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Friday Funny: Smellvertising, Coming to a Bus Stop Near You
John Metcalfe reports on an advertising campaign appearing at bus stops across the UK featuring a fiberglass potato sculpture and a mysterious odor emitting button.
10 February 2012 - 2:00pm
The Atlantic Cities
Senate Yeas While House Nays on Transportation
Ben Goldman follows the recent developments as the Senate and House Transportation bills make their way through the Capitol.
10 February 2012 - 1:00pm
Streetsblog D.C.
Seeing a Bright Side to the Architecture Meltdown
Frances Anderton pens a response to recent hand wringing about the future of the architecture profession, opining on the cyclical nature of the profession and her reasons for optimism.
10 February 2012 - 12:00pm
Design & Architecture Blog
Super Slim Me?
Kaid Benfield looks at recent trends in the housing sector and asks whether America's infatuation with the McMansion is over.
10 February 2012 - 11:00am
Switchboard
Why NASA's Spectacular Image of the Earth is So Disturbing
NASA's amazing high definition update of its infamous "Blue Marble" photograph of Earth is disturbing not for what can be seen, but for what cannot.
10 February 2012 - 10:00am
Mother Jones
The Secrets Behind the High Line
In a lengthy interview with ALSA's blog, The Dirt, Robert Hammond, Co-Founder of the High Line, details the birth, life, and lessons of the phenomenally successful park.
10 February 2012 - 9:00am
THE DIRT
One of Britain's Most Important Architectural Treasures Gets Rescued
Robin Stummer reports on the fate of Britain's greatest surviving historic wooden building, a huge medieval barn that had suffered from years of neglect.
10 February 2012 - 8:00am
The Independent
Green Sponge Will Clean Contaminants Entering NYC Waterway
Matt Sledge profiles the work of a landscape architect who has designed an attractive and innovative system for keeping contaminants out of one of New York's most polluted waterways.
10 February 2012 - 7:00am
Huffington Post
NYT Editorial Blasts House Transportation Bill
Calling it "uniquely terrible", the Times questions whether it will even survive a full floor vote in the House. The editorial lists three major problems with the bill, but notes there are many more.
10 February 2012 - 6:00am
The New York Times - The Opinion Pages
The Staying Power of Green Jobs
Sarah Laskow reports on new findings that show California’s green economy fared much better in the economic downturn than the economy as a whole, demonstrating the overall staying power of green jobs.
10 February 2012 - 5:00am
Good
Silicon Valley Primed for Facebook Real Estate Boom
Silicon Valley real estate agents and residents are primed for the potential rush of "newly minted Facebook millionaires," now that the company is on its way to becoming publicly traded.
9 February 2012 - 2:00pm
The New York Times
Data Sharing Seen as Crucial to the Future of Public Transit
When civic leaders from around the world gathered for Vancouver's 2012 Cities Summit last week, urban transport was on everyone's lips, and information sharing was seen as the key to unlocking future successes.
9 February 2012 - 1:00pm
Vancouver Observer
Toronto City Council Defeats Mayor, Resurrects Transit City
In a stunning blow to Mayor Rob Ford -- who, on his first day in office in 2010 scrubbed the "Transit City" plan in favor of an ill-thought out and unfunded subway scheme -- the Toronto City Council has quashed his plans and resurrected the old one.
9 February 2012 - 12:00pm
Globe and Mail
Getting Bullish on Housing
Peter Coy and Prashant Gopal report on recent developments in the housing market that may signal a solution to the four-year-old crisis.
9 February 2012 - 11:00am
Bloomberg/Business Week
How to Survive An Earthquake in the Bay Area
When the Big One strikes the Bay Area you'll want to be on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, set to open next year. Its flexibility will allow it to ride the earthquake.
9 February 2012 - 10:00am
The New York Times
Paris Authorizes Cyclists To Run Red Lights
In most cases, traffic signals are used to stop vehicles succumbing to Newton's law of motion, but a new decree in Paris will change that. Eighteen intersections are now subject to newly relaxed rules that allow cyclists to continue at red lights.
9 February 2012 - 9:00am
The Telegraph
After the Death of Redevelopment, Utilizing the Tools at Hand
In an editorial for The Sacramento Bee, William Fulton outlines the multitude of resources and strategies currently available to assist Californian cities in proceeding with redevelopment.
9 February 2012 - 8:00am
The Sacramento Bee
Will a Liberated Workforce Still Need Cities?
Kaid Benfield investigates the rise of a more independent and nimble workforce, and ponders what the new economy means for the shape of cities as we enter an urban epoch
9 February 2012 - 7:00am
Switchboard
Tactical Urbanism Lands in Raleigh
Emily Badger reports on surreptitious wayfinding signage that has been appearing mysteriously under the cover of darkness in Raleigh.
9 February 2012 - 6:00am
The Atlantic Cities
A New (Old) Vision For Penn Station
Michael Kimmelman, newish architecture critic for The New York Times, adds his two cents to the decades old discussion of how to improve Penn Station. His solution starts with moving Madison Square Garden.
9 February 2012 - 5:00am
The New York Times