Ogilvy France (via Useful Billboards? Advertisements Extend Into Urban Space | WebUrbanist)

Building down not up in Mexico City where developments are limited to ten stories. (via Earthscraper: Inverted Pyramid Spans 1000 Vertical Feet | WebUrbanist)

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If you like WalkScore, you’re going to find Walkonomics useful. It takes how walkable your neighborhood is to the next level by including helpful statistics such as safety, cleanliness, sidewalk width, and some subjective criteria such as whether it is relaxing or fun.

(via A New Site Calculates Your Neighborhood’s Walkability | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation)

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architectureofdoom:

mpdrolet:

Untitled (HND 04-05-11), 2011  

Christoph Engel

Haneda airport, Tokyo

(via humanscalecities)

Boston BikeShare Data Animation (Hubway) (by Chris Whong)

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secretrepublic:

Can we say it? 2005 was peak car in America.

(via humanscalecities)

Basement Shops (via Shops Pop Up Around Basement Windows in Urban Sofia | WebUrbanist)

"You know in 1993 we weren’t the bicycling capital of America. Seventeen years later, for the equivalent cost of a single mile of freeway, we have a bike infrastructure."

Sam Adams, Mayor of Portland, Oregon; where ~8% of commuters cycle to work. (via tasfromtas)

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Hurricane Sandy devastation visualized on Foursquare (via New Foursquare graphic tells the story of Sandy’s devastation of Lower Manhattan)

Smart Street Lights - Intellistreets (via Illuminating Inventions: 10 Twists to Simple Street Lights | WebUrbanist)