What I’ve been reading this week:
- City thinking – city doing – city living: Things to ponder while discussing cities (Future Thrills)
Frameworks for Citizen Responsiveness: Towards a Read/Write Urbanism Here’s one for the urban data geeks out there. Adam Greenfield (aka Speedbird) suggests looking at the city as software and treating urban environments as system resources, not a mute collection of disarticulated buildings, vehicles, sewers and sidewalks. (UrbanOmnibus)
- Transport Revolution: A look at the what just may be the biggest vehicular break through of the past few decades. (PriceTags)
- Desire for the Undesirable: Urban economist Rob Pitingolo explores why mixed-use neighborhoods are expensive. Turns out that gentrification and the lure of suburbia could be two sides of the same coin. (Extraordinary Observations)
- You Haul: Forgoing the moving truck for a bicycle. Crazy? These people don’t think so. (Sightline Daily)
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- Taming the City (socialhallucinations.com)
- Considering cities as “dense meshes of active, communicating public objects” (boingboing.net)
- Of Local History and Hepcats (cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com)
