City. Life. Change.

A blog about city planning, urban design, history, sociology and cooking. As a passionate chef, photos of completed dishes will be included. Photography and articles can be discovered here as well. She lives in Oakland, CA.

[design-is-fine]

Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Hyacinth from Choix des plus belles fleurs, 1827. Via flickr

[salon]

From “The Big Bang Theory” to “The Odd Couple” reboot, a mild undercurrent of gay panic follows on-screen bromance

Writers in the LGBT community have dubbed this type of thing “queer-baiting”—where a show puts two same-sex characters in an intimate partnership and plays up their chemistry but then insists, on-screen and off-, that the relationship is purely platonic. It’s a calculated doublespeak; the obvious chemistry snags the fans who are interested in the queer relationship, but the show can distance itself from homosexuality at a moment’s notice.

Why do we force on-screen mean to put so many safety measures into place in order to demonstrate, receive, and enjoy affection?

[micdotcom]

Stunning Australian street art shows the world the true face of LGBT people

Australian street artist Astrotwitch launched “Queer the Streets" last year based on the idea that, as they wrote on Tumblr, all the “queer community needs is simply for more people to know that they exist.” Their works are incredible — and every one has the potential to create a change.

[mapsontheweb]

Light Pollution in the US.

Interactive map that includes the whole Earth

[-circa]

[urbnfutr]

The nomadic, transient nature of contemporary life has made diffusion the order—and disorder—of the city. The bulldozer and the wrecking ball have played their roles.

Studs Terkel, Division Street: America, 1967 (via urbnfutr)

[nevver]

What if

[vacilandoelmundo]

Kangaroo Island, Australia

[centuriespast]

MIGNARD, Pierre Portrait of Françoise-Marguerite, Countess of Grignan - Oil on canvas, 68 x 56 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

[archatlas]

[archatlas]

The City of London  Christopher Dina

[fiftyyearstoolate]

[youngparis]

the future of Africa…

"Golden Youth" by Oliver Kruger. Dedicated to the Cultural Preservation of the African Aesthetic

[micdotcom]

11 lies about breakups we need to stop telling 

1. You shouldn’t dwell on it.

Yes, you should. A recent study from the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science found that critically thinking about and dwelling on a past relationship (preferably while eating a tub of ice cream) might actually expedite the healing process. By allowing ourselves to work out what went wrong in a relationship, researchers found that recently heartbroken people could quickly rebuild the sense of self they once had as a single person, according to the study.

The truth about rebound sex

[abiesque-blog]

Boise, Idaho, by Scotty Perkins

[atlurbanist]

Warm and cool colors on Downtown Atlanta buildings

[savedbythe-bellhooks]

[ikwt]

Manhattan Bridge (Noki Va) | ikwt