged us to the National Gallery of Art to see this LED Tunnel between the old and new buildings...
Brown Medical School to Relocate to Jewelry District
View Larger Map Brown University seems to have finally chosen the future location of its Medical School. Currently shoehorned into its BioMed Building, the University initially decided that despite the 100 million...
Ocean State Blogging
Photo © Frank Mullin for PBN Today in the Providence Business News, Ted Nesi reports about… us. Ted interviewed me and people from Providence Daily Dose, RIFuture, and Anchor Rising for his story about Rhode...
Video: Kai Tak Airport
This is a crazy cool video that at once fascinates and terrifies me. It is Hong Kong’s old Kai Tak Airport which sat right in the heart of Kowloon. Kai Tak closed in 1998 when Hong Kong’s new airport opened...
Pixel City
This is a demonstration of a program I wrote to generate and fly through a dynamically generated city. You can read the step-by-step of how it was made at my website. The program was built on vanilla OpenGL, Windows...
