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» Pop-Up City: Archigram's Vision Is Becoming a Reality

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gh0sttowns: North Brother Island, New York. This abandoned 20-acre island sits amazingly close to the bustling center of New York City yet is completely unused. It was home to a hospital in the 19th Century, then housed veterans after World War II before becoming one of the first drug treatment centers for teens in the 1950s. Corruption and failure caused the facility to close and the island has since been off limits to the public, though some urban explorers have made their way onto it anyway. The island was also the site of an infamous shipwreck in 1904 in which over 1,000 people drowned or burned to death.

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Math, Computation, Beauty and the Construction of New Realities. Olafur Eliasson.

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redeyednblue: If you, like me, are a big sustainability geek, check out this new map just released by the Modi Research Group at Columbia, showing NYC’s annual energy consumption rate in kilowatt hours (k Wh) per square meter. You can even zoom in and check out your block and your approximate building (way to go, Prospect Park South)! 

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Does tweeting influence modern cartography and town planning?

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amanda-lwin: what cities could we build within London? (metro systems are to scale. thanks to fakeisthenewreal)

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soundthat: shanghai by harry kaufmann

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laiika: Illustration of the Kowloon walled city. Click to see the large size and then zoom; it’s really detailed.  I love how they included the people living in it on the map. 

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mightbewhite: artspotting: magnificentruin: yamswool:Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek

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Ordos 100 by Ai Wei Wei and army of emerging architects.