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Aug 04
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Aug 02
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The Beat of Shibuya

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Shibuya in Tokyo is second only to Akihabara as one of our of favourite places to truly observe the urban phenomena. The movie was captured by  darwinfish105 soon after the recent earthquake with a note from the author that despite the then fears of radioactive contamination the heartbeat of the city continued:


Lens : TS-E24mm f/3.5L
Lens : Canon EF50mm F1.8 II

Music : Those 3 Lovely Seconds (Original Mix) by Awakenas jamendo.com/en/track/617099

Aug 01
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Wear You Live – City Fabric

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We love ‘Wear you Live’ by City Fabric – in short its a series of products from T-Shirts to Tote Bags, Prints, Cushions printed with a figureground map. This type of map is commonly used in the fields of city planning, design and architecture to study density and development patterns by depicting all of the buildings in a city as opposed to the streets, parcels or transit lines With 13 cities across the USA planned, the concept is currently raising funds via KickStarter:



Its one of the those ideas where you sit back and think ‘wow why didn’t i think of that’, we hope the project will roll out on a global basis soon as they raise funds, after all a London Tote Bag or Urban Cushion is surely essential.


Head over to the Wear you Live page on Kickstarter to help them get going.

Jul 29
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A Science of Cities

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Its taken a while but sometimes the wait is worth it. The latest blog out of CASA is written by its founder – Professor Mike Batty. Entitled ‘A Science of Cities‘ it is a site to bookmark as it is written by one of the leaders of the field. As Mike states – it has been a long time coming, but the Science of Cities is beginning. You can go back to the time of Newton to sense its origins and there is little doubt that Leonardo thought a little about how we might construe such a science. And if Leonardo knew about it, you can bet your bottom dollar that the Greeks had ideas about it.



In fact one of Mikes favourite quotes is reproduced in the frontispiece of Jane Jacobs (1969) book The Economy of Cities (Random House, NY), and it is from Herodotus’s The Histories:


“I will tell the story as I go along of small cities no less than of great. Most of those that were great once are small today; and those that in my own lifetime have grown to greatness, were small enough in the old days”.
Head over to http://www.complexcity.info/  for posts, news and movies on the emerging Science of Cities.
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