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Re-Democratizing the Third Place at Brightkite Blog

by natecooper | Apr 26, 2008 | architecture, cities, culture, digital media, internet

Just got my invite for brightkite.com a location based social network. I wasn’t super impressed about the network (its too small just yet) though the design looks nice and the idea promising. This little article about “the Third Place” in their blog,...

Neatorama » Blog Archive » The House(s) That Spite Built

by natecooper | Apr 25, 2008 | architecture, cities, culture

[link] Neatorama reports on dwellings built out of spite of their natural conditions, laws and or family disputes. Interesting to think about how we humans augment our environment not only out of necessity for shelter but also...

World Without Cars: The Public Transit Projects that Should Have Been

by natecooper | Apr 17, 2008 | architecture, art, cities, culture, san francisco

[link] What would Los Angeles look like with trolley cars? What about a canal instead of Market street in San Francisco?

MoCo Loco: ComplexCity

by natecooper | Apr 16, 2008 | cities, culture, technology

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Mexico City Metro – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

by natecooper | Apr 12, 2008 | architecture, cities, culture

I’ve been reading a bit on the Mexico City Subway on Wikipedia[link] Interestingly in addition to station names each station also has a logo assigned to it: “Each station is identified by a unique logo related to the name of the station or the area around...