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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 / [...]
Karachi’s Unplanned Poor
Imagine everything is new, bright and shiny. Imagine this new is something that also keeps you out, pushes you away, and finds you abandoning the place you once called home. When the poor in society are pushed away from where they once were due to a combination of a lack in planning on their behalf, [...]
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 [...]
5 Takeaways from “Defend Your Ride”
Towards the end of last year I had the opportunity to produce a blog feature for CBS Detroit called Defend Your Ride (which is why there was a bit of a lull in posting for a while). The segment is being done in numerous cities around the country and I was called on to head [...]
(Slum)Lord of the Inner-Ring
Across the street is a partially run down home, with the front screen door off its hinges, peeling paint all around the house, and a partially collapsed garage door. This is the site you see outside your front window every day. What you also see are the kids that leave for school every morning from [...]
Perceptions on Density: Is it too crowded in Big Sky Country?
Out west lies a massive state with a relatively low population – the big Sky State of Montana. With the population of Montana officially crossing over the 1 million person hurdle, you wouldn’t think there would be much of a fuss. After all, Montana has more senators than it does house representatives (by comparison, the [...]
Urban Planning 101 – Walkability
You’ve probably never heard of Collingwood, Ontario. It’s a smaller municipality on the north shores of Ontario, Northwest of Toronto. They have a YouTube channel where their planning department takes a look at different planning principles of planning and aspects of what they do. This video is a segment on walkability. You can check out [...]
Don’t Worry, The Code Officer Will Handle It From Here
Code enforcement exists in Detroit, MI. No, really. But in case you ever wondered what they did (you know, to pass the time) the Detroit Works Project has an idea. Under Mayor Dave Bing, Detroit will enact a triage type strategy that targets healthy neighborhoods with code enforcement crackdowns. The idea is to protect the [...]
Night of the Living Burbs
When I was a kid, I grew up in a subdivision in Clinton Township, Michigan (a northern suburb of Detroit). Despite being part of the urban sprawl that is the greater metro United States, this neighborhood was about as non-walkable as could be. There were (and still aren’t) any sidewalks, many of the houses were set fairly [...]
The Proximity of Actions
“He who stands unyielding and immovable upon a principle is often a fool, and often bigoted, and usually left standing alone with his principle while other men adjust their differences and go on.” – Bendigo Shafter, in the story by the same name, author Louis L’Amour This article from Q (a Christian website that discusses, [...]
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