Metropopular is an animated short film about what American cities would say to one another if they could talk.
Tag: New York
8-Bit Cities: Where Geek Meets Street
8-Bit Cities make cities feel foreign yet familiar by bringing together the lo-fi maps of 1980s role-playing games and today’s web maps.
The City Limits [Weekend Watch]
Photographer Dominic Boudreault captured picturesque cityscapes and rural retreats to illustrate the duality between city and nature.
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.
Best Cities for Walking
This slideshow from Grist takes a tour of the top ten cities in the world for walking. The cities included are from a new list from travel publisher Lonely Planet and include Prague, Boston and Melbourne. From Grist: A great city is a great walking city. So which is the greatest of them all? Travel book…
Book Review: Jane Jacobs and the Genius of Common Sense
In my quest to understand the life, work and impact of Jane Jacobs, I have read almost every book, by or about Jane. One book that I had put off reading was Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the Story of The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Glenna Lang and Marjory Wunsch….