Time lapse in the mountains of La Palma.
Panic over petrol supply in Egypt! Basically, speculation that there are gas shortages are causing this fuel panic throughout the country. Taken from Associated Press.
secret republic: Signs of Progress: A Roundup
The world seems to be in a rather sour mood, my superpower-in-decline homeland (that would be the United States of America) being an uncharacteristically pessimistic lot as of late. Amidst economic chaos, environmental catastrophes, seemingly endless military conflicts; there’s plenty of…
The infrastructure.: Urban Parking
Los Angeles Magazine recently published a wonderful article about urban parking, starring Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at UCLA. There are so many good illustrations of the cost, both to the landowner and to the user, of urban parking in this article. It’s astonishing. Take this…
22@Barcelona
A Happy, Flourishing City With No Advertising
“Big cities don’t need to plaster ads everywhere to exist—though you’d never know it looking at Times Square—and even if they did, Kassab (mayor of São Paulo) and his supporters haven’t banned all advertising. All they’ve asked is for companies to stop cramming commercials down people’s throats while simultaneously ruining their city’s beauty.
Estimates say some Americans now look at upwards of 4,000 ads per day. When is enough enough?”
Missing Link of Climate Change, Single-Family Suburban Homes
From The Atlantic, on the need to address the land-use issues of suburban areas. A very tough thing to do, but realistically one of the first things cities need to do to create momentum for sustainable cities.
Jaime Lerner and Curitiba
