Urban Resolve

Offering good urbanism for imitation & sharing opportunities for resolution.

[newsweekscience]

Dramatic Photos of California’s Historic Drought - In Focus - The Atlantic

[nbcnightlynews]

PG&E fined $1.4 billion over deadly 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion

[newurbanismfilmfestival]

Design vs human experience.

[oahficw]

Sometimes the city tells you how it wants to be designed. Listen!

[fastcompany]

Louisiana Is Going To End Up Underwater Sooner Than You Might Think

This is really happening: A swath of a U.S. state—and an entire culture—is about to be lost underwater.

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[urbanresolve-blog]

2016 Campaign Promise: Piano stairs in every subway stop!

[citylandscapes]

Telegraph Hill, San Francisco

Source: VanhamCanuckspurs (reddit)

[lestweforgetbvhp]

The San Francisco Rent Explosion

Data Visualisation by @priceonomics.

[fastcompany]

Based on travel patterns logged in your phone, one model shows how disaster response teams can see whether you’ll flee to a shelter, a friend’s, or your mom’s house.

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[urbanresolve-blog]

CNN Money highlighted the massive project in an article last week that explored why massive data companies, including Microsoft, Google and Facebook, are turning to the plains of Iowa for their extensive high-tech server needs.

[latimes]

Take California. Make six states. See pluribus ruin ‘em.

That’s a poem called “Recipe for Disaster” by Carole Cooper, who was one of nearly 1,000 people who submitted to this year’s Op-Ed poetry pages. Read some of the best poems here. (via latimes)

[justinslens]

[losangelesallday]

got a bottle, got a model, got a molly, got a blunt

[cornersoftheworld]

Paris, France | by eagle1effi

[calumet412]

Looking south on State at Jackson, 1892, Chicago

[urbanfunscape]

Turning Grey Boxes Into Green Spaces

Montreal builds on the parklet craze with innovative new urban spaces made from recycled shipping containers. Read more…

[publicdesignfestival]

The act of lying in public space is often uncommon or (worse still) prohibited. Not in the park of the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław (Poland), where Mikołaj Smoleński has upset ordinary. Within the sixth edition of Archi-box series, he has created Polegiwacz, a temporary architecture designed to lie down and relax. 

Photos by Krzystof Smyk _ All rights reserved.

[oahficw]

Want to go to there.

[urbanresolve-blog]

Raiders Closing In On Stadium Deal To Keep Team In Oakland

It looks like Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis got exactly what he wanted out of all of those fancy steak dinners in San Antonio and all that public kissy-face with Los Angeles. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the city of Oakland has cobbled together a deal for a new stadium that would keep the Raiders in town and leave taxpayers on the hook for $120 million.

[alexinsd]

[imaginingcities]

ClimateWorks is a San Francisco based foundation whose mission is to support public policies that prevent dangerous climate change and promote global prosperity. This infographic about wlkable neighborhoods is part of a document called Planning Cities for People, which was prepared for the Chinese government. The document, which contains 8 research-based recommendations that lead to prosperous, low-carbon urban areas, uses richly illustrated maps and diagrams to present examples of street-grids that promote walking, prioritize bicycle networks, create mixed-use neighbourhoods and support high-quality transit.

You can find the document here.