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Feb. 25, 2015 / Gordon Price

Bikes and Brainwaves in NYC

From Wired: The setup is simple: An off-the-shelf EEG brainwave sensor made by NeuroSky is built into a standard helmet.…
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Feb. 11, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Hard Work of Idealism: Building aggressively and densely and affordably

An editorial from the New York Times: . Can New York Be Affordable Again? . The New York of the…
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Feb. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

Wealth, Real Estate and New York – The Series

This is what puts the “New York” in the New York Times: a spectacularly researched and gripping story of not…
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Jan. 28, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Price of Success: Crowding of Times Square

From the ‘Be careful what you wish for’ file – in the New York Times:  . Times Square’s Crushing Success…
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Jan. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Lights of Manhattan from 7,500 Feet

Even in the age of Google Earth and other sites that offer detailed aerial imagery, there’s still this – from…
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Jan. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Greatest Act of Civic Vandalism in the 20th Century

An often-covered story, but with some new insights by Michael Beschloss in the New York Times – and a rarely…
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Jan. 20, 2015 / Gordon Price

Vacant Property: What do other places do?

Tim Pawsey wanted to make sure PT saw this – from BC Business: In the past two years, Israel, the…
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Jan. 14, 2015 / Gordon Price

Bus (and Other) Priorities in Lower Manhattan

Found on Streetview.  It just struck me as some kind of statement: .…
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Jan. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

Paris and New York – a Visual Comparison in a New Context

When I first came across this, I thought that as an ad it was clever and gorgeous.  Today, in context,…
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Jan. 05, 2015 / Gordon Price

Urbanist Headline of the Year

From NextCity: We Found Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses’ Love Child .  . This is Sara D. Roosevelt Park, a…
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Dec. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

Taylor’s ‘Analysis’: Manhattan without transit

Over at ‘Analysis,’ Matt Taylor has produced another powerful graphic: How would things be different if Manhattan was not served…
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Dec. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

A tree grows in Brooklyn – and all over New York

A green story of New York, from the Times: . Believe it or not, the city streets are greener than…
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Nov. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

NYC: Slowing Down to Vision Zero

Doug Clarke sends us the latest from New York Today: Taking It Slow It’s the last day to fearlessly go 30…
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Nov. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Loss of the Old New York of the Nineties – the 1990s

Reliably, every decade or so, some writer bemoans the loss of their city – the shops, the bars, the old…

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