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February 7 to 13, 2005
More on the copyrighting of public space. Note that the city of Chicago is enforcing this: http://new
urban
ist.blogspot.com/2005/01/copyrighting-of-public-space.htm...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Ever been taken by one of these? Here's the 25 hottest
urban
legends, with "tsunami photos" at number one...
January 17 to 23, 2005
A prototype car by Ford is described as a "rolling
urban
command center", with bullet-resistant windows, protective shutters, and a mini-home theater...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Another crack in the sub
urban
facade: In the Bay Area, 50% of residents want new homes built closer to job centers...
December 13 to 19, 2004
A dialect map of American English. I had a suspicion that "San Francisco
urban
" was a dialect, but didn't know it was official...
August 22 to 29, 2004
Enterprise housing - creating affordable, sustainable housing in
urban
, mixed-use environments...
May 24 to 30, 2004
A legend in
urban
design, octogenarian Jane Jacobs has written a new book analyzing North American culture called "Dark Ages Ahead"...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Another journalist tries an all- McDonald's diet, with surprising results: http://www.dailyherald.com/sub
urban
living/mcdiet...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The rise of sub
urban
loft architecture...
April 12 to 18, 2004
urban
planners can reduce costs by planting more trees and using lighter-colored pavement... heard of Curtiba, the city widely held as "a paragaon of
urban
planning excellence"...
March 31, 2004
Let's face it folks - taken as a whole, Hawaii architecture sucks. And the
urban
planning leaves a lot to be desired...
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've seen. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why build faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
The last two years have seen a rise in co-housing and prefabricated architecture projects in Europe and the U.S.. Thanks to the support of cutting-edge shelter magazines such as Dwel...
These projects are perfect for Hawaii - they are low-cost, replaceable, expandible/evolveable, tough, and designed beautifully with a sense of environment. A number of them incorporat...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
A brawl involving 750 students that resulted in two arrests and eleven suspensions broke out during an anger management assembly at a sub
urban
high school...
Although expensive, mechanized parking is perfect for high-density areas low on space. Someone in Honolulu
urban
planning should at least take a look at the data...
March 8 to 14, 2004
There's an interesting architectural trend towards "green roofs" - creating mini-ecologies in unused
urban
areas, mainly, roofs...
February 9 to 15, 2004
"Land sale shutters city’s vision of
urban
renewal...
November 3 to 9, 2003
You can read about one of their books, "Superbia!", a manual on transforming sub
urban
wastelands into more community-oriented, sustainable villages... "I was amazed when my neighbor waved to me"...
September 2, 2003
"
urban
Sprawl Makes Americans Fat, Study Finds...