Subway Riders' Quirks Studied
The seating calculations of subway riders’ where and when they choose to sit, though not necessarily why â were the subject of an observational study.
Student of the City
The Minneapolitan Urban Studies Nerd, Now In New York City
1st Arab Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
Great built environment news from the Middle East. They’re getting into disaster management (and a bit of climate adaptation). The conference was held last month in Aqaba, Jordan. And you can view and download a boatload of power point presentations by the speakers, here.
Not sure how long the resources will be online, so get them while they last!
The conference will provide a forum for Arab politicians, policy makers, planners, academia and development experts to discuss issues and challenges facing the region with regard to disaster risk reduction. This session is being co-organized by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA), the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) and the League of Arab States (LAS).
Reblogged from Climate Adaptation
New York man notices people trip on the same set of subway stairs all the time. Makes brilliant video.
Reblogged from Deconstructed City
gantry crane.
Fog, Long Island City, 2011
“After all is said and done and developed, grafting an organic identity onto such spaces is a long, arduous process. It’s the difference between building a neighborhood where people will live versus building a neighborhood where people want to live.” - Kim Velsey, The New York Observer
Reblogged from los fuzzy dice
good:
Why My Lease Says ‘Be a Good Neighbor’
- Adele Peters wrote in New York City, Brooklyn and CommunityI don’t think I had specific expectations of neighborliness when I first moved from California to New York. If someone had asked me, I would have probably guessed that things in my new neighborhood wouldn’t have been that different from parts of the Bay Area; a steady flow of people moving in and out of apartments on the block, and people often passing each other on the street with heads down, without stopping to say hello.
Instead, I ended up in a neighborhood that reminds me of Sesame Street…
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