Tag: Urban Life - Page 12
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The NYC Nomad: Man Couchsurfs Different Neighborhoods, While Working Full-Time
New Yorker Ed Casabian has embarked on an interesting social experiment of sorts. After a rough breakup with a longtime girlfriend in 2010, Casabian realized that he was happiest when travelling -- so he decided to travel all over,
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Artist Transforms Stuffy Old Lace Into Fantastic Street Art (Photos)
If you associate hoodie-concealed men sporting spray cans with street art, think again. Think crocheted bicycles, yarn bombing and random acts of planting. To be sure, traditional urban art is dominated by men. But the last
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A Green Roof is Evolving at the Museum of London
As part of the Museum of London's massive refurbishment, they have begun to install an ambitious green roof on the top of the building. This will be a long-term research and demonstration project, rather than the sexy public spaces that
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MIT Student Remaps Paris Based on Travel Time & Carbon Footprint
I've traveled through Paris via bicycle, public transportation and even the occasional car. So when I saw Xiaoji Chen's original maps of the city, I didn't see them as distorted- they made perfect sense. Chen's maps
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New Study Shows Humans Are "Hard-Wired" For Density
Image credit Tim De Chant David Owen and Edward Glaeser tell us that density is a good thing, and that the closer together people live, the less energy they use per capita. Richard Florida tells us that it makes us more creative. Now Tim de Chant tells
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Plantbombing: Colorful Yarn-Wrapped Plants Soften Up The City
Photos: Derek Powazek Yarnbombing -- or the cozying up of the urban landscape with random acts of gorgeous knitting -- has already been seen popping up in a number of cities. Now San Francisco-based urban knitter and guerilla gardeners Heather Powazek
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Bike-Powered Mobile Library Brings Books To Portland's Homeless
For most of us, easy access to books and libraries is something we take for granted. For the homeless though, it can be difficult to gain access to reading material in a library, much less signing up for a library card to take
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'Urban Rangers' Lead Nature Hikes into Wilds of LA
With their crisp khaki shirts and drab green trousers, topped with the familiar Stetson hat, they would look at home in any national park, leading nature walks and offering kindly but serious
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British Urbanists On The London Riots
The British publication The Architects Journal asked some of the most prominent architectural thinkers for their comments on why Britain was burning. (and they even dropped their paywall so we could see it.) Some interesting
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Urban Truck Farms Take Local Food to a New Level
I saw the truck as we entered the Old South Pearl Street farmer's market on Sunday, but what I thought was an awesome old truck selling greens out of the back was even better—it was growing them. Lined with dirt, the bed
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Pocket Gardens Sprout on Paris's Anti-Parking Posts
Necessary as they are to keep cars from blocking the sidewalk, anti-parking posts, or bollards, can be an ugly sight in a city. Parisian artist Paule Kingleur has commandeered some of the
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Fun With Subway Commuting: Riders Zip Down Playground Slide to Enter Dutch Metro Station (Video)
Let's face it: Even on the nicest, newest subway or bus, commuting is a bit of a grind. One metro station in the Netherlands, though, has sought to liven up the experience -- by installing a slide that riders can zip down instead of taking the stairs.
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Keep Cool With Culture, Not Contraptions
I have been doing some over-the-phone consulting on Graham Hill's Lifeedited project, and the subject of air conditioning is on the table. I asked if the apartment he is renovating was going to be air
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Allison Arieff on Prefab, Going Local, and Why the Suburbs Aren't So Bad (Podcast)
One can't spend years as the editor in chief of Dwell magazine and not be something of a sage on sustainable design. What's more, Allison Arieff literally wrote the book on prefab architecture and now shares her explorations in the pages of the New York
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At NYC's Density, the World's Population Could Live in Texas
It turns out that if you wanted every person in the world to move to Texas, finding room for everyone wouldn't be your biggest problem. A series of maps produced by denisty blog Per Square Mile shows
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City-Dwellers Blow Their Green Cred on Energy-Hogging 'Compensatory' Holidays, Research Says
Ouch. This one hits a bit close to home: According to a recent study by two Norwegian researchers, people who live environmentally friendly day-to-day lives commuting by public transportation and residing
