• Uber and the appropriation of public space
• Who Really Owns Public Spaces?
  At the Center for Architecture through September 6
• New York City After Global Warming
• Facebook Tinkers With Users’ Emotions in News Feed Experiment, Stirring Outcry, here is the paper: Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks (PDF), How not to Apologize about breaking user’s trust, and Facebook might have broken the law
• It’s time for architects to make their own demands
  How about talk less, do more, and demand less?
• Oregon Study Finds 94 Percent of Cyclists Stop at Red Lights
• World War I in Photos: A Century Later
• A New Mapping Tool Lets NYC Residents Peek Into Developers’ Plans
  Hopefully not a NIMBY generator
• 5 Lessons U.S. Transit Systems Should Learn from London
• Urban Giants

 

Urban Giants from Telx on Vimeo.

• Sharing Cultural Jewels via Instagram
• How to Build a Better Neighborhood
• China Laughed When It Saw How Cheap Solar Could Be
• Visualizing MBTA Data
• Are Baby Boomers Really Keeping Millennials From Finding Jobs?
  Short answer: maybe/probably
• The Architecture of StoryCorps Tells Its Own Story
• The Los Angeles Times and its Disgraceful Reporting on High Speed Rail

• A Price Tag on Carbon as a Climate Rescue Plan
• While the Economy Grows, Americans Continue to Drive Less
  Less roads, please
• Why Do We Love Manhattanhenge So Much?
  Because it’s awesome
• BCXSY create linear clock for Designers’ Days
• Great moments in ferry advocacy
  NYC Ferries are part of the network, but expansion and subsidization should be halted in favor of expanded an expanded CitiBike network and more subways
• On Airport Connectors
  I think there is a confusion about what airport connectors are good for – getting people where they want to go, often the business center. Heathrow Express is a damn find connection to CBD (but also has an Underground connection to the city); Airtrain of either EWR or JFK variety lack easy connections to the CBD; the Silver Line in Boston is just slow.
• Where did Star Wars come from (below)?

• Remembering the Designer Who Changed the Way We Think About Transit Maps
• Berlin residents block Tempelhof airport plans
  more housing would have helped the city and not destroyed the open space
• The Internet with a Human Face
• Know Your Double
  a doppelgänger field guide
• NY Train Project
  Designer Adam Chang draws the tile work of the NY Subway’s Manhattan stations
• Replica Buildings
  Buy tiny building replicas

• This is wrong: Fare Dodging Is an Organized Rebellion in Stockholm, and It’s Winning
• Re-imagining the energy dashboard display
• In Met’s Future, a Redesigned Modern Art Wing
• Why cyclists should be able to roll through stop signs and ride through red lights
• How the Neighborhoods of Manhattan Got Their Names
  
• Pixel Track, by BERG (movie below)

• Rent-Regulated Tenants Excluded From Amenities
• Beacons, marketing and the neoliberal logic of space, or: The Engelbart overshoot
• Happy Pills by Fabio Novembre for Venini
• Mapping Building Interiors through magnetic “fingerprint” of the structure
• Design Is About Intent
• Breathing City – work versus home animation of Manhattan

1. Dead Malls: Blight on Suburban Landscape
2. A Design History Of The Life-Saving Triage Tag
3. Our Smartphones Are Making Live TV Better Than Ever
4. Re-Thinking the Game of Monopoly
5. Super Mariachi Bros
6. Austere, L.A.’s New Scandinavian Design Superstore (WSJ link)
7. Conservative Pro-Growth Policies Don’t Actually Produce Any Growth

 

The illusion of life from cento lodigiani on Vimeo.

• On the LIRR & MetroNorth and Two Railroads, Two Types of Third Rail (the new M8 & M9 car will offer interoperability)
• A Look Back at L.A.’s Union Station, on Its 75th Anniversary
• What Does Vision Zero Mean for Greenpoint?
• May 10th is National Train Day
• Greenpoint Gallery Night / Art This Friday (5/9)

• California High Speed Rail Final Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement: Fresno to Bakersfield
• Life and leadership lessons from Dungeons & Dragons
• Conservative Groups Trains Its Hysterical Eye on Renewable Energy
• A visit to Finex Cast Iron Cookware Company
• Wind Turbines Don’t Kill Very Many Birds
• The Times is On It: In which The Times discovers waterfront light rail & Is the waterfront streetcar a solution looking for a problem?