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Melbourne, Australia. Image Credits: stephenk1977 on Flickr

The Melbourne Experience: Public lecture on urban planning at SFU Continuing Studies

December 10, 2012

Courtesy of Youtube and SFU. "Metro Vancouver has been noted for its ability to accommodate growth while maintaining good quality of life for residents. Still, the region faces challenges in pursuing the goa...

Terminal Communication

John Cruz

December 2, 2012

Videos

Terminal Communication is a fixed-frame work featuring the actions of drivers as they approach a badly signed junction leading into Rosslare Harbour ferry port, in County Wexford. Filmed from a vantage point ov...

What Makes Paris look like Paris?

John Cruz

August 20, 2012

Videos

Some really cool stuff is happening over at Carnegie Mellon University. Given a large repository of geotagged imagery, we seek to automatically find visual elements, e.g. windows, balconies, and street signs, ...

Transit Oriented Economic Development for Rust Belt American Cities

John Cruz

August 13, 2012

Economic Development, Featured

The final work of my graduate program at Wayne State was a masters essay on TO(E)D for Rust Belt cities, since this has been the reason why updates have been so sparse as of late, I felt that it was only fair t...

Kami Pothukuchi. Image courtesy of Wayne State University

Kami Pothukuchi: D2020 Person of the Week for August 3, 2012

John Cruz

August 12, 2012

Videos

Detroit 2020 wites that: For our Person of the Week we selected a woman who has worked to spread the word about the benefits of a motor city harvest. Every day during the growing season you can find Kami Po...

Brussels Express

John Cruz

April 20, 2012

Videos

From the Vimeo Description: A documentary about bike messengers in Brussels, the most congested city in Europe with only 4% cycling traffic. Please watch in fullscreen. (2012 - 19 min) Directed, shot ...

Manhattan. Photo courtesy of andrew c mace on Flickr.

Cities and Free Markets: The Manufactured American Dream

John Cruz

April 18, 2012

Community and Neighborhoods, Culture, Featured, The Burbs

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For some reason or another people seem to associate cities with socialism and suburbs with the capitalist American dream. The notion that the strong middle class created American suburbia has been engraved in o...

Confessions of a former Sprawl Addict

John Cruz

April 5, 2012

Videos

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 re...

Timelapse video of Kiev, Ukraine

John Cruz

March 23, 2012

Videos

This gorgeous time lapse 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 cit...

Twenty-one global Cities nominate solutions to meet challenges for 110 million citizens.

John Cruz

March 6, 2012

News

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 chec...

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