Gorgeous 1660 map depicting New York’s humble start. Next, the story of how Manhattan got its famous grid.
Also see Mapping Manhattan, hand-drawn personal memory maps by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Yoko Ono, Malcolm Gladwell, and 72 other New Yorkers.
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Charming PSA for public transit from New York’s MTA.
James Gulliver Hancock offers an intimate look at his wonderful illustration project, All the Buildings in New York.
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Lovely short film about Berlin’s urban cycling scene, a teaser for Gestalten’s book on bicycle culture and design.
New York’s streets and corners have a story attached to them and I guess that gives a sense of belonging, and in the process act as a markets on the timeline called life.
Om Malik considers the notion of home in the connected age, echoing Maya Angelou.
For more on New York’s ineffable magnetism, see E. B. White, Gay Talese, and Anaïs Nin.
It is the other ordinary buildings, spilling with hectic daily life, that hold real New York life and passion.
Australian illustrator James Gulliver Hancock has set out to draw all the buildings in New York.
Every event is, in a sense, optional, and the inhabitant is in the happy position of being able to choose his spectacle and so conserve his soul.
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.
Literary Jukebox: E. B. White’s Manhattan + Cat Power’s Manhattan
The geography of personality – new study maps the correlation between character traits (extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness openness, and neuroticism) and location.
This, of course, assumes “personality” is a fixed and stable variable – which we know it is not.
Beautifully minimalist line-drawing postcards of London Underground train depots. Complement with a pictorial history of how the Underground shaped London.
“It’s amazing to me that the once-gritty cross-section of neighborhoods is now international, something admired in Paris.”
Legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser, best-known for creating the famous I ♥ NY logo, on Brooklyn’s renaissance upon the 25th anniversary of his iconic Brooklyn Brewery identity.
Creative environmental nonprofit Do The Green Thing has partnered with 23 celebrated artists and designers to create a poster a day, for 23 consecutive days, until Earth Hour 2013. All posters are available as prints, with proceeds benefiting the DTGT charity.
Pair this one, by Tom Uglow, with a case for the walkable city.
The importance of rail transit cannot be understated For the 6,000 years we’ve been building cities, the transportation system you pick dictates the form of the built environment.
Wonderful short film from the Everybody Walk initiative makes the case for public transit’s contribution to walkable cities. Also see what makes a great city and how the London Tube changed culture.
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