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Ronda Kaysen: Atlantic Yards Goes Prefab →
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Crain’s is reporting that Bruce Ratner really is going to build the world’s tallest prefab tower at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn.
After he fielded the idea, I wrote a story for The New York Times about the potential of building large, prefab buildings.
There are other large-scale prefab…
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More and more the spaces of the modern city are being produced for us rather...
– Don Mitchell The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space (2003) at 18. (via urbanjoburg)
Oh Don, you wily Marxist geographer, you.
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Cities are like electrical transformers: they increase tension, accelerate...
– Fernand Braudel (1967)
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There is a lot of evidence that people want bicycles
– New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
A Spooky Reminder to Obey the Speed Limit - NYTimes.com
April 2011
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Buildings, in their simplest form, are made of vectors and envelopes. How one...
– Bernard Tschumi
Gilles de Bure. Bernard Tschumi. Basel: Birkhauser, 2008. p 116.
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The most vital element for the future of our cities is that the bicycle is an...
– - Kasey Klimes, The Real Reason Why Bicycles are the Key to Better Cities
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ridetheblackline:
ELLIPTICAL SHAPES
Club Bianchi takes us along for some laps around the YA Arena Velodrome in Falun.
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Despite ominous warnings from the country’s engineers, infrastructure...
– Infrastructure Cuts Would Make the Unthinkable Unsurvivable | Truthout
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