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Apartment No. 1 by AbCT Amy Frearson, dezeen.com This apartment block in the Iranian town of Mahallat was constructed using the otherwise useless offcuts from local stone cutting businesses.
Where Is the Bottom? Americans Continue to Drive Less and Less Angie Schmitt, streetsblog.org Population adjusted miles driven by Americans hit a new low in February. It’s been nearly seven years since the peak in miles driven by Americans in 2005, and the downward trend shows no signs of slowing. Image: dshort.comThe downward slide…
How the Decline of the Traditional Workplace Is Changing Our Cities Emily Badger, theatlanticcities.com Tech­nol­o­gy has blurred the walls of the work­place in at least two dra­mat­ic ways. Peo­ple who once worked inside the clear con­fines of a cubi­cle, inside an office, with­in an office tower in a com­mer­cial dis­trict, can now work from near­…
Harvard: A skyline view over @Harvard …twitter.com
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Outrage as Brazil cyclist loses arm

bbc.co.uk

A road collision in Brazil causes outrage after police say a motorist drove off with a cyclist’s severed arm attached to his vehicle.

Can Cargo Bike Delivery Flourish in NYC? Stephen Miller, streetsblog.org In a city as dense as New York, with gridlocked streets and need-it-now demands, bicycle delivery serves a vital role. The city keeps its stomach full with pedal-powered food delivery, while couriers, whose numbers have dwindled as communications…
Timeline Photos | Facebookfacebook.com Black Pearl: part of a pro­gram to revi­tal­ize dis­ad­van­taged neigh­bour­hoods in Rot­ter­dam.See this stun­ning res­i­dence http://ilikear.ch/11mcPm1
America Has Hit “Peak Jobs” Jon Evans, techcrunch.com “The mid­dle class is being hol­lowed out,” says James Altuch­er. “Econ­o­mists are shift­ing their atten­tion toward a […] cri­sis in the Unit­ed States: the sig­nif­i­cant increase in income inequality,” reports the New York Times.Th…

How urban design affects our health | The Globe and Mail

smartercities:

As a behavioural psychologist, James Sallis started out trying to understand how to motivate people to become more physically active. But, like many of his colleagues, he soon found that whatever worked only worked a little, on a few people, for a short time. Soon, Dr. Sallis came to see the modern urban environment as a big part of the problem. 

Dr. Sallis says cities should prioritize pedestrians, bicyclists.

This week, Dr. Sallis also becomes the latest winner of the Bloomberg Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health, a $50,000 award administered by McGill University. On his way to receiving the prize Dr. Sallis stopped by Toronto’s Metro Hall to share his ideas and findings with city officials and to talk about the significance of place with The Globe and Mail.

annstreetstudio: The gorgeous views from our day in Florence…
emergentfutures: Where to be born or how to live? Over at our long form blog I have commented on the graphic and the research that went into the calculations. I think geography will be far less important in the future than this sort of work implies  read more….

Winner of adAPT NYC Competition to Develop Innovative Micro-Unit Apartment Housing

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Today, the winner of the adAPT NYC Competition was announced, which was a development team composed of Monadnock Development LLC, Actors Fund Housing Development Corporation and nARCHITECTS.

The team was chosen through a competitive Request for Proposals to design, construct and operate…

Instagram Photos | Facebookfacebook.com Urban regen­er­a­tion in #Tallin #Estonia, the Roter­mann Quar­ter, build­ing by HGA #architecture #archdaily #instagood #iphonesia #buildings — with