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Adam Harrison Levy, "Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs," from Design Observer (Nov. 10, 2008)
The story of a mysterious cache of photographs taken of Hiroshima after the detonation of the atomic bomb, which resurfaced in Massachusetts decades later. Some remarkable images. Annot...
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http://www.designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=38841
Rhode Island Web directory, Rhode Island Information and Resource
Rhode Island online directory contains Rhode Island resource such as business, art, humanity, computer, networking, education, health, insurance, news, media, recreation, sport, science,...
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http://www.greatrhodeisland.com
New Jersey State Directory, NJ City Guide, US
New Jersey directory provides interesting links in New Jersey such as business, shopping, services, travel, transportation, computer & networking, real estate, education, insurance, socie...
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http://www.greatnewjersey.com
Nevada State Directory, Nevada Business & Society, Nevada Travel Guide, Nevada Real Estate
GreatNevada.com is a Nevada State directory resources & information providing web links to Nevada business, society, travel guide, shopping & services, computer, networking, transportatio...
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http://www.greatnevada.com
Nebraska Web Directory, Nebraska Information and Service, USA
Greatnebraska.com is the Nebraska online directory providing useful information, business, real estate, services, science, environment, art, entertainment, travel, shopping, education, he...
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http://www.greatnebraska.com
Missouri Directory, Missouri Business, Missouri Society, Missouri Travel Guide
Finding local Missouri directory with useful links accross MO such as local Missouri state information, science, environment, travel, shopping, education, art, entertainment, health, beau...
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http://www.greatmissouri.com
Michigan Directory, Michigan Business, Michigan Education, Michigan Travel Guide
GreatMichigan.com provides a huge sources of information or service in Michigan including local information, business, culture, travel, transportation, health, insurance, local news, spor...
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http://www.greatmichigan.com
Massachusetts Local Web Directory, Guide, MA Business Guide, US
GreatMassachusetts.com provides interesting information & resource related to Massachusetts business, computer, networking, travel, real estate, shopping, services, education, health, sci...
arts, barnstable, bellingham, berkley, bernardston, bondsville, bridgewater, business, cities, computer, More... saved by: thang more details ...
http://www.greatmassachusetts.com
Maryland Directory, Maryland Local Guide, MD Information and Service, US
GreatMaryland.com contains listings to browse for any aspects such as Maryland travel, business, real estate, shopping, transportation, services, recreation, sports, arts & humanities, he...
arts, business, callaway, cambridge, churchville, cities, computer, directory, economy, environment, More... saved by: thang more details ...
http://www.greatmaryland.com
Local Louisiana Web directory, Business Directory in Louisiana, USA
Find everything that you need on many services and information at GreatLouisiana.com including arts, humanity, computer, networking, education, health, insurance, news, media, recreation,...
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http://www.greatlouisiana.com
Scott London, "Crossing Borders: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez," The Sun Magazine 260 (August 1997)
Rodriguez on assimilation, race, "divesity," migration, and Los Angeles.
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http://www.thesunmagazine.org/archives/1884?print=all
YouTube - More Americans Killed By Illegal Aliens Than In Iraq
Illegal aliens are killing more Americans than the Iraq war, says a new report from Family Security Matters that estimates some 2,158 murders are committed e...
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http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lb3oFzCj_0
Stowboard: foldable skateboard for about $100
This is a cool idea ... Seen on Eric Skiff's Twitter stream.
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http://www.bossbi.com/boards/stowboard/stowboard.php
What Is the Future of Suburbia? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
blogclip, cars, cities, energy, environment, future, latoc, oil, suburbia, suburbs, More... saved by: nbr more details ...
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/what-is-the-future-of-suburbia-a-freakonomi...
"Invisible Cities": five-minute audio collages from 24 cities around the world
Pretty amazing. Twenty-four artists working with field recording teams put together five-minute audio pastiches representing 24 cities -- Beijng, Belfast, Marrakesh, Naples, Washington, a...
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http://www.fallt.com/invisiblecities
Orange County Business Directory, Orange County Education, Orange County Tourism
OrangeCountyBusiness.com offers links to Orange County business, apparel, arts & crafts, automotive, computer & networking, education, entertainment, insurance, investment services, real ...
advertising, anaheim, apparel, arts, atwood, automotive, beauty, beverage, books, brea, More... saved by: thang more details ...
http://www.orangecountybusiness.com
Bio Mapping: Charting Emotional Hotspots in the Cityscape | PSFK - Trends, Ideas
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http://www.psfk.com/2008/07/bio-mapping-charting-emotional-hot-spots-in-the-cityscape.html
How about a little sewage in your water glass?
