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Reshaping New York

From buildings to bike lanes to painting over Broadway, how the city changed in 12 years of Bloomberg

By the New York Times

https://www.som.com/video/chicago-lakeside-development-winner-sustainia-community-award-2012 "Chicago Lakeside Development is an ambitious urban development project that plans to transform a vacant former home of a steel mill into a frontrunner in sustainable city planning. In this video, Doug Voigt, SOM Director of Urban Design and Planning, and Ed Woodbury, President of McCaffery Interests, discuss Chicago Lakeside's win of the 2012 Sustainia Community Award."

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"Happy Tuesday" - Paris

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Thesis, photo collage visualizing roadway transformations.

—with Jordan Beggs, production help + moral support.

Hey, love your ud blog. Are you a student...or professional in LA by any chance?

Thank you! Hopefully everyone doing creative city things will find some inspiration here. I’m an urban designer - you can find me on Twitter @mackenziekeast

Rooftop soccer in Tokyo. Creative use of vertical density is essential.

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#NYC’s High Line Section 3 renderings

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Jenni Sparks’ Hand Drawn New York

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Commissioner’s Map of 1811 for City of New York establishing street grid up to 155th Street. Read article in Urban Times: How We’ve Ignored the Complex Simplicity of the Manhattan Street Grid

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Eighth and Peral, Boulder, Colorado

This challenging mixed-use project is located at Eighth and Pearl Streets, three blocks to the west of Boulder’s Downtown Mall. Retail uses on the ground floor provided new homes for four local businesses including a bakery/cafe. Offices, including Wolff Lyon Architects’ home, are located on the second floor. There are five residential townhomes with front porches and small gardens. Landscaped upper and lower terraces provide the internal circulation to each suite. Forty parking spaces are cleverly hidden on-site with many of them located in a garage built into the hill. Roof-top terraces provide fine views of the Flatirons. Designed to respond to Boulder’s historic platting of 25’ wide lots, there are subtle changes in brick color and building articulation, which help the new structure fit into the existing neighborhood. The building is one of the first to be built in Boulder’s Business Main Street zoning district which Wolff Lyon helped craft with city planners. Finally, this mixed-use project provides a transition from the commercial character of Pearl Street to the traditional development patterns of the historic Mapleton Hill district.

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Ye olde San Francisco, 1855 or ‘56.

Six-part Panorama of San Francisco (+ details, including view down Stockton Street and Telegraph Hill and view of harbor with ships) from San Francisco Album: Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco, 1855–56, attributed to Carleton Watkins, photographer, and G. R. Fardon, printer. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007.53.a–.f

Answering a question on our Facebook page: What’s the oldest photo of the Western hemisphere in the collection? Cataloguer Miriam Katz:

The oldest Western Hemisphere photograph in the Getty Museum’s collection is a daguerreotype of Washington Square, New York, taken in 1839. We also have a pair of salted paper print portraits taken by O.B. DeMorat of Philadelphia in the 1850s, and several landscape views of San Francisco around 1855–56. Our oldest South American photographs are daguerreotypes from Chile and Peru from roughly 1850–55.