Love SpacingToronto’s Before/After photo series. (I had a similar idea involving vintage postcards of various cities…but when you snooze, you lose.)
Reminds me of other delightful old/new transitioning-spaces projects, like the charming Dear Photograph website, or Stewart Brand’s still-relevant book (and subsequent 6-part BBC television series!! Who knew?), How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built.
(dear photograph)
(infographic inspired by How Buildings Learn)
Less urban-y, but also cool:
- Irina Werning’s Back to the Future Project (but I’ve already told you about this one)
- Young me/Now me
Stories of Old Vancouver Neighbourhoods
Amazing interactive website about a diverse little local neighbourhood. Click on a building pictured on the beautifully-designed site, and you’ll get poignant (really!) audio stories and documentary-style photos about its inhabitants.
It feels like a sort of a super-modern, and more human-centred, take on Stan Douglas’ Every Building on 100 West Hastings Street.
Okay, Internet, I stand corrected — a brief Google search tells me that this website by David Look is the super-modern take on the Stan Douglas piece: it’s called “Every Building on 100 block of West Hastings Street (in Google StreetView): after Stan Douglas”.
Now in Vancouver flavour! Portland is hanging out in my living room, and Toronto is still awaiting a frame (I really do need that IKEA trip, pronto) — I feel like I should get this one, out of fairness. Too nerdy for the office, you think?
The blue print is a winner — seems the most Van-like to me. Though truthfully it’s not the most interesting of the designs. Toronto comes out much nicer. But if you’re not stuck on hometown (or current-town, or nice-town-to-visit) pride, I’d go with Brooklyn.
Berliner Jan Vormann’s magical Dispatchwork series, which spans cities across the globe.
Here’s another, across from Penn Station in NYC:
(via randomspecific)
They unveiled a new neon sign for Chinatown last night —
One step closer to the glory days: http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/planning/chinatown/program/neon.htm
Urban planner with a penchant for social policy, public engagement, infographics, illustration, and zee artz. This is a small collection of notes-to-self.
