Friday, February 11, 2011
Better Block Mention
This time by Neil Takemoto of CoolTownStudios who uses an anecdote from the Better Block Project at his TEDxPotomac talk:
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- #18 - Graffiti (NEW)
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- #15 - Jaywalking
- #14 - Willing Homeless
- #13 - Holes in the Wall
- #12 - Hailing a Cab
- #11 - Angry Cars = Angry Drivers
- #10 - Tradesmen (ie Cobblers)
- #9 - Dog Shit
- #8 - Grid vs. Cul-de-sac
- #7 - Healthy and Abundant Pigeons
- #6 - AYFs (Attractive Young Females)
- #5 - Creative Panhandling
- #4 - Double Parking
- #3 - BABIES!!!!
- #2 - Walkability
- #1 - Live the Way You Want
Dallas Development Commentary
- Community Gardens and Nourishing South Dallas
- On the Downtown Plan
- Main Street Garden vs Bryant Park
- Dallas, left at the alter, Groom runs away with Atlanta
- Golden Boy and building off of Main Street's Successes
- Snake Charming - Removing Freeways
- "Potemkin Village" - Victory
- Dallas Budget - Quit Building So Many Damn Roads
- Part 2a: DTD's Cavities (1 thru 5)
- Part 1: DTD, from Viable to Memorable...Woah, we forgot the Livable Part!
- West Village? West Egg. (coming soon)
- City of Mole People - Dallas Tunnels (coming soon)
- Dallas, Texas, and the Transportation of the 21st Century
- DCC Hotel - Round 2 - DINGGGG!!!
- Convention Center Hotel. Epic Fail
- Highways bug me; Choke Downtown. Selfishly, I Nag.
- The Walkable Orbs of DFW floating in a Velvet Void of Shit
- Lower Manhattan vs. DTD; First Round TKO
- DTD Parks
- Don't MAKE me walk.
- Parking Dilemma. Ditch it.
- The Noose Around Downtown's Neck. Barely a Pulse.
- Going to the Driving Range
- Dallas Convention Center Hotel
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- My Downtown Neighborhood
- Olfactory Map of DTD
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- Amersfoort - (winner: Amanda)
- Greenville, SC - (winner: FreakoSports)
- Newcastle, Oz - (winner: Andrea)
- Donets'k - (winner: STUMPED! I win)
- Empuriabrava, Spain - (winner: Andrea)
- Montevideo - (winner: Ryan)
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- Cape Town - (winner: Toby)
- San Gimignano - (winner: Paula)
- Welwyn Garden City (Toby)
- San Angelo, TX (winner: Andrea)
- Mykonos (winner: Paula)
- Montreal (winner: Andrea)
- Wells, UK (Winner: Toby)
- Bruges, Belgium (winner: Gitesh)
- Beirut (winner: Gitesh)
- Budapest (winner: Eric Hadden)
- Dubrovnik, Croatia (winner: Andrea)
- Portland, Maine (winner: Toby)
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- Tempe, AZ (winner: Toby)
- Bucharest (winner: Andrea)
- Plessis-Robinson, FR (winner: Lori)
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Around the World in 80 Seconds - Google Earth Case Studies
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- Valencia, Spain
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- Wired
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- The Daily Sprawl
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- TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
- Surviving Peak Oil
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- Project for Public Spaces
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