May 2012
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April 2012
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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the...
– John F. Kennedy (via urbnist)
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Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the...
– Bill Kraus (via urbnist)
March 2012
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The city is a living thing. It breathes. It keeps the beat. It has trouble...
– Hugo Hamilton (via pdsmith)
「城市是生物,會呼吸、會保持跳動,晚上也睡不好,擁有人類能量、人類特質、人類弱點,他的心思裡滿是特別邏輯、滿是街頭印象、滿是美好與無家可歸的夢境,縱然塗鴉也是在尋求歸屬感。」
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I don’t think all of the world’s challenges are in cities, but I think if you...
– The Thinking City (via shriyashriyashriya)
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CITY BREATHS: Definition of a City #2 →
citybreaths:
Ghangzhou - Small Alleys Near Shamian Island ©Beschty “A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the…
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kittenhart:
Worked 6+ hours in the lab today on my paper animation…only halfway done. One of the scenes we did of Hong Kong is so cool I’m gonna post it before we finish. This is made entirely out of paper (standing up in layers, not downshot) and was tedious as hell. So much fun though!!! I love my experimental animation class man
February 2012
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urbancityzen:
The Street Aesthetic of Berlin, by Christian Andersen - the second of his visualisations capturing the aesthetics and “urban vibe” of cities.
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Saint-Petersburg (by an_ef)
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January 2012
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colin-drumwright:
TimeLapse Barcelona
by Loyam
My old home
December 2011
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citybreaths:
SAIGON’S (DIS)ORDER
Awesome video by Rob Whitworth, which is a beautiful timelapse capturing the ordered chaos in Ho Chi Minh City.
Watching this video brings Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis to mind:
“In order to understand the city, and its ceaseless contrapuntal rhythms, one must situate oneself simultaneously inside and outside of it.”
This is what Lefebvre wrote, sitting...