Art intervention by Juliana Santacruz Herrera in the cracks of Paris sidewalks. A beautifully deconstructed ‘yarn bomb”.
(via Trendland)
Great alley! Nice urban intervention in South Hill, East Van by Instant Coffee (amongst other things, the Vancouver chapter brought us the odd glossy sandwich boards and faux-yarn-bombed buses for the Main Street transit redesign a few years back).
(via OtherSights)
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”.
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Pollution-detecting clothing, from a Manhattan design duo. The colours on the design change when exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide. (via GOOD)
Right now, these seem like a combo of cute and depressing — and not just because they channel the spirit of Hypercolour tshirts. They’re just not useful enough now, except to let you know that you’re standing beside traffic. Newsflash.
Maybe if they could calibrate the shirts more finely, it could be a good warning system for bikers and pedestrians? If, say, you’re have doubts about whether or not you need to put on your Respro Sportsta Mask while biking through traffic, maybe this could give you a clue.
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A few of the really lovely and cheeky illustrations from Paris vs New York: a tally of two cities.
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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.
Smitherman vs Ford, by ward. (via Torontoist and Lex)
Also some more detailed by-ward interactive maps by Patrick Cain, for The Toronto Star.
BlogTO maps the municipal election results since 1997.
Florian Pucher’s Farmland rugs — patterned by continent. !!! That’s Africa there…
U! S! A!
…Europe.
(Cows and other farm animals not included.)
via hindsvik
“Interactive” map of commuter mode share in Toronto, by census tract (Toronto Star, October 2009).
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.
