AWESOME!
Delivering a dinosaur to the Boston Museum of Science - Arthur Pollock - 1984
Reblogged from wnycradiolab, 4,410 notes, May 6, 2013
Andrea is an urban planner from New York who likes maps, large-scale infrastructure, and busy streets.
She has looked at urban projects, networks, and places in the US, Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.
Her work has been published in Cities, Latin American Perspectives, and Progressive Planning, along with some other places.
Follow her @urbandrea.
She has looked at urban projects, networks, and places in the US, Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.
Her work has been published in Cities, Latin American Perspectives, and Progressive Planning, along with some other places.
Follow her @urbandrea.
Garbage crisis in 1987. What are we doing now to deal with New York’s waste?
Also, ready to be friends with Lowell & Tommy, along with Sal the mafia captain; such visionaries.
“Everyone had a problem getting rid of their garbage.”
Welcome to New York.
Via wnyc.
Ebbets Field. Never forget. #irepbrooklynnow
wnyc:
Today’s the 100th anniversary of the opening of Ebbets Field. Brian Lehrer just posted a collection of vintage photos from the Brooklyn Public Library collection - share your stories on fb.
Pretty dope. Santo Domingo has a subway?
An Interconnected Map Showing All the Subways in North America
Awesome, as usual.
This will surely be the most exciting thing at the APA Conference by like x2000000!
Untapped Cities to Present on The Digital City at APA Chicago Conference http://bit.ly/ZilRPi
Reblogged from untappedcities, 2 notes, April 8, 2013
This is so rad!! Taking informational street signs to a new level.
JAY SHELL’S “THE RAP QUOTES” via Juxtapoz
Multidisciplinary artist, Jay Shells, has recently been creating legitimate looking signs containing rap quotes that reference specific locations in New York. After compiling over 30 signs, Shells set out installing these signs in the locations mentioned in the quotes. The artist has quoted many well-known rappers such as Jay Z, Mos Def, Kanye West, Gza, Nas, Jeru the Damaja, DJ Premier, and many more. Check out others via The Rap Quotes.
Reblogged from pitchfork, 2,082 notes, March 26, 2013
Well, this is shaping up to be a significant day in New York City history…
Happy 100th Birthday, Grand Central!
You are beautiful and elegant and functional and grand at one century old!
2 notes, February 1, 2013
In Memoriam: Ed Koch
Today we remember former New York City Mayor Ed Koch.
In one of the most comprehensive obituaries I have ever read, The New York Times wrote:
His image on television, his high-pitched voice on the radio, his round shoulders and gangly arms and baggy pants, and especially his streetwise gusts of candor — saying what people said over the dinner table in Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn — gave New Yorkers the illusion that he was a rumpled, familiar acquaintance.
For planners, he has a special place in our nerdy hearts, for championing his “Housing New York” plan, which restored over 200,000 units, many in formerly abandoned buildings in distressed neighborhoods. Koch’s plan significantly reduced New York’s homeless population and played a crucial role in neighborhood revitalization across the City.
As the Times so sweetly puts it:
Mr. Koch is survived by New York itself, as an old friend put it a few years ago.
2 notes, February 1, 2013
2013: WELCOME!
About a month late, but never a dollar short, we kick off the new year (soon to be Year of the Snake) on everyone’s favorite urban happenings blog with an exciting announcement!
I published an article! YAY! Read it! I promise it is not that boring!
4 notes, January 31, 2013
