• Yes, I would love to live in a Soccer Ball-Shaped House
• Boullée in North Dakota
• Bryan Boyer loves to integrate counterfeit money with his Thesis
• Does Obama have an Appalachian problem? Interesting that 65% was the cutoff margin.
• Barcelona begins importing water
• Siteless: 1001 Building Forms
• Nouvel Tower Gets the Nod Of City’s Landmarks Panel

• Find out how walkable your neighborhood: Walk Score
• A new relationship to e-money
• More Hugh Ferriss photos
• The Machinic Landscape of Tulips
• The Anti-Architecture of H.P. Lovecraft
• The Need for a Social Mapping
• Las Vegas as the new Urban Prototype? (not New York, Paris, or London?)

• Deindustrialization Sorting
• Paulville: [its stated goal is to] establish gated communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters and or people that live by the ideals of freedom and liberty – and they are going to build in West Texas
• Interview with Matthew Dent designer of the new Coinage of the United Kingdom
• Why do New Yorkers seem rude? A noted critic and essayist has a few ideas (we aren’t rude; we are busy and don’t take anyone’s BS)
• Port Authority to develop Moynihan Station
• 125th Street Harlem Zoning Proposal
• May Day: Istanbul

• The history of New York City in video games
• Gehry’s Santa Monica Place to be Demolished
• FLARE turns the building facade into a penetrable kinetic membrane
• The number of NYC residential permits issued in the city dropped 46% to 558 from 1,038
• Victorian Land Use lead to the agglomeration economies required for the Industrial Revolution say Nick Crafts and Tim Leunig
• Google Transit Gets Smarter and Smarter
• Lot 40s workwear pants buttons

• On Regionalism, in this corner Krugman: Mega skepticism; in that corner Florida: Paul Krugman is a mega skeptic
• Monocle: design notes
• West Side Redevelopment Plans in Disarray
• Youngstown: The incredible shrinking city
• In design, the temporary is so contemporary
• Lego City Of The Future, By Norman Mailer & Friends
• Empire: a reconstruction

• On the G Train: At Last, Some Attention for Subway Line Less Traveled
• Andrew Maynard’s Suburb-Eating Robots
• The New York Canon: Books
• Pop Matters
• Comfy IKEA Train Makes Me Want to Move to the Subway
• Blowing Up (a Model of) Freedom Tower
• The Architecture of Advertising

• The Pentagon, Parking & Land Use
• Pentagram to redesign The Atlantic monthly – Magic 8-Ball says, “Future Unknown”
• Helsinki maps all of its trains
• Visualizations of IP and phone traffic from New York
• Moynihan Station Area Might Look Like This (giant photo) – or not
• Urban noise heirarchy
• A Texas Designer’s Map of the World

• Smart Mobility – Rethinking the Paris Bus Line
• Six Steps to Speeding up Trains in the U.S. – most of these points the FRA is actually working on
• Urban Bike Sharing System Coming to London
• Life Between Buildings
• On transportation as a national campaign issue: The Lightness of Rail & Followup
• As it is storming outside, I recalled Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field, which foolishly prevents visitors from taking photos of the work because of copyright
• I’m not artistically interested in Annie Leibovitz’s work, but this video of Annie Leibovitz and the Queen is very interesting
• Via Draplin: Apollo Missions logos, Gemini Missions logos, STS Missions logos

• Nike created a shoe made from Manufacturing Waste called the Trash Talk
• The New $5 Bill
• Interactive Map: Busiest Routes of the big 5 US Airlines
• The Secret of Our Success (I’ll continue to link to Ryan everyday as long as he keeps writing excellent articles; be prepared for continual links to his site.)
• On boutique outdoor clothing chain Nau: Hey, Big Schlepper
• Richard Florida: The Sex Pistols and Economic Development

• On the Long Duration Exposure Facility: Long Duration Love Affair, You see, every inch of its outside surface was covered with Science.
• The disappearance of grocery stores in New York City
• Metro Fantasy Map Porn & Metro Fantasy Map Porn Part 2
• Mixed-Use Infrastructure
• Suburban Slums
• Hyperlocalizing Hydrology in the Post-Industrial Urban Landscape
• Aerial Geometry: 5 circular communities from the sky
• Situated Technologies Pamphlets 1: Urban Computing and its Discontents via AG (which you should read Shielding, undistraction and conviviality, and my central dogma now. Go. Read.)
• Strange Maps: South of No North: Country Music’s Favourite States