Buffalo: America’s Best Designed City
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The story of Buffalo, New York's world class urban design and how today's generation is rediscovering and restoring 'America's Best Designed City.'
Produced / Directed by John ...
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 pushe...
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 roundabou...
Clean The City, of Visual Pollution
An article from Good highlights the astonishing law that Sao Paulo, Brazil passed back in 2006 that aimed to clean up the city. That is, of visual pollution. The Clean City Law was a bold move to take down an...
Batty & Longley’s 1994 Book Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function is now available as a free PDF!
This is one that I am excited to get my hands on. Fractal Cities is very hard to find, and expensive when it is found. While I could spend entirely too much time editorializing it, I'm just going to send over t...