About a year ago talk began about the NACTO* Urban Street Design Guide. This video indicates that it might be out next month! September 23, 2013 to be precise. You can even pre-order, if you are are into that sort of thing. This guide may be an important step in helping to adjust Federal transportation […]
Archive | August, 2013
A graphic artist tackles the New York City subway: Part II
Randall John Gregory II (or Randy, for short) is not only a graduate student at the School of Visual Arts, but he is also an innovative thinker and designer for the masses. Recently, we think Randy has been putting his design skills to good use in the realm of mass transit. He has put together not […]
It’s not you, it’s me: a breakup letter to Brookings
My dear Brookings Institution, you recently wrote up a blog post on the importance of manufacturing hubs to kick-start America’s new industrial economy. By the time you read this, I will be miles away, hidden behind a computer. So I feel that I can safely say what needs to be said: you wrote a lot, […]
End of the Suburbs by Leigh Gallagher
PRESS Pass: Leigh Gallagher. A couple of interviews with Leigh Gallagher have recently been published (including the above video link) about her new book The End of the Suburbs. Her book looks at the history of the suburbs and the recent demographic shifts that have been occurring and what it means for the future of […]
A graphic artist tackles the New York City subway: Part I
Randall John Gregory II (or Randy, for short) is not only a graduate student at the School of Visual Arts, but he is also an innovative thinker and designer for the masses. Recently, we think Randy has been putting his design skills to good use in the realm of mass transit. He has put together not […]
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Are we closer to utopia?
Last century, architects and urban planners had to deal with the fact that vehicles were rapidly increasing their presence in cities. To solve the relationship between cars and pedestrians, some proposed to separate them. A relevant example of these urban planners was Clarence Perry, who developed a concept in the early 1900’s called the “Neighborhood Unit” […]
Google’s Public Data Directory
Want to lose a couple of hours of your life playing with data visualizations? Then continue reading. I was recently snooping around for US Highway Statistics (yup, that’s what I do for fun) and came across the Federal Highway Administration’s statistics series web page. Falling deeper through the internet rabbit-hole, I found their Public Data […]
Guide to Vienna: Part 3 - Brief History of Vienna
Welcome to Vienna! My in-laws recently travelled to Vienna, Austria, and asked me to give them some advice and a few tips for their visit. My short list of points of interest quickly grew to several pages and included a brief, opinionated, somewhat political, description of Vienna in its Austrian context. Here is a slightly […]
Temporal planning: a forgotten dimension
In an Urban Institute report released last week, it was found that one out of every five US workers clocks-in between the hours of 6:00 pm and 6:00 am. As well, the lower a worker’s wages, the more likely they are to work during odd hours: nearly 1/3 of low-wage workers are employed during evenings, […]
