UrbanTALK

Sharing interesting thoughts a topics on architecture and urban design

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Lecture: Mega-Cities, Urban Poverty and Planning / Janice E. Perlman

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Paris 1914

experience old times in Paris 

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Rethink the educational environment, community priorities and spaces. Help growing imagination of future minds by complex incentives

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colorful pigeons  at the venice biennale 2012

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Contemporary Japanese residential design

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"What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change the narrative of food in their community."

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MVRDV - Almere Oosterwold

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Paris vs NewYork

http://parisvsnyc.blogspot.com/

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Why Some People Are Better At Drawing Than Others

Since the dawn of human art-making, the divide has been clear: There are people who can effortlessly sketch an object's likeness, and people who struggle for hours just to get the angles and proportions right (by which point the picture is scarred by eraser marks, anyway). What separates the drawers from the drawer-nots?

Ongoing research is revealing the answer to this longstanding question. It seems that realistic drawing ability hinges on three factors: how a person perceives reality, how well he or she remembers visual information from one moment to the next, and which elements of an object he or she selects to actually draw.

If you're stuck on stick figures, the good news, according to researchers at the University College London, is that people can improve at all these mental processes with practice.

continue reading at huffingtonpost

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Hearth warming work with classic materials, creates very rich environment full of details. 

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Photoshop Cutouts tutorial

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I would like to point out to very interesting website. Flowingcity presents different approaches towards mapping of a city. For example based on GPI tracking or API data stream from different social networks. 

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NYC has published over one hundred thousand photos from their archives mapping all periods of city development, biggest events and also daily life, murders and romance.

New York Municipal Archives

if you are exepriencing troubles opening NY photo archives try it at different time, due to large file size of photos, server is being overloaded from time to time.

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