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Feb. 07, 2014 / Gordon Price

Using Snow to Plan Traffic Calming 2: New York City

Further to the Darren Proulx post 0n how snow can show the desire lines of drivers, and essentially how much…
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Feb. 03, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Motordom Meme: Evidence in NYC

Interesting to see how the concept of Motordom – identified first by John Norton in “Fighting Traffic” – is getting…
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Jan. 20, 2014 / Gordon Price

Public Spaces: Are we more social – or just stuck to our screens?

The most famous analysis of how people use public spaces is “The Street Life Project” – William Whyte’s observations of…
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Jan. 17, 2014 / Gordon Price

Mapping Gentrification: Rent as a Share of Income

Gladys We wishes there were Canadian versions of these maps in Markers of Gentrification: Mapping Rent as a Share of Income. Kwelia…
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Jan. 16, 2014 / Gordon Price

Quote: Janette Sadik-Kahn on the importance of transit

The Globe and Mail interviews retiring NYC transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Kahn: New York transport czar an advocate for bikes, transit,…
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Jan. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

Most Beautiful City Skyline – Ever

Midtown Manhattan in 1933, from Central Park looking towards Fifth Avenue at 59th Street: . . Today? .…
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Jan. 13, 2014 / Gordon Price

Covered: If The New Yorker was Parisian

I’ve always been an admirer of The New Yorker cover art. So are French graphic artists Aurélie Pollet and Michael…
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Jan. 07, 2014 / Gordon Price

Wealth and Rails: Economic inequality, station by station

From Stephen Wilkinson: Greetings from the Polar Vortex! Also known as New York. Here is an interesting interactive piece in…
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Jan. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

Lecture: Reclaimed Garden Scapes of the World – featuring the High Line – Jan 17

RICK DARKE Part I:  The High Line Part II: Reclaimed Garden Scapes of the World Friday Evening, January 17, 2014…
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Jan. 03, 2014 / Gordon Price

Montage: New York Transformation

A great way to end the week: looking back at Streetfilms footage to see how much the streets and squares…
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Nov. 25, 2013 / Gordon Price

David Byrne: Gentrification in NYC

Frank Ducote drew our attention to this: David Byrne Starts Making Sense of NYC. Says Frank:  “A more complete and…
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Nov. 05, 2013 / Gordon Price

Bike-sharing: More proof of “Safety in Numbers” theory

This is a big deal: No Riders Killed in First 5 Months of New York City Bike-Share Program. Start with…
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Oct. 28, 2013 / Gordon Price

Mitosis in New York: The Williamsburg Divide

This piece in the New York Times describes how gentrifying neighbourhoods separate and rename themselves, using Brooklyn’s Williamsburg (map here)…
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Oct. 28, 2013 / Gordon Price

Department of “Ya Just Can’t Win” – Colour Me Blue

From Ken Ohrn: Author Delia Ephron writes in the New York Times’ Opinion pages about their bike-share system …  The…

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