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lessadjectivesmoreverbs: What If Manhattan Was Designed Like Paris? Interesting mostly because of how massive Manhattan is compared to central Paris. Imagine if those streets and boulevards covered this much space. (via Untapped New York)

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processingmatter: Number of Facebook check-ins per 100 acres in New York City (5 to 11 July 2011) by the Spatial Information Design Lab, Columbia University

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This is what inspired H&deM when designing the Miami parking lot.

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Troika’s proposal for Living City installation UNDERNEATH Heatherwick’s pavillon.

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explore-blog: How many people can Manhattan hold? The New York Times explores the capacity of the iconic island and the ongoing efforts to expand it.

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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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Every city requires this noisy, hectic and sometimes dirty zone. Only then the city as a whole, togehter with high street downtown and well communicated suburbs can be considered to be a healthy polis. Such system will generate ideas, attract all sorts of people and will evolve constantly. Here the density is the key.

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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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floresenelatico: Play and Rewind | Cliostraat Urban volleyball field. Siena, Italia + info

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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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