Major U.S. cities have gone to great lengths to get guns off their streets, whether through restrictive carry laws, police tactics, lobbying efforts, or all three. At gun buybacks from Boston to the Bay, residents can trade in firearms for cash.
A new organization out of Houston aims to do the opposite: arm entire urban neighborhoods, for free.
Read more on The Atlantic Cities (Henry Grabar, May 07 2013)
The geography of the Internet is on the verge of a historic growth spurt, and cities will be presiding over some of its largest new territories. Dozens of municipal governments, from Durban to Taipei, have claimed corresponding top level domains (TLDs) — even the wordy ones like .amsterdam and .helsinki — in the hopes that a domain will soon become as important to the global city brand in 2020 as a website was in 2000.
Read the full article on The Atlantic Cities (Henry Grabar, May 02, 2013):
Taste is socially make, it’s not just a matter of you -as an individual- like to eat, or like to read, or like to listen to (…).
When a lot of people move into a neighborhood, they form a market for a lattes… they tend to create an atmosphere, a very visible and tangible atmosphere on the street…
Yvonne Shields, Sous-Chef NYCHA Resident: Highbridge Gardens (Bronx) Credit: City Limits
By number, it’s a city – a large one. As of this past January, 403,736 people live in 2,596 apartment buildings owned and run by the New York City Housing Authority. That population is bigger than Miami, Oakland and Tulsa.
NYCHA buildings do not comprise a city of course. But their people, history, importance and problems are no less critical and complicated.
See this amazing photo essay published on-line by City Limits:
Reblogged from Notes From Dystopia:
“To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of an appropriation. The moving about that the city mutliplies and concentrates makes the city itself an immense social experience of lacking a place — an experience that is, to be sure, broken up into countless tiny deportations (displacements and walks), compensated for by the relationships and intersections of these exoduses that intertwine and create an urban fabric, and placed under the sign of what ought to be, ultimately, the place but is only a name, the City…a universe of rented spaces haunted by a nowhere or by dreamed-of places.”
― Michel de Certeau “The Practice of Everyday Life”
Photo by John Fraissinet
“New Yorkers assume that we live in the most expensive city in the country, and cost-of-living indexes tend to back up that assertion. But those measures are built around the typical American’s shopping habits, which don’t really apply to the typical New Yorker – especially not college-educated New Yorkers with annual household incomes in the top income quintile, or around $100,000. ”
[New York Times, 4/23]
See a piece in the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera about my last workshop in the Milan’s Chinatown
Rainbow on Gowanus after Sandy
Source: https://twitter.com/ConorMcDonough/status/263269919016226816/photo/1/large
Lidia K.C. Manzo 