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My Brooklyn. Well worth seeing. More info @ www.mybrooklynmovie.com

#Brooklyn #gentrification #new york city #Fulton Mall

In 2003 an abandoned basket ball stadium in Osaka Japan, was repurposed into the Namba Parks complex. Consisting of a high rise office, 120 tenant shopping mall and this lush publicly accessible green roof.

"The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile. . . . It was ugliness which betrayed the spirit of man, in the 19th century. The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the workers to ugliness, ugliness, ugliness: meanness and formless and ugly surroundings, ugly ideals, ugly religion, ugly hope, ugly love, ugly clothes, ugly furniture, ugly houses, ugly relationship between workers and employers. The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread." - D.H. Lawrence

http://www.amielandmelburn.org.uk/collections/ulr/04_socialthinking.pdf

#cities #England #industrialization #D.H. Lawrence

Also at the Museum of the City of New York: loads of retro futurism!

Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s. http://goo.gl/0ImuZ

I want to go to there.

#retro futurism #new york city #museum of the city of new york #World's Fairs

'Making Room' in the City, via New York Times http://goo.gl/JkaNe

Exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York (http://goo.gl/dN4ia) showcases new ways of accommodating New York City's growing number of single apartment occupants. I [heart] full scale models.