What Your Street Grid Reveals About Your City – Sarah Goodyear – The Atlantic Cities This “street area calculator” could be really useful in determining context-specific redevelopment… QUOTE Price has created a “street area calculator,” that allows you to plug in a street width and block size. Using this tool, you can come up with […]
The Magic of Fabric: Future Beauty | North Shore Art Throb My review of the Peabody Essex Museum’s show, Future Beauty. QUOTE Currently on view at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum is an exhibition that might just discombobulate you: Future Beauty; Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion. The show consists of almost one hundred garments, gorgeously displayed on a […]
Your Long Commute Is Sapping Your Will to Care About Politics – Emily Badger – The Atlantic Cities No doubt there are some flaws in this study, but the conclusions are intriguing. Is it the commute? Is it the isolation that commuting often entails (sitting singly in one’s car, or avoiding eye-contact on public transit)? […]
Project MUSE – Reconstructing the Subject: Modernist Painting in Western Germany, 1945-1950 (review) Reread this great review of my 1995 book the other day; had to bookmark it, even if I am tooting my own horn here! QUOTE Inside the deliberately circumscribed limitations of her topic, Yule Heibel makes a profoundly sophisticated contribution to scholarship […]
Mobile Computing Puts the Location Back in Retail | MIT Technology Review The whole article is super interesting, but this bit especially: QUOTE Yet the offline environment is actually more important when consumers connect through a mobile device. With colleagues including Sang Pil Han of the City University of Hong Kong, we studied 260 users […]
10 Most Bada** Comic Book Heroines (IMAGES) | Mike Madrid Love the illustration for Betty Bates, Lady-at-Law (ha!). As she slugs a perp (knocking his gun out of his hand in the process), she tells him,”I’ll teach you to lie to a reputable attorney!” Needless to add, not one of her hairs is out of […]
The Transportation Planning Rule Every City Should Reform – Eric Jaffe – The Atlantic Cities More on the transportation bias (it’s pro-car and pro-vehicle speed): QUOTE The weight of this hidden hand doesn’t fall on San Francisco alone. “Intersection LOS [level of service] is one of the most widely-used traffic analysis tools in the U.S. […]
RIP EveryBlock | Holovaty.com Sadly, EveryBlock was shut down. Its founder, Adrian Holovaty, comments. QUOTE More than six years ago, I wrote a blog post that got some attention about how newspaper (and, really, journalism) sites needed to change. EveryBlock was an attempt at that kind of change — in my eyes, a successful attempt. […]
A 70-Year-Old Documentary About Cities Shows We Haven’t Come Very Far – Arts & Lifestyle – The Atlantic Cities I don’t know… I think Goodyear’s assessment of this film is too generous. It gave me the creeps: both ‘the city’ (which was a polluted, congested hell-hole) and ‘the suburb’ or planned ‘idyllic town,’ which was […]