Archive for August, 2005

Unknown cities

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

The City: Perverted for Freeby Dirk Lefever
“The traveler has set off once again, leaving the country for strange and unknown cities. Unlike the average tourist, he has bought a city map before starting on the journey. As this traveler makes his way, we no longer wonder about him. It is the tourist, the unprepared traveler, […]

Eruvin

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

eRuv: A Street History in Semacode by Elliott Malkin
“In 1907, Rabbi Yehoshua Siegel, a renowned Talmudic authority who had immigrated to the Lower East Side from Poland, published Eruv V’Hotza’ah, in which he wrote: ‘With regard to the city of New York, where we are presently living, the issue has come before the trembling […]

MADE in Edmonton

Sunday, August 7th, 2005

My pics of Sophie at Media Art Design Exposed in the Winter.
MADE is running a busy schedule this summer from films to street furniture design and installations. Particularly impressive have been thier ongoing Kid’s Draw events in which children are exposed to the idea of built environments as man made and invited to draw their […]

Alternative Urban Mobilities

Sunday, August 7th, 2005

One of the most intriuing things I did in Vancouver was try out a motorized skateboard designed by BMW (also known as the BMW Streetcarver) at E-Bike in Vancouver. This is just one of a variety of experimental personal mobilities (PM) which we need to think about as part of urban futures - from sooped-up […]

Summer vacation

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

While we enjoy some time off, we invite you to browse our archives and check out some of our old and new favourites:
placement | pruned | rodcorp | spacing | things magazine | wood s lot

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