• Control Panel – a visual blog of control panels
• Renzo Piano’s studio designs “imaginary island” containing 102 of the architect’s projects
• Growing Caltrain into an 8-Lane Freeway
• What Is The Future Of Governors Island?
• Updated Development plan at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
• Amazon to develop Alexa-enabled prefab homes – Like Gryzzl but somehow more creepy
• Fare Whom The Bell Tolls: The end of the TfL Ticket Office?
• A Turf War Over the Next Generation of Wireless Internet
• Why This Cartoonist Keeps Pitching the New Yorker—Even After 100 Rejections

Here are the things I’ve been looking at this week. Past weekly Links 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

• Elizabeth Warren’s Ambitious Fix for America’s Housing Crisis
• Retail: You May Be Surprised to Hear That Restoration Hardware Is Doing Great
• Gerrymandered US congressional district jewelry
• Human-centered design isn’t just for the affluent
• One small change to New York’s intersections is saving pedestrians’ lives
• What YIMBYs Should Learn From New York’s Hasidic, Chinese, and Bangladeshi Enclaves
• Of Systems and Purposes: Emergent technology for the skeptical urbanist
• L.A. Metro may rename its rail lines
• TK TK

Here are the things I’ve been looking at this week. Weekly Links 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

• How Boston Got Its ‘T’ and Crumbling concrete, leaking roofs, and busted elevators: the state of the T
• How We Could Build a Moon Base Today
• How Will Police Solve Murders on Mars?
• Open House New York 2018
• Preserving the sounds of obsolete devices: Conserve the Sound
• Is Missing Middle Really Missing?
• The Divides Within, and Between, Urban and Rural America
• Why a ‘Memory Town’ Is Coming to Your Local Strip Mall
• Kelly Hoppen and Marcel Wanders talk about how designers can create thriving communities
• 3D Emoji Town in Pure CSS
• Ghost Plants: Reusing Huge Abandoned Sears Buildings Across Urban America
• Universal Basic Mobility

 

Here are the things I’ve been looking at this week. Weekly Links 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

• Color Leap – History’s Palettes
• Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours
• Artificial intelligence can estimate an area’s obesity levels by analyzing its buildings
• BIG’s New York City school for WeWork encourages interaction and play
• How Do We Know Recent Climate Changes Are Caused By Humans?
• Movies… in… Spaaaaaaace
• 20% of New York retail space is sitting vacant
• Must (Only) the Rich Have Their Trains?

Here are the things I’ve been looking at this week. Weekly Links 4, 3, 2, 1.

• Artificial intelligence can estimate an area’s obesity by analyzing its buildings
• The World’s Newest, Most Gloriously Designed Maps
• ATLAS-I was the codename for an all wood electromagnetic pulse generation and testing apparatus
• Why didn’t electricity immediately change manufacturing?
• In latest plan, the BQX is shorter, underfunded and over 10 years away 
  Maybe this isn’t worth the doing…
• The best London Commuter towns
• US military 3D prints concrete barracks on site
• Ad.Lib organ
  A mechanical requiem for those who take care of others.

• NYC Active Major Construction
• ‘Map Twins’ Bridge the Gap in a Segregated Chicago
• Sunset Park Nixed From de Blasio’s Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Fantasy
  This whole enterprise doesn’t feel like the best use of our time and money
• Are e-Scooters the Key to Getting Safe Bike Lanes?
• And please relax to: Yo-Yo Ma at the NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
• Picular, a color search engine. Here’s city, home, architecture
• Typeset in the Future, a book about the typography & design of science fiction movies
• Adam speaks, you listen: Four questions for the smart city
• TfL’s secret internal Tube map
• On the streetcars & lightrail of Budapest

• Conant St. Right of Way Model
• Toronto’s Transit Advice for New York: Give Streetcars Their Own Lanes
• Conant St. Right of Way Model
• Zaha Hadid Architects exhibit presents promise and peril of parametric design
• And something different: Building without Bias: An architectural language for the Post-Binary
  Test out the gender biases embedded within terms at the Building Without Bias online dictionary
• How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another
• Do We Need a New Theory and Name for “Bike Lanes”?
• Women’s pockets are inferior
• NYPL Instagram stories: Alice in Wonderland
• paper: Racial Disparities in Housing Politics: Evidence from Administrative Data. people attending and commenting at planning and zoning board meetings are overwhelmingly (95%!) white (compared to 80% of the voting-age population in our sample cities).

• How America uses it’s land
• I had forgotten about the (semi)-joke Brooklyn/Mission/London Integers _thing_ of yesteryear.
  London Integers gets a poster
• There’s Waldo is a robot that finds Waldo
• Investigative Update on the FIU-Sweetwater University City Bridge Collapse:
  Collapse of Pedestrian Bridge Under Construction Miami, Florida
• The Conflict of Interest That Is Killing Recycling
• Paris open-air urinals not popular among all French
• Sidewalk Labs unveils design for neighborhood in Toronto “future city”
• Transport barriers to employment in low-income neighbourhoods mapped

New York

• How NYC’s Failed 2012 Olympic Bid Shaped the City We Live in Today
• The lingering effects of NYC’s racist city planning
• Rezoning Gowanus now a consideration on de Blasio’s housing agenda
• Developers Bet Big on Brooklyn Office Demand

Public Policy

• Chicago installs “fitness tracker for the city” to improve infrastructure and residents’ health
• For Quick Housing Data, Hit Craigslist
• Let’s Break Up the Port Authority
• Mutual Ownership Defense Housing Division – WWII-era experimentation with mutual ownership housing (like co-ops) which was REALLY successful, even though only 8 were built
• Discrimination by Design

Transportation

• Amtrak threatens to cut Boston rail service
• The pros and cons of SEPTA’s King of Prussia Rail proposal
• The boundaries that divide our transit systems
• Pulsating Map of London’s Daily Tube Ridership