WALK.

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Ogilvy France (via Useful Billboards? Advertisements Extend Into Urban Space | WebUrbanist)

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Building down not up in Mexico City where developments are limited to ten stories. (via Earthscraper: Inverted Pyramid Spans 1000 Vertical Feet | WebUrbanist)

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If you like WalkScore, you're going to find Walkonomics useful. It takes how walkable your neighborhood is to the next level by including helpful statistics such as safety, cleanliness, sidewalk width, and some subjective criteria such as whether it is relaxing or fun.

(via A New Site Calculates Your Neighborhood's Walkability | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation)

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Untitled (HND 04-05-11), 2011  

Christoph Engel

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Haneda airport, Tokyo

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Boston BikeShare Data Animation (Hubway) (by Chris Whong)

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Can we say it? 2005 was peak car in America.

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Basement Shops (via Shops Pop Up Around Basement Windows in Urban Sofia | WebUrbanist)

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You know in 1993 we weren’t the bicycling capital of America. Seventeen years later, for the equivalent cost of a single mile of freeway, we have a bike infrastructure.

Sam Adams, Mayor of Portland, Oregon; where ~8% of commuters cycle to work. (via tasfromtas)

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Hurricane Sandy devastation visualized on Foursquare (via New Foursquare graphic tells the story of Sandy's devastation of Lower Manhattan)

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Smart Street Lights - Intellistreets (via Illuminating Inventions: 10 Twists to Simple Street Lights | WebUrbanist)

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Software Calculates City-Specific Carbon Footprint

“One way to measure greenhouse gases is simply to capture them at the source: You put an instrument on a smokestack, for example. Cities, however, are full of cars, buses, factories and homes that all use fuel or electricity. No one really knows how much carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, comes from each.

Ecologist Kevin Gurney says he can find out.”

Study maps greenhouse gas emissions to building, street level for U.S. cities Project to help overcome barriers to an international climate change treaty

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Urban Network Analysis (por City Form Lab)

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This video introduces Urban Network Analysis concepts that are implemented in the City Form Lab’s Urban Network Analysis Toolbox for ArcGIS. It demonstrates how new data and analysis approaches not only transform the way we think about cities in comparison to each other, but also improve our understanding of urban environments at the fine urban design scale.

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Oh Joy! (by kut)

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Vancouver: Fireworks Draw a Crowd (by Dave Delnea Images)

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Boston looks to transform parking spots into small parks

The program turns spaces into “parklets” - petite, three-season patios, with benches and planters atop platforms built flush with the sidewalk.

(ERIC RISBERG/ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Historical Diagram: Hudson River Tubes Cutaway, 1909

While not strictly speaking a transit map, this awesome cutaway diagram of the Hudson River Tubes featured in our last post is just too cool not to share with you. Contemporaneous with that map, this cutaway shows the junction to the northern (or Uptown) cross-Hudson tubes which leave the image to the right. Of particular interest is how the lines stack and twist around each other, almost certainly done to minimise the width of any excavation work.

(Source: Wikipedia)