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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

edward glaeser on the daily show

edward Glaeser loves him some city. Check it out.

Posted by at 12:12 PM in control, culture, Current Affairs, landscape/land use, literature, politicks, power, social, Television, trends, urbanism | | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

mta.me

Mta.me

via Pireeni, this lovely map tracking trains in New York's subway system as they leave and course through the city. As each line crosses another, it "plucks" it like a string, and you hear a thoughtfully chaotic music. Subway art. Enjoy.

Posted by at 11:12 PM in art, beauty, cartography, Music, transportation, urbanism | | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

  • The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.
    -- George Orwell

    Geography and space are always gendered, always raced, always economical and always sexual. The textures that bind them together are daily re-written through a word, a gaze, a gesture.
    -- Irit Rogoff

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