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Art and Design Combine to Create the iQ

SCION’s innovative, micro-premium auto, the iQ, brings the big ideas featured in... more

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What new trends do you see for Urban Mobility?

Scion’s iQ brings urban style, comfort and functionality to the auto-market.... more

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Urban Mobility 2011: SCION iQ

Concept vehicles like Terreform's Hug n' Kiss land car, Gordon Murray's... more

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Personal Rapid Transit vs. The Monorail

If you have ever been to Disney then you know about its famous monorail system. But... more

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Electric Scooters vs. Electric Bicycles

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Terreform and the urban housing revolution

Housing is the largest concern for architects in urban areas with continual population... more

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A Truce Between Project Residents and Homeowners

I have done all I can to offer the homeowners of Northeast Philadelphia, where the... more

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Terreform1 and Urban Sustainability

The team from Terreform1 suggests ways in which vehicles and urban homes can be... more

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In addition to my internship here with Sustainable Schmidt, I’ve been spending some time interning with San Mateo County government for their Energy Upgrade program. This statewide incentive program provides rebates for homeowners who want to increase the energy efficiency of their homes. This program is unique in that it helps you to “upgrade” the comfort and efficiency of the home as a whole – not just single products like PG&E’s rebates. Each county in the Bay Area has their respective branches to this program. Rebate amount goes from $1000-$4000, depending on how much you improve your efficiency by. My goal by the end of the summer is to convince my dad to retrofit our home with this program. With any luck, we’ll be able to combine them with other rebates and tax credits. If you’re looking for a comprehensive list of all the different rebates in your area, check out the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency.
https://energyupgradeca.org/overview

Ever really thought about what that tree in front of your house does for you? The Colorado Tree Coalition has written a comprehensive list of the Benefits of Trees in Urban Areas. I understood the obvious benefits of urban forests like carbon sequestration and reduced run-off, but had never considered how trees in neighborhoods would strengthen its community, or helps slow traffic.
http://www.coloradotrees.org/benefits.htm#10

I’m halfway through Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough & Michael Braungart. These two authors introduce an interesting concept for product life-cycle that draws inspiration from nature itself. Rather than creating products that create unusable waste and degrade the natural environment, a product design that encourages integration of its life with the rest its environment. For example, whereas conventional roofing degrades, overheats, and eventually has to be thrown away, green roofs covered in plants “maintain the roof at a stable temperature, providing free evaporative cooling in hot weather and insulation in cold weather, and shields it from the sun destructive rays, making it last longer.” William McDonough gave a good lecture on TED Talks of this design concept.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/william_mcdonough_on_cradle_to_cradle_design.html

See the full blog post here: http://www.sustainableschmidt.com/In addition to my internship here with Sustainable Schmidt, I’ve been spending... more

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The Liddonfielders: A Public Housing Diary - Part 9

Diary of a girl who lived in public housing... more

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Public Housing Boys in Vietnam

http://www.publichousingstories.com/ The Vietnam War divides a public housing family.... more

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Seattle Street Art, A Visual Time Capsule Beyond Graffiti

Aside from its rain and coffee, Seattle, Washington is known for many things... more

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Music Probe Uncovers Timeless Find

Article by Yolanda Evonye Jackson|Lord Hector Diono is said to be a long time music producer from Washington, D.C. who moved to Atlanta September 21, 1989 according to the online press we uncovered, his industry name was given to him by a radio personality from the syndicated radio station V- 103 in Atlanta Georgia named Sydney “Kenny Diamond” Woods, who obtained the idea from Hector’s neighborhood during visits to his shared residence with his brother Kevin L Chambers; it seems that the children of the of the south east Atlanta area who allegedly witnessed a fist fight the rapper was allegedly involved in are said to be the ones credited with actually branding the entertainer with the nickname “Hector” after the professional boxer Macho “Hector Camacho”. The most recent updates came this week from the Apple Corporation about the recording artist known as Lord Hector Diono, an international online music store release of his first single on the Island Def Jam digital music roster entitled “Jacob’s ladder” and a second release in the same week, a single entitled “Convicts”. Hector Diono stated in an online community network site that his next single will separate him from every rapper that has ever touched the microphone. Nobody knows exactly what that means, I know he’s getting it in, and I’ve had time to review his material, he’s nice, but this kind of talk in the hip hop community can raise a lot of egos and concerns about the artist’s angle here. Hector documented the name of the single “Why I Gangsta” and he stated online that it is a certified game changer, aimed at American churches and the mixed messages they send. The single will be released on the Island Def Jam label March 1 2011 despite the fact that even Hector, who produced and performed the record believes it's too far ahead of it's time and will take time to catch on, we’ll see, “I’ll be checking for you Lord Hector”. Article posted by Yolanda Evonye Jackson/Urban Chronicles Detroit, Michigan for Hoodwatch Media Atlanta,GA http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/why-i-gangsta-single/id423562438Article by Yolanda Evonye Jackson|Lord Hector Diono is said to be a long time music... more

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Photos of Japan Then and Now

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The Ruins of Detroit: A Sad Narrative of Urban Life in America

“The Ruins of Detroit” is a powerful and disturbing collection of photographs, which are the result of a five-year collaboration by the French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre. “The Ruins of Detroit” tells the city’s story in one starkly beautiful photograph after another, adding up to nothing less than an end-of-empire narrative. The abandoned factories, the eerily vacant schools, the rotting houses and gutted skyscrapers chronicled by Marchand and Meffre are the artefacts of Detroit’s astonishing rise as a global capital of capitalism and its even more extraordinary descent into ruin, a place where the boundaries between the American dream and the American nightmare, between prosperity and poverty, between the permanent and the ephemeral are powerfully and painfully visible. No place exemplifies both the creative and destructive forces of modernity more than Detroit, past and present.

In addition to these remarkable photographs, this piece presents a memorable slide show of additional images from the collection and a documentary short film. “Pure Detroit” is a short film by Ivan George with gorgeous cinematography, but it’s also one that confronts the viewer with dramatic images of the collapse and decay that rapid economic and social change can have upon urban life. The impact of the film has been described as somewhere between heaven, hell and quiet meditation. While “Pure Detroit” is a beautiful visual mood piece, it’s also incredibly sad. The film reveals so much about the rapid changes we’re encountering in our world right now, how the old things gets broken much faster than new things are put in their place. “Pure Detroit” serves as a powerful reminder of what the old things breaking down can be like for so many of us.

Again, this piece includes a number of striking high-resolution photographs, a memorable slide show and a documentary short film.

http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/the-ruins-of-detroit-a-sad-narrative-of-urban-life-in-america/“The Ruins of Detroit” is a powerful and disturbing collection of... more

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E.M.L.E. Questions 6

This game is only for those who are 18+ years old Rule 1: Be yourself Rule 2:... more

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Why Living In Cities Sucks

When you live in a city, it's easy to forget that we are surrounded by the... more

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Your Window Shattering: Underworld And The City At Night

Mat Colgate goes to see Underworld live and talks to Karl Hyde about the joys of being... more

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Civic Haze: The Ambiguity of Urban Life

“Civic Haze” is a photographic-essay by Maria Ines Manchego, a visual... more

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