cities

12
Jun
Letters from Paris: On cities as museums.

Letters from Paris: On cities as museums.

It’s springtime in Paris and I have something to confess (although the fact that I feel the need to
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12
Jun
Letters from Paris: Things Parisians Like.

Letters from Paris: Things Parisians Like.

The thing I love about Parisians is they just don’t give a damn. And that, contrary to popular belief,
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12
Jun
Letters from Paris: Flâneur as Voleur.

Letters from Paris: Flâneur as Voleur.

PARIS — Aggravated robberies are up more than 40 percent in the Paris public transport system, and the government places blame
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12
Jun
An apiary, a city, and beautiful cinematography.

An apiary, a city, and beautiful cinematography.

Made by Hand / No 3 The Beekeeper. Via Made by Hand on Vimeo. First I wanted chickens. Now I want
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12
Jun
My city, myself.

My city, myself.

From Mapping Home: Learning a new city, remembering the old. By Aleksandar Hemon I returned to places I had known
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12
Jun
On cities and multiple mental models.

On cities and multiple mental models.

Looking down Dame Street toward Trinity College. Dublin, Ireland. Photo by Callie Neylan, February 2012. What I love about cities
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12
Jun
On urban semiotics and self image.

On urban semiotics and self image.

In This Means This, This Means That: A User’s Guide To Semiotics, author Sean Hall outlines key semiotic concepts
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12
Jun
When you're in love with a broken city.

When you're in love with a broken city.

Yesterday, I read the saddest thing I’ve ever read in my life. In an interview with Bill Moyers, David
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12
Jun

Interaction design + urban planning.

The semester is humming nicely along. I have an incredible group of about nine grad students in my Visualizing Information
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12
Jun
A Second Sunday. A first month.

A Second Sunday. A first month.

I didn’t know of Jim Haynes until I read about him this week in Leo Hollis’s Cities Are
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