roomthily

portmanteau - The emphasized project in the image is perhaps the most violent scar left by a totalitarian regime through the flesh of a capital making Bucharest the most devastated European city in times of peace.

overlaying the “scar” of bucharest’s totalitarian urban improvements

Maximize your Halloween with New Urbanism

via Paul L. Knight

Candy lovers know that all you need is a costume and a bucket to satisfy your sweet tooth, but in order to maximize a Halloween outing one must focus on the numbers including route efficiency, candy distributors per block (typically dwelling units), and “candy density” (candy pieces per acre). These metrics will not only save you energy, they will also help maximize your time. As any ghoul or goblin knows, time is candy.

Atlas of Suburbanisms (Moos and Kramer)

Vancouver: Percentage of residents who drive to work, live in single-detached housing, and own their homes

via mammoth

Blinking City (Marcella Campa, Stafano Avesani) -chalk pastel collage of Hutong neighborhoods of Beijing stenciled onto a wall

via plenty of colour

robertogreco:

The London Perambulator is full length documentary by John Rogers.

John Rogers’ film looks at the city we deny and the future city that awaits us. Leading London writers and cultural commentators Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Russell Brand explore the importance of the liminal spaces at the city’s fringe, its Edgelands, through the work of enigmatic and downright eccentric writer and researcher Nick Papadimitriou - a man whose life is dedicated to exploring and archiving areas beyond the permitted territories of the high street, the retail park, the suburban walkways.

The ideas of psychogeography and Nick’s own deep topography are also explored.

(via David Smith)

robertogreco:

This is just one slide from Understanding the Child-Scale in the City (1): Excerpts from Rainy Day Treasures (雨の日の宝物）, by a-small-lab (Chris Berthelsen). If you work with children, live with children, or live with open eyes and a mind geared toward noticing, don’t miss the rest of the slides and the text that accompanies them.

shriyashriyashriya:

The Exposed City:  Mapping the Urban Invisibles By Nadia Amoroso 

“There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye – crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and air quality to name just a few. If a city was able to be defined by these characteristics, what form would it take? How could it be mapped?

Nadia Amoroso tackles these questions by taking statistical urban data and exploring how they could be transformed into innovative new maps. The “unseen” elements of the city are examined in groundbreaking images throughout the book, which are complemented by interviews with Winy Maas and James Corner, comments by Richard Saul Wurman, and sections by the SENSEable City Lab group and Mark Aubin, co-founder of Google Earth.” via humanscalecities

(Source: humanscalecities)

Parquette, a project game employing the herringbone pattern as a principle of reorganisation (archined)

via UrbanTick

urbantick:

Unfinished London - Quite funny, but very serious! An ongoing discussion.
In the 70s, an ambitious road-building project called ‘Ringways’ was cancelled and London narrowly escaped a fate much worse than traffic jams. Londres inacabado. Autopistas que nunca fueron, con un poco de humor
Via humanscalecities

datavis:

Megacities