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Garlic Soup Source: Brooklyn Supper

Where food lovers unite.

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Tuileries Garden, Paris (by Olivier Guilmin)

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Vintage ‘Star Map’ of celebrity homes in Beverly Hills.

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Primary Structure by Jacob Dahlgren is a colorful steel sculpture, tracing lines under the shadow of a beech woodland. It’s one of the art instlalations of the Wanås Foundation located in the south of Sweden.

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Jane Jacobs - Downtown is for People (Fortune Classic, 1958)

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We adore this hand-drawn illustration of the Manhattan bridge, done by our very own Barcelona organizer Mister Mourao (aka Vasco Mourao). He did it as part of the 2012 campaign for The New Yorker Festival.

You can purchase a print here.

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Roni Aloni.

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Grafton Street Lights | Tom Lennon

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BACK TO THE CITY - STRATEGIES FOR INFORMAL URBAN INTERVENTIONS

Vacant city lots and buildings are often used as starting points for cultural innovations. Over the course of the transformation of the postindustrial city, public space has become an exciting laboratory for interdisciplinary cooperation between artists, architects, urban planners, and landscape architects.

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The Modern Plague of London map from 1886, was published by the Temperance Society and showed all public houses in the metropolis at the time. It is clear how such mapped evidence could be used to convey the large number of pubs at the time as being like an epidemic of disease. One of Charles Booth’s team - who updated the maps of poverty for the 1898-9 revised version - stated that his policemen interviewee “thought that in the interests of sobriety there should be a greater number [of pubs] than there are. For he said you get drunkenness rows where there was a crowd.” Apparently the ‘roughest’ Public Houses were at the corner of Commercial St & Wentworth St.