Orange County has just set up a system which allows wastewater to be filtered, purified, and then re-injected back into the local aquifer. Permalink: http://snipr.com/3e8gj
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/magazine/10wastewater-t.html
Another genius invention from Holland: the foldable plastic greenhouse
This is an amazing idea. It could have all sorts of uses.
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http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/07/16/foldable-greenhouse-by-daniel-schipper
Russia directory, Russia Information and Resources, Russia Business, Russia Travel
GateRussia.com is the Russia directory offering you links to website related to Russia, travel, sport, health, local guide, education, transport, business, investment, history, culture an...
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http://www.gaterussia.com
Urban spelunking: abandoned roofs and tunnels (Salon, 2001)
Salon's profile of some prominent members of what it calls the "urban infiltration movement" -- a Web-centric community of people whose hobby is exploring and documenting abandoned nooks ...
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http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/01/16/infiltration/index.html
Cities Around the World - Home
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http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/digilib/cities/index.html
Pasona O2, Tokyo's underground farm
In a vault underneath a major Tokyo office building, there is a 1000-sq.m. organic rice and vegetable farm, utilizing LED lighting, computer-controlled temperatures, and hydroponics. Inte...
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http://marukuwato.multiply.com/journal/item/171/Tokyo_Underground_High_Tech_Urban_Organic_Fa...
Radiant City :: A Documentary About Urban Sprawl
A documentary in which a two-man team consisting of a journalist and "Canada's king of surreal comedy", heavily influenced by James Howard Kunstler, heads off to document life in the mass...
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http://www.radiantcitymovie.com
Annalee Newitz, "Anti-authoritarian Cities" (AlterNet, 9/5/2007)
Reflections on the significance of new discoveries about the development of the ancient Syrian town Brak, which appears to have grown together out of various disparate groups rather than ...
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http://www.alternet.org/story/61757
David Gonzalez, "For a Master Class on Global Worship, It’s Destination Queens" (NYT, July 2, 2007)
An international seminar on interreligious coexistence and pluralism, based in New York City. I haven't actually read this yet. Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5SFsEzH5t.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/02/nyregion/02citywide.html?pagewanted=all
Main Street Phoenixville
Website primarily about the summer music series in Phoenixville. Next summer I swear I'm going.
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http://www.mainstreetphoenixville.org/index.php
"Back-to-the-land": personal reflections
Interesting piece about the tensions surrounding rural life and farming in today's culture. Everybody recognizes that we've catastrophically lost touch with the natural world, but at the ...
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http://thetyee.ca/Life/2006/11/29/BackToTheLand
The "Not So Big House": links & resources for human-sized living
The Not So Big House is a fantastic book; the author has apparently turned it into a Not So Little Business, so to speak. Still, lots of good information and ideas here.
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http://www.notsobighouse.com/index.asp
Trailer for Radiant City, Canadian documentary on suburbia
Trailer for the documentary I clipped about (http://snipurl.com/1j34u).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFNdQDBy2rY
"Radiant City": a documentary on suburban sprawl [2]
A documentary in which a two-man team consisting of a journalist and "Canada's king of surreal comedy", heavily influenced by James Howard Kunstler, heads off to document life in the mass...
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http://www.radiantcitymovie.com/about.php
PNAS: Innovation, growth, and the global future of urban life
A new article suggests that many sociological indicators for urban life conform to a relatively simple mathematical model, and that the model predicts that "innovation cycles" will have t...
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http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104/17/7301
Georgia Center for Urban Agriculture
Looks useful and kind of cool, but haven't really examined the site yet.
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http://apps.caes.uga.edu/urbanag
Congress for the New Urbanism
This is the CNU's own site. They recently convened in Philadelphia, and I am curious about their work.
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http://www.cnu.org
Anti-sprawl petition -- Upper Providence Twp., PA
I am bookmarking this because I'm interested in examples of the Web affecting local community organization and activism. In the last few months, huge numbers of signs have sprouted up all...
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http://saveupperprov.com
Philadelphia lolcat
Haha. Sort of funny ... sort of not.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/nbr/1105617882
Brooklyn endures first-ever tornado (yes, really)
Via EcoTumble.com (http://snipr.com/1pe2q). One fatality reported in Staten Island; only minor injuries in Brooklyn.
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http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_220172727.html
Web Urbanist » 7 (More!) Underground Wonders of the World: Lost Caverns and Buried Cities
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http://weburbanist.com/2007/10/15/7-more-underground-wonders-of-the-world-lost-caverns-and-c...