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.

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:

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:

One year in the making with the goal of illustrating the duality between city and nature the timelapse below by Dominic Boudreault is one of the best we have seen.  Locations include Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, New York and Chicago:

Timelapse – The City Limits from Dominic on Vimeo.

You can find more of Dominic’s work over at dominicboudreault.com