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An Urban Surveillance Map Of Vancouver
The Vancouver Public Space Network mapped CCTV locations in the metropolitan core, revealing the geography of surveillance: The preliminary map that we created indicates the places where surveillance...
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Guerrilla Urban Planners Redo Mexico City By Painting Bike Lanes, Sidewalks,...
This Big City talks to Camina, Haz Ciudad, a group which extralegally redesigns public space to benefit ordinary residents: Camina, Haz Ciudad started as a project to recover space for pedestrians. It...
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Designing A City Impenetrable To Drones
Chapati Mystery lays out plans for the hypothetical Shura City, a place of beauty and atmosphere and freedom of movement, but no fear of U.S. drone strikes: Drones work by detecting patterns,...
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Institute Pinpoints Which Cities May Be Consumed By Rising Sea Levels
If you’re planning on being cryogenically frozen and then revived in the 22nd century, consider selling your apartment in Tokyo now. New Scientist writes: Sydney, Tokyo and Buenos Aires watch out....
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Mayor Mike Bloomberg Says Surveillance Drones Will Soon Be Everywhere In New...
The mayor’s tone suggests that mere mortals are helpless against a coming onslaught of drones, The Verge reports: Governmental use of unmanned surveillance drones has inspired a lot of concern about...
View ArticleUnderground Sweatshop City Uncovered In Moscow
Russian police just raided a secret underground city beneath Moscow inhabited by hundreds of illegal immigrant workers employed making clothing at rows of sewing machines. The subterranean world, where...
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On The Consumerist Order Of The New City
New Left Project describes the reshaping of the meaning and rules of our cities: The commercialisation of the urban landscape has resulted in the privatisation of public space. As manufacturing...
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Map shows the loudest and quietest areas in the US
National Park Service Division of Natural Sounds and Night Skies Brad Plumer | @bradplumer via Vox: Not surprisingly, cities tend to be very noisy, with background levels averaging around 50 to 60...
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Ancient Settlements Grew Bigger And Denser Much Like Our Modern Cities
We can probably learn something from the fate of the large ancient settlements that failed. From Tech Times: Modern cities with large populations and dense areas tend to be productive. Remarkably,...
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World population will be around 15-25 billion in 2100 and will increase...
Via Next Big Future: The United Nations (UN) recently released population projections based on data until 2012 and a Bayesian probabilistic methodology. Analysis of these data reveals that, contrary...
View ArticleOn Urban Inequality And The Tree Gap
May we demand the presence of trees? Despite their secret importance, the appearance of trees in American cities corresponds with wealth, Per Square Mile reveals: Research published a few years ago...
View ArticleHow Drones Will Change Life In Our Cities
Ready yourself to hear, “Pizza incoming from above”. Animal New York on how petite unmanned drones are poised to reshape the urban environment, possibly as soon as three years from now: The... The post...
View ArticleQueen Rat: Victorian London’s Sewer Succubus
Toshers were scavengers who explored the vast, ancient sewers of Victorian London in search of lost coins and salvage, but even greater rewards awaited those fortunate enough to encounter the legendary...
View ArticleOakland’s Law Enforcement Economy
A lot of thought is devoted to the prison-industrial complex, but what about the political economy of police and law enforcement? Pueblo Lands on the Oakland Police Department: Oakland’s position...
View ArticleOn Fighting Against Hegemonic Urban Development
BayOfRage reveals infrastructure and redevelopment projects in Oakland (and beyond) as a means of reshaping cities for social control: Further development will not open space for meaningful social...
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