Tag: cities
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Architects and Second-Tier Cities
Why Architects and Second-Tier Cities Need Each Other CityLab, Jan. 23, 2015 A couple of weeks ago, the American Institute of Architects announced which buildings had won its annual honor awards, one of the highest prizes in the field. The real winners, of course, are not the buildings but the architects who designed them. This […]
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Germany’s Car-Sharing Paradise
How Bremen, Germany, Became a Car-Sharing Paradise CityLab, Dec. 11, 2014 Bremen, in Northwestern Germany, could not be described as car-dependent in the North American sense of the term. In this city of 550,000, most daily journeys happen on mass transit (14 percent of all trips), on foot (20 percent), or by bike (25 percent). […]
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D.C. Punk’s Salad Days
Celebrating D.C.’s Punk ‘Salad Days’ CityLab, Nov. 28, 2014 In 2012, Scott Crawford launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a project he’d already begun, a documentary about the heyday of punk music in Washington, D.C., during the 1980s. Crawford was an established music journalist and graphic designer (he edited the now-defunct Harp magazine from 2001 to […]
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The Machine Is a Garden
In 1898, an unassuming British stenographer hatched the idea of “garden cities” as an antidote to dirty, crowded London. Today, a revival of that idea is spreading from the U.K. to China to India — and some people think it just might help save the planet. Foreign Policy, September/October 2014 ON 71ST AVENUE, JUST SOUTH […]
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Leisure Fast and Slow
World of Leisure: North America — The East Dialogue 26 (Gensler), Fall 2014 Ask Gensler New York’s Beth Novitsky about leisure and she laughs. “Around here, it doesn’t exist.” Rob Gatzke agrees. “There’s that ‘New York minute’ thing going on—an expectation of speed.” Asked the same question, Colin O’Brien says that Atlanta “celebrates slow. You […]
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