Jeff Speck lecture tonight at UGA Chapel. Walkable City is a great book.
3-Way Street by Ron Con Coca Cola
The Oldest Surviving Aerial Photograph
Titled “Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It” the photo was taken by photographer James Wallace Black in October of 1860 from an altitude of about 2,000 feet.
Houston or SimCity?
It’s Houston.
(Yes, the Google Maps graphics are a bit of a giveaway)
Source: ecstasia
The Urbanist Toolkit Bracket Challenge
Athens prepares for new state water regulations
Apps for Land Planners:
Sitegeist - Sitegeist is a mobile application that helps you to learn more about your surroundings in seconds. Drawing on publicly available information, the app presents solid data in a simple at-a-glance format to help you tap into the pulse of your location. From demographics about people and housing to the latest popular spots or weather, Sitegeist presents localized information visually so you can get back to enjoying the neighborhood.
Red River College in Winnipeg, Manitoba reused the facades of historic buildings to create part of the exterior wall.
The Loveliest Town of All
In the loveliest town of all, where the houses were white and high and the elm trees were green and higher than the houses, where the front yards were wide and pleasant and the back yards were bushy and worth finding out about, where the streets sloped down to the stream and the stream flowed quietly under the bridge, where the lawns ended in orchards and the the orchards ended in fields and the fields ended in pastures and the pastures climbed the hill and disappeared over the top towards the wonderful wide sky, in this loveliest of all towns…
- E. B. White
Park & Ride Commuter Lot in Athens, GA. At intersection of Loop 10 and Lexington Hwy.
$2.6 Million. 10 Years in the making. Pervious Pavement. Bio-retention swales. Solar panels.
Only problem: No commuters. Yet?
New Town, St. Charles Missouri.
Kickstarter Project allows you to draw in 3D. I can think of many uses for land planners and urban designers.
