The post: Curbed Los Angeles has “noticed an marked uptick in the number of pedestrians actually out on the streets, clearly identified as Trader Joe’s customers by their grocery bags.”
The first comment: “Trader Joe’s is secretly funded by urban theorists! Make parkind [sic] difficult enough, and people will walk!”
Go see rgreco’s bookmarks tagged walking+losangeles.
Since 2007 Ari Kletzky has been claiming Los Angeles traffic islands in the name of the community.
This year ILA has hosted daylong activities at intersections that stitch together the criss-crossing neighborhoods of Los Angeles, organizing concerts, tetherball games, picnics, birthday parties and public discussions. They aim to redefine expectations of what an island can be used for (mainly that it can be used for a lot more than traffic signals, poor landscaping and trash). They ask, Why don’t we all meet up in public spaces that are free and open, instead of at expensive bars and restaurants? Why do we hang out on beaches and in parks during the day but not at night?” “Is it legal to assemble on a traffic island?”
They’ve only recently had a run-in with the law, which they documented on the project’s blog.
‘Untouched’ East German flat discovered
[via hawktrainer]
It appears the inhabitant of the humble flat fled in a rush.
Grocery brands from the Socialist state filled the kitchen and old bread rolls still lay in a string bag.
A wall calendar showed August 1988 and an empty bottle of Vita Cola, Marella margarine, Juwel cigarettes and a bottle of Kristall vodka were in the kitchen.
The only foreign product to be found was a West German bottle of deodorant.
See also the most popular bookmarks tagged ‘abandoned’ on delicious.com.
The Siege of Leningrad ended 65-years ago today
[via bldgblog]
Old photographs from the Siege of Leningrad superimposed over photographs from the city as it is today. (English translation of the original page.)
“rising like alien plants on the terraformed lakebed”
[via mtchl]
In order to minimize the carcinogenic dust storms off of barren Owens Lake, the City of Los Angeles built a series of over 5,000 irrigation bubblers on the lakebed at a cost of $425 million. Pruned compares these bubblers—sad, broken sprinklers, really—to fountains:
since time immemorial, fountains have been creating micro-climates, cooling gardens, palaces and sartorially bedecked aristocrats. The array of bubblers, you could say, is also a type of weather modification system: an anti-dust storm.
Looking toward EveryBlock’s future
[via migurski]
Adrian Holovaty announces the EveryBlock publishing system will go open-source when their grant ends five months from today. With so many smart people able to get their hands on that code, I wonder how long until we have the beginnings of a Craigslist for location-based local news.
I also wonder if this decision by EveryBlock will force Sufjan Stevens into open-sourcing his album-writing formula so the rest of us can release material based on the other states.
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