More Regent Street maps, this time from Greenwood’s Map of London 1827.

• Figuring It Out: OSF, LF, and TF Explained
• University of Michigan Museum of Art Expansion
• TED Talks: James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia
• Starbucks Writ Large
• Greenwood’s Map of London 1827
• Architecture and the Media

• Prosthetic Gardens
• 5 Urban Design Proposals for 3D City Farms: Sustainable, Ecological and Agricultural Skyscrapers
• Inflatable Street Sculptures by Joshua Allen Harris
• Extreme Green Guerrillas
• The new engineering: a discussion with Arup’s Tristram Carfrae
• Forgotten Architects
• Blogedanken Public Pol – check it out (seriously)

Water Pump in Broadwick Street, originally uploaded by adambowie

Well, really facilitated killing thousands of Londoners with Cholera contaminated water. See, I’m reading The ghost Map by Steven Johnson, which I will have a full review shortly.

• The mathematics of preservation and the future of urban ruins
• Richard Florida’s map of where the single people are
• Stadium opens without parking, world doesn’t end
• Congestion Pricing Plan Bottled Up in Albany – why Albany has jurisdiction over our daily lives, is beyond me
• Subway Seat Hog Subset Man-sitters, Beware!
• Now even banks are abandoning homes: Lender-Abandoned, Non-REO Foreclosures
• New Royal Mint designs revealed
• Apartments by Yuji Nakae, Akiyoshi Takagi and Hirofumi Ohno for motorcycle fans
• New WTC PATH Entrance Ready for Your Morning Commute

Flight Attendant Hair Bubble

Braniff International Advertisement

Pucci’s 1966 Braniff Outfits

Check out the Braniff Pages, which illustrate that good design (and sex) can sell just about anything.

Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King #2, originally uploaded by marklea

Located in liverpool UK and locally known as Paddy’s Wigwam. See more Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King photos and Sir Frederick Gibberd photos.

(l to r) Chocolat à l’eauTrust, Fund Girl

Elisabeth Lecourt’s Les Robes Géographiques are maps assembled and cut into fashionable clothing. As a cartographer depicts maps to understand the world we live in, I force the maps to take the shapes of clothing, representing the wearer’s habitat and identity, forming an intimate connection with the wearer, Lecourt told Soma Magazine. Check out all of the Les Robes Géographiques and her excellent portfolio.

Call for Submissions Magazine on Urbanism #9 (MONU):

We invite daring concepts, mind-stretching speculations and ground-breaking new strategies about the topic “Exotic Urbanism” for our next issue of MONU. Submissions may be essays, photography, art projects or design concepts that trigger the term “exotic” in the urban context.

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Time Lapse Traffic, originally uploaded by splorp

Council Approves Congestion Pricing Measure on 30-20 Vote:

Shortly before 7:30 p.m., the New York City Council approved a measure urging state lawmakers to vote in favor of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s congestion pricing proposal. The vote was 30 to 20, with one member absent. Mayor Bloomberg immediately scheduled a news conference for later this evening with the Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, to celebrate the passing of his plan, which has left city and state lawmakers sharply divided.
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The congestion pricing plan, as approved by a 17-member state commission that voted at the end of January, would charge drivers with an E-ZPass $8 a day to enter Manhattan below 60th Street on weekdays from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Those drivers would also receive a credit for bridge or tunnel tolls they paid on the same day. Drivers without an E-ZPass would pay $9 and would not receive credit for tolls.