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Sana Venjara | Next American City | Feb 1st, 2012 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: Philadelphia |
An ongoing art exhibit in Philadelphia calls attention to the peculiar local phenomenon of space saving. Does shoveling a street entitle you to personally reserve its parking spaces? And if so, why must your space saver look so bland? (
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Diana Lind | Next American City | Jan 12th, 2012 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: Philadelphia |
Zoe Strauss, Philadelphia’s foremost photographer, opens her retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Saturday. Diana Lind makes a case for why Strauss matters not only to the art scene, but to the urbanism field. (
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Mary Jones | Jul 16th, 2011 | Topic: Culture, Built Environment | Region: West Coast | Cities: Phoenix |
Formerly a collection of old buildings and parking lots, Civic Space Park now invites the Phoenix community to experience world class design in the course of everyday life
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Julia Ramey Serazio | Sep 18th, 2009 | Topic: Culture, Economy | Region: Central, East Coast, West Coast | Cities: Houston |
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Nick Lalla | Sep 23rd, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Chicago, Philadelphia |
Brett Morgan’s film
Chicago 10 will be screened in Philadelphia tonight, followed by a public discussion of political activism in the city since 1968. (
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Diana Lind | Next American City | Aug 25th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Houston |
What does it look like when you connect more than 3,000 American cities with one line? Nothing like the political maps you see on
nytimes.com — but probably something like
Identically Named Places Connected (USA) . (
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Next American City | Aug 18th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York |
Artist Adrian Kondratowicz gives the standard trash bag a makeover. The bags raise environmental awareness but also cost a pretty penny. Fashionable or for real? (
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Next American City | Jul 30th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
The Mexico that Americans overlook is ever so evident in Mexican photography. With the utmost artistic quality Mexican photographers have documented their country’s social, cultural and political issues.
Mexican Photographers Today: Facing a World of Transition, held at the Tucson Museum of Art, examines many aspects of Mexican life seen through the lens of 27 photographers who have lived it, giving the American viewer a chance to know Mexico as something other than a tourist destination. (
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Jeffrey Hill | Apr 4th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
The newswire is flooded with memorials today—odes to a man who gave his life to racial harmony. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered on this day 40 years ago. As journalists, writers and broadcasters compare his legacy to the progress of race relations in America, there are still many barriers, both physical and subconscious, that separate cultural communities in cities. (
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Jeffrey Hill | Apr 2nd, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
A weekly look at featured urban art installations, open space projects, galleries and more. This week we visit Fort Worth’s new designer garage, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s “Phantom Sightings” exhibit, and preview
Village Voice’s interview with artist Richard Dupont. (
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An ongoing art exhibit in Philadelphia calls attention to the peculiar local phenomenon of space saving. Does shoveling a street entitle you to personally reserve its parking spaces? And if so, why must your space saver look so bland? (keep reading…)
Zoe Strauss, Philadelphia’s foremost photographer, opens her retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Saturday. Diana Lind makes a case for why Strauss matters not only to the art scene, but to the urbanism field. (keep reading…)
Formerly a collection of old buildings and parking lots, Civic Space Park now invites the Phoenix community to experience world class design in the course of everyday life (keep reading…)
The newswire is flooded with memorials today—odes to a man who gave his life to racial harmony. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered on this day 40 years ago. As journalists, writers and broadcasters compare his legacy to the progress of race relations in America, there are still many barriers, both physical and subconscious, that separate cultural communities in cities. (keep reading…)
