Amsterdam Real Time
Amsterdam Real Time offers a model of how to wire a whole population with GPS to keep track of their daily movements through a city, which of course can be the first step to charging for street use. Or more.
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Aug 21, 2003
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Three Rules of Urban Design
Buy the book
- Click on cover
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The essence of "city-ness"
My own favorite posts
- "Client"? or "Supplicant"?
- "Crimogenic?" No, Bunkogenic.
- "Jam tomorrow" but never Jam today
- "Open space"
- "The future is classical" --- Yes, but site plan trumps architecture
- A model from Paris for the Viaduct
- And moralizing about urban form comes from both left and right
- Anti-"collectivists" should stop talking
- Archibabble
- Bauhaus in Tel Aviv & Pedestrian-Oriented Buildings
- Boiling a zoning code down to the basics
- Can a starchitect be a good urbanist?
- Deaf Smith County Peanut Butter
- Disney Hall: The Good, The Bad and...the Beautiful?
- Does it offer any guidance except thunderingly abstract pieties?
- Don't look to higher oil prices as a savior
- Dost thou blog?
- From the trenches indeed
- Gideon Strauss likes "the book" too.
- Hello Columbus to the I-670 Cap
- How basic are visual preferences in landscape?
- in medias res
- John Young Architect reviews the first edition of City Comforts
- Koolhaas library design: Making excuses for a bad decision?
- Koolhaas Library: Pre-construction analysis
- Libeskind's "Spiral Extension"
- LID for the Viaduct
- Look what I built
- Michael Blowhard likes City Comforts, the Book
- Modern urbanism starts with parking
- Mumbo jumbo to you but widom to your neighbor --- what else is new?
- Neighborhoods with Underground Wiring are More Valuable
- No question about it.
- Parking is the tail that wags the building
- Perfect Information, under an umbrella
- Phil langdon's opinion of City Comforts
- Pre-fab housing -- why not?
- Starbucks created an industry
- Terry Teachout,too, likes City Comforts, the Book
- The "default position" is a rebuttable presumption
- the "Three Rules" chapter from "City Comforts"
- The destruction of Paris
- The future may be more ordinary than we can possibly imagine.
- The irreducible essence of city-ness
- The Retrofit is the only politically-realistic solution.
- The sidewalk has no ideology
- The theory of "City Comforts" -- in a nutshell: "Brilliance innovates, genius borrows."
- There is life after the Three Rules
- This animated GIF illustrates what animates the city. Now how do I improve it?
- Urban planning starts with the location of the parking lot
If you haven't, read Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. I've heard it called "nerd-boy masturbatory fiction, both figuratively and literally" by those who don't like it, but it has some interesting mathematical parts to it even if you don't like the story.
In particular, I'm thinking of the section whereby the main character wants to put little beacons on everybody in London's forehead. He suggests recording the square waves coming off people's beacons as they step up and down curbs when crossing streets--record enough ups and downs and times in between them, and you can assemble the data into a street map of London. The book is full of such entertainingly useless means of data generation. :)
Posted by: Murph | Aug 22, 2003 at 06:37 AM