No Google street view for West 44th St (and sometimes 45th St too), between 7th and 8th Aves, in Manhattan:
Viacom?
A new genre:
Street with a view.
Kaplan, “Hunting the Taliban in Las Vegas,” theatlantic.com (Sep ’06):
But the Predator, especially as it is improved, may also interfere with decision making. As one pilot told me: “No general will want to attack something without visual confirmation from a Predator. It’s the old story—by the time you have all the evidence, it’s too late [...]
Attributed to “Sam Fuller”:
(Ridiculousaurus)
AJC (Schwartz, “Drug Violence in Atlanta Tied to Several Cartels,” 31 July ’08): “Powerful Mexican cartels have assumed control of drug distribution networks throughout the United States, sparking worry from U.S. law enforcement and experts that they may export the same violent methods that have ravaged Mexico for years.” Kidnapping, for example. Vast tracts of [...]
Anamorphic parking garage signage
is the kind of thing that wins design awards
but shouldn’t—for several reasons:
Matthew Fuller and Usman Haque, with illustrations by David Cuesta:
This document proposes that another lesson can be learned for architecture from computing: the way in which software is made. Here, we want to concentrate on the current most significant mode of software development—Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)—steering clear of ubicomp fantasies that may [...]
The Telegraph (UK) reports that Philadelphia will start painting optical illusions of 3D objects onto streets “as part of a campaign against aggressive driving.”
Philly’s Chief traffic engineer says, “The driver sees this in the roadway, and they think that it’s some protrusion up out of the roadway, and not a perfectly flat surface. So they [...]
Director of the Coney Island Development Corporation resigns in an open letter:
If snooty Paris, of all places, can live with Euro Disney why can’t New York City reinvent a 21st century Coney Island the right way?
What was the last urban-planning project NYC did the right way?
(vanishing new york | gowanus lounge)
“Matching luggage” means overstuffed garbage full of someone’s life, and “residential units” means someone trying to live in a self-storage space—according to Fred Reger, auctioneer and ironist. This from an NYT story about self-storage sites auctioning off the property of people who’ve defaulted on their storage rental fees. “U-Store-It’s stock is up 33 percent this [...]