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More fun with the Stereographic Street View hack. As it turns out, you can do a lot more than just make those cute little mini-planets. Long, low buildings, for example, can be fun to play a… Read More

Thanks to Brainpicker for alerting me to the presence of what may be the best Google Maps hack I've seen yet, Stereographic Street View. Now I know what I'm going to be doing for pretty much… Read More

A Year in New York from Andrew Clancy on Vimeo.Goddamnit, this one's good. Also: clearly made by a Queenser. +1 Read More

Evening PresentationsIntroduction - Mike Lydon (The Street Plans Collaborative)Early example of  tactical urbanism: Paris book boxes along the Siene; interesting parallel between h… Read More

IntroductionMike Lydon - The Street Plans CollaborativeAurash Khawarzad - DoTank:Brooklyn / Project for Public SpacesML: Idea for the TUS was to look at short-term actions driving long… Read More

IntroductionMike Lydon - The Street Plans CollaborativeAurash Khawarzad - DoTank:Brooklyn / Project for Public SpacesML: Idea for the TUS was to look at short-term actions driving long… Read More

Pecha KuchaBroLab BroLab used Q32 bus line between Flux Factory & Momenta Art to stage "Bench Press"; created a template & built benches along bus lines.Project allowed people t… Read More

A few years ago I made a series of hackmaps, using Google Earth to cobble together a few visualizations of alternate urban realities. I'd always planned to post some of the better ones to Wh… Read More

The new issue of MAS Context is out today, and you can read the whole thing online here, or buy a printed copy here. I've got an article on the effect of mobile, digital tech on the future o… Read More

Oh joy, thecolorof works for architects, too! There are some fascinating results--so many, in fact, that you'll have to travel beyond the jump, as I don't want them mobbing the Where homepag… Read More

I found thecolorof.com this evening (via Curiosity Counts), which layers recent images from Flickr sharing a common tag over each other to create swatches that resemble abstract impressionis… Read More

Photo CreditLast month, Newsweek produced a list of "dying" cities in the US with "bleak" futures based solely on population loss over the past few decades. For the Love of Cities author Pet… Read More

Photo creditSome clever artist has plastered a series of stylized yellow protractors (or are they bridges?) around Pittsburgh, each with a (presumably) sequential number from one up into the… Read More

Woke up this morning to discover new Google Earth satellite imagery of Manhattan, complete with the fully-pedestrianized & mural'd Times Square. Great light too, Midtown usually looks so… Read More

Image by Flickr user philipbouchardRevisiting a few posts that I wrote for Next American City a couple of years ago via more recent news items:From Neighborhoods as Brands (March 2008): &nbs&hell…Read More

Natalia from Polis has already nerded out on the potential for apps to collect use-pattern data to aid urban planners as illustrated by the recent Nike+ 1000 Runs mapping project. Personall… Read More

Sylvan Terrace, one of my favorite sites of "urban delight" in ManhattanThis week was like a big traffic jam of awesome in the urban-o-sphere. No time for dithering introductions, on to the… Read More

Just read this evening that SOM's plan for the game-changing redevelopment of the bay's manmade Treasure Island has been approved. I interviewed the lead architect, Craig Hartman, about the… Read More

Just read this evening that SOM's plan for the game-changing redevelopment of the bay's manmade Treasure Island has been approved. I interviewed the lead architect, Craig Hartman, about the… Read More

Image from the NY Daily NewsI try to keep Where fairly upbeat, but this one's got me too annoyed not to write about: apparently Far Rockaway's city councilman, James Sanders, threw such a sp… Read More

Image from Fast CompanyEspecially interesting in light of Monday's post: Fast Company reports today on Nintendo's new Wii U controller, proclaiming that "living room entertainment just got o… Read More

Image from Wikimedia CommonsLast summer, Newsweek reported that researchers had identified an unnerving trend: American childrens' scores on creativity tests (a la the Torrance Test) were, f… Read More

Mindrelic - Manhattan in motion from Mindrelic on Vimeo.I've gotten kind of bored with urban timelapse videos since they've become A Thing, but this is head and shoulders above the rest. Rea… Read More

That's a Wordle of the top ten words from the 50 items that were in my starred folder on Google Reader when I started putting together this post. The order is totally random...and vaguely po… Read More

Photo credit: saracinoHeading into a much-needed long weekend. Memorial Day means extra reading time!ITEM ONE: Anyone who's familiar with the unique joy of finding an easter egg in a video g… Read More

With 166 people per square mile, Honduras is in the middle of the pack as far as national population densities are concerned. But what would it look like if you packed every single Honduran… Read More