Tag: Paris
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Turnstyles
Have trouble memorizing your city’s transit system? Now you can put it on your arm. (keep reading…) -
When You Get the Chance to Build a New Subway Station, Take Full Advantage
When You Get the Chance to Build a New Subway Station, Take Full Advantage: Three architecture firms re-imagine the subway station in a temporary exhibition in Paris. (keep reading…) -
Connecting People to Jobs in Far-Flung Metropolitan Areas
Do large cities make it more difficult for people to find jobs because of long commute distances? (keep reading…) -
Stuy-Town: Worst Real Estate Deal Since 1626!
Willy Staley writes about how Tishman Speyer Properties just lost an exceptional amount of wampum in the worst Manhattan real estate deal since the Lenape sold the whole island for less than the cost of a 7-day Metrocard.
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Walking on Paper
There’s a study behind every urban planning improvement project. Yet how does one effectively analyze that complex entity we call a “city”? In the second installment of her new column, Jeanne Haffner will explore the technological and conceptual devices that planners and others use to do just this. Today: How drawing remains essential to design. (keep reading…) -
Required Reading
What to take to the beach? Other than Next American City, a round up of magazine articles from the New York Times Magazine, The Nation, and others. The hot topics are high speed rail, homelessness, gas taxes and of course, what Obama is going to do to improve U.S. cities. (keep reading…) -
The Big Apple’s Little Gambles
New York is experimenting with a bike share program and a peak-rate parking scheme — will either of these ideas get implemented for real? (keep reading…) -
Results of Seattle’s Test of Automatic Toilets Underwhelming
A test gone awry brings the end to a trial contract between the city of Seattle and a German manufacturer of high-tech automatic toilets. But is such an abrupt end to a pilot program designed to quell public urination and defecation necessary? Surely these silver self-cleaning cylindrical facilities were not the boon the city was expecting, but were they really the bane? The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports. (keep reading…) -
More Olympic news, Stories from D.C., Florida HUD goes Local, Golf Sprawl, MORE
Tibetan protesters continue their focus on China’s olympic march, UPenn students win student urban design competition, Florida HUD returns to local control, Hispanics contribute $60 billion to the telecommunications industry ... this and more in today’s headlines. (keep reading…) -
Closet Art, SkyWalk, Philly Cycling, Motoboys, more
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