May 2012
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What The Festival - New Electronic Music Fest in...
There’s a new electronic music fest starting this summer in White River Canyon, Oregon. The line-up includes Gold Panda, Ghostland Observatory, and Bonobo. Oh, and it’s more affordable than Sasquatch.
Photo: Gold Panda cover, Pitchfork.com
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30 Minutes on Mass Transit in 20 World Cities -... →
How far can you get in 30 minutes on mass transit? This collection of maps from 20 cities shows you.
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Subdivisions go urban as housing market changes -... →
“Why are the giants of the building industry, the creators for decades of massive communities of cookie-cutter homes, cul-de-sacs and McMansions in far-flung suburbs, doing an about-face? Why are they suddenly building smaller neighborhoods in and close to cities on land more likely to be near a train station than a pig farm?”
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To Love Somebody
Settling down is a big commitment, especially for gay men. You could say that it’s easy for us to not be expected to do it - that history has written it that way, but that’s not the real story.
The truth is that a public, true display of commitment has not been obtainable due to the law; due to the norm; due to others.
While some gay men even have a distaste for settling down,...
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Better Than An Igloo: Affordable, Efficient Homes... →
Image: Living Building Challenge
“The Living Aleutian Home Design Competition, sponsored by the Aleutian Housing Authority, challenged designers to build cost-effective, practical, replicable homes for Atka, Alaska (a village on the islands) that meets all of the standards of the Living Building Challenge 2.0.—an incredibly rigorous green building certification that requires...
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April 2012
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America's Best Cities for Transit, According to... →
Flickr: Future Metropolis
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The Global Economic Dominance of U.S. Cities - via... →
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Atlantic Cities: Which Cities Tend to Be the... →
“Twelve large metros – including New York, (2.3 tons per person), L.A. (1.8 tons), San Diego (1.9 tons), Phoenix (1.9 tons), Washington, D.C. (2.3 tons), Miami (2.2 tons) and Seattle (2.2 tons) – rank among the 50 lowest emitting metros.”
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America’s Top 10 Cities for Hipsters →
“T + L readers scored 35 urban centers on such hipster-friendly amenities as live music, coffeehouses, independent boutiques, thrift stores and flea markets, and on residents’ hipsterish traits, such as tech-savvy and the propensity to microbrew.”
March 2012
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Top US Cities by Optimism →
February 2012
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5 Big Ideas For A New Economy
Fast Company’s ideas behind what will fuel a new economy. The takeaway - it’s all about the individual, empowering entrepreneurship and improving quality of life.
Read: 5 Big Ideas for a New Economy via Fast Company
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Amazing Places To Experience Around the Globe...
The Cool Hunter’s list of extraordinary places around the globe. Where would you go? Find the whole list on The Cool Hunter.
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January 2012
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A Colorful Walk in the Snow on Beacon Hill
A tour of my neighborhood, Beacon Hill, in the snow.
Pacific Medical Center - The old Amazon and new Getty Images HQ
Art at Dr Jose Rizal Park
Beacon Hill Baptist
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The Top 10 Smart Cities On The Planet →
Crunching a list of variables about innovation and sustainability, Fast Company ranked the smartest cities on the planet. Vienna, Toronto and Paris take the cake.
PHOTO: SUDAR
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Greenwashing vs. Real Responsibility →
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The 45 Places to Go in 2012
From Brazil to Vienna to Space - the New York Times has provided an inspiring list of places to visit this year. My top pick from the list is Paraty, Brazil.
Check out the full list of NYT’s “45 Places to Go in 2012.”
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Art after Tragedy - Visual Histories from the...
What is it that a people are to do with the ruins of a past life? In the post-quake reconstruction of Haiti, several artists are creating a visual history from the rubble. In this collection of slides, you’ll find the work of Port-au-Prince artist Jean Herard Celeur.
Heavily inspired by vodou imagery, his work captures the fresh patina from the aftermath on modern materials.
This art...
December 2011
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American Psychos - Vice does designer shoot at...
Designer boys against Occupy Wall Street backdrop. See more at Vice.
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Why cities are the best cure for our planet’s...
In the 20th century American cities were redesigned around cars—wonderful, liberating machines that also make city air unbreathable and carry suburbs beyond the horizon. Car-centered sprawl gobbles farmland, energy, and other resources. These days, planners in the U.S. want to repopulate downtowns and densify suburbs, by building walkable town centers, for instance, in the parking lots of failed...
November 2011
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With an eye to the future, Shanghai dismantles its... →
October 2011
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Photos: Getting Back To Nature
Beautiful images of nature via The Cool Hunter (UK)
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Riding out of a recession: Bicycle commuters can... →
We know Portland’s 324 miles of bikeways contribute to a great quality of life and that the city’s position as the U.S. leader in bike commuters per capita is a boon for public health and traffic congestion. But a new report on one of the world’s leading bike commuting cities shows that the same trails and lanes created for enjoyment create significant employment, too.
September 2011
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Learn from Portland's "Greenway Gurus" via Great...
Portland is undergoing a renaissance in community bicycling and livable streets.
In the span of just five short years, Portland will have transformed itself into a city where 80% of residents live within a half-mile of a “Neighborhood Greenway” — a special family-friendly street where it’s common to see families enjoying a bicycle ride together, kids walking to school or...
Seattle Design Festival
From now until the 25th of September, the first-ever Seattle Design Festival will showcase the latest in design from this technocratic metropolis in the northern reaches of the Pacific.