John Cruz
Trailer for Brussel Express
BRUSSEL EXPRESS – A documentary about bike couriers in Brussels, the most congested city in Europe with only 4% cycling traffic. Online soon.
Confessions of a former Sprawl Addict
The Managing Principal of PlaceMakers, Hazel is an electrical engineer with an MBA. She organizes the SmartCode Workshop and Placemaking@Work webinar education series. Hazel guides governments through zoning reform to allow walkable, mixed-use, compact, sustainable places to develop. She helps developers build under form-based codes. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a [...]
Timelapse video of Kiev, Ukraine
This gorgeous timelapse video shows how people live in Kiev. The more I learn about the 2nd world, the more fascinated I get by it. This is just another example. The video shows varying aspects of Ukranian city life, from subway travel to shopping. Created by Efim Graboy & Daria Turetski Music: Adam Burns / [...]
Twenty-one global Cities nominate solutions to meet challenges for 110 million citizens.
The Urbanist Dispatch is proud to be a collaborating partner for the Living Labs Global Award 2012. New innovative ideas are needed to move cities forward, and the 2012 nominees have been announced! Please check out the following press release: Living Labs Global jointly with 21 global cities has announced a shortlist of over 100 innovative, [...]
Melbourne City Planner Rob Adams: “Bigger Cities are Better Cities”
From the YouTube Description: As Director of Design & Urban Environment for the City of Melbourne with nearly 40 years experience as a practising architect and urban designer, Rob has produced a large number of strategic urban design solutions and projects in addition to design-research based urban projects and strategies, and has attracted over 100 [...]
Insights into a Lively Downtown
This video case study on Ann Arbor, MI was done by Westphal Associates. You can purchase it and their other works to own at http://www.westphalassociates.com/store 42.2808256 -83.74303780000002
Are days numbered for one-way streets?
While for years many people have favored one way streets as a quick way to get in and out of town, they have come under recent fire as being ineffective and confusing, but new evidence shows that like roundabouts, their negative perceptions fade once implimented. A new look on one-way streets from the National Post [...]
Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell defends cities, Obama budget
Grand Rapids Mayor took to mlive.com yesterday morning with an article defending cities and the Obama budget. The former city commissioner and ordained minister’s editorial list’s off a healthy number of reasons why he supports the budget as our President has proposed, citing a lack of local funds and struggles in keeping services such as [...]
Metropolis II by Chris Burden
Great video I found on YouTube, the following is from the YouTube description A short doc about a kinetic sculpture that took four years to build. We had the honor of spending three days in Chris Burden’s studio filming this sculpture before it was moved to the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA) where [...]
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