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Tag: New York City
Book Review: Streetfight — Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Streetfight offers an empowering road map for rethinking, reinvigorating, and redesigning city streets to work better for everybody that use them.
Metroplasm: Ghostbusters Meets Transit Maps
This fun Massimo Vignelli inspired Metroplasm ‘subway’ map was designed for the 30th Anniversary Ghostbusters Commemorative art project.
How Bicycles Bring Business Infographic
An interesting infographic illustrating the myriad of ways that bicycles bring business to local and state/provincial economies.
The Lost Tribes of New York City [Weekend Watch]
Urban Anthropologists, Andy and Carolyn London interview some of New York City’s more overlooked citizens.
Colours of a City Evening [Weekend Watch]
Kaid Benfield captures the colours of a New York City evening in this video slideshow.
The Tragedy of Urban Renewal [Weekend Watch]
Filmmaker Jim Epstein read The Power Broker and set out to document one of the communities destroyed by Moses’ urban renewal of the 1950s.
Jane Jacobs and the Craft of Fiction
Jane Jacobs’ Death and Life of Great American Cities captures not just the rich density of urban life, but the craft of fiction.
Seth Godin on What Makes a City Great
What Seth Godin believes makes a city attractive to tourists also makes it interesting to urbanists and urbanites.
Rorschach Cities
Rorschmap is a Google Maps mashup by James Bridle that creates Rorschach inspired kaleidoscopic views of cities and other locations from around the world.