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- Data visualization introduction 2010/07/15
Data visualization is a pretty literal term that means, quite simply, the visual representation of quantitative data. In this course we’ll learn common techniques for visualizing data, as well as some strategies for managing information digitally. But first, a brief history. - Loren Mooney: Bikes are a City's Indicator Species 2010/07/11
- IMPROVISED HOMES IN AMSTERDAM INDUSTRIAL SQUATS 2010/07/11
This web-book presents a visual-conceptual-experiential documentation of four occupied industrial sites in central Amsterdam, researched and recorded between 1990 and 1997 and between 2006 and 2008. - Yes In My Backyard | Mother Jones 2010/07/11
Memo to urban environmentalists: Don't fight development—embrace it. - A Brief History of Transportation - - GOOD 2010/07/11
Infrographic: A visual history of getting places. - 3D compositions (concepts for Iron Man 2) 2010/07/09
The most interesting trend in the development of the Internet is not... - but does it float - Amazon.com: The Parking Garage: Design and Evolution of a Modern… 2010/07/09
The Parking Garage: Design and Evolution of a Modern Urban Form [Hardcover] - Shibuya_Crossing.ogv 2010/07/09
Video of Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo. The mass of people. - Coffee By Week, 2009 2010/07/09
Images of coffee by week for 2009. - Generification: When "Google" Becomes "google" - Wordtastic - GOOD 2010/06/27
- A Visual Feast of Rooftop Gardens - GOOD Blog - GOOD 2010/06/26
- The Future of the City - The Atlantic 2010/06/26
- Archigram Archival Project 2010/04/18
The Archigram Archival Project makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study. - Archinect : School Blog Project 2010/03/27
Archinect student blog from various arch/planning schools around the world. - WORLD Magazine | Centers of the battle | The Editors | Mar 27, 10 2010/03/25
We know why God loves cities: They are places where millions of people created in His image congregate, and what could be more beautiful than that?
- Data visualization introduction 2010/07/15
Tag Archives: Brian Blackmon
A radiant city
The 2006 mockumentary “Radiant City” is a jab at modern city planning and city sprawl. The central point of this film is that the planning behind cities that sprawl is the absence of any intelligence in design. “Radiant City” repeatedly makes the point that city sprawl, suburban homes, and modern strip malls are, as the narrator says, the worst allocation of resources in world history. (Read more)
Posted in Blog, Cities and Planning Also tagged city, density, design, essay, planning, transportation, urban, urban planning, urbanism, Wilmington, Wilmington NC Leave a comment
Cities and transportation: A longer essay
As the great Jane Jacobs says, “Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.”
As usual, Jacobs makes a great point. Automobiles and cities can work together, it is just that city planners do not know what to do with automobiles in cities. Since most cities have recognized the mistake of planning the city around the automobile and not the person, many have sought solutions to manage the growing problem of traffic congestion and the social, economic and environmental questions presented by continued urban sprawl due to auto dependence. One solution many cities have adopted is a rise in public support for increased public transit as a practical strategy to alleviate environmental concerns, reduce transportation infrastructure costs and ensure fair, affordable, and reliable transportation choices for individuals. However, not all cities have taken this route in mitigating transportation concerns, take for instance Wilmington, NC. (Read More)
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Cities and transportation: a brief essay
Here's a thought: If you want me to visit your city or downtown, provide a public way for me to get there.
I believe every downtown city advocate should celebrate the power and creative potential of urban density and of connecting people by putting them on sidewalks together and having them share ideas and physical space. This doesn’t cost as much as you think. In fact, it’s probably cheaper than your current “I’ll fix the problem by covering it up with a new streetscape” campaign. Ask Jaime Lerner, he knows. (Read More)
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Twitter Experiment
Let’s face it, twitter is a popularity contest and last night I decided to hang out with the cool kids. You know exactly who the cool kids are: the marketing whiz, the guru, the evangelist - the ever-present prophets of social media. I’ve been on twitter for about 6 months and… let’s face it, with only about 150 followers I’m the kid who’s still eating lunch alone in the corner. It was my time for a complete makeover, one worthy of it’s own TV show.
So last night I created a new twitter account with the hopes of hanging out with the cool kids. And there's one thing I know about the cool kids: they follow a lot of people. I mean a LOT of people, sometimes up to 150,000. At 11pm, I created the account and started mass following around midnight. Before I went to bed, I was following almost 600 people. When I woke up at 7 this morning, I had almost 300 followers. I found out that hanging with the cool kids means tweeting about cool things like marketing, social media, networking, and SEO! SEO! SEO! (People love SEO for some reason.) (Read More)
Rain
The world makes its own music, but we rarely listen with native ears.
I’ve always been obsessed with sounds and recently I’ve become very interested in field recordings. For this one, I started with almost twelve minutes of audio, of which I…
Sketches
Venturing back to my previous dreams of being an urban designer, I’ve decided to take these old sketches and digitize them using my new pen tablet.
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Last week iTunes surprised me with a little gem from January, sneaking in the song “My Girls” from Animal Collective’s most recent album Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009). I remember that when I first heard this album I wanted to write about it…
Help Brian out!
Do you want to make some extra money and help me out? Well, I need a temporary place to live. I love where I live, it’s just too expensive, and I’ve been trying my hardest to save everything I can.…
The Cape Fear Skyway