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Transportation
04.16.12: Aaron Paley & Amanda Berman
CicLAvia: Reimagining the Streets of Los AngelesOn Places, Aaron Paley and Amanda Berman argue that the semi-annual CicLAvia — which bans cars from parts of L.A. — is inspiring Angelenos to imagine a new urban future.
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09.06.11: James Barilla
The Road to ExurbiaOn Places, James Barilla recounts the rural pleasures of growing up in a hill town in Western Massachusetts — yet regrets the deep environmental footprint of low-density exurban life.
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05.19.11: Ian Baldwin
The Architecture of Harry WeeseOn Places, Ian Baldwin reviews The Architecture of Harry Weese, and finds an overlooked modernist whose work was "highly original and often stunning."
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04.07.11: Ray Gastil
In Motion: The Experience of TravelOn Places, Ray Gastil reviews In Motion: The Experience of Travel, the latest book by Tony Hiss.
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03.23.11: Anne Pierson Wiese
Sutliff BridgeOn Places, a poem by Anne Pierson Wiese, Sutliff Bridge, inspired by the dramatic destruction of an historic Iowa bridge in the floods of 2008.
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10.25.10: Hillary Brown
Infrastructural Ecologies: Principles for Post-Industrial Public WorksOn Places, architect Hillary Brown, founder of New York City's Office of Sustainable Design, proposes principles to guide construction of a next generation of green infrastructure.
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08.18.10: Martin Hogue
Land, Speed and BonnevilleOn Places — coinciding with Speed Week at Bonneville — a gallery created by architect Martin Hogue documents decades of land speed racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats of western Utah.
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04.19.10: Meena Kadri
People's Way: Urban Mobility in AhmedabadOn Places, New Zealand-based design writer Meena Kadri rides the new bus-rapid-transit in Ahmedabad, a system that strives to mix old and new, rich and poor — and even offers yoga classes to the drivers.
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10.08.09: Ian Baldwin
Mind the MapThe new map of the London Underground tried to de-clutter the diagram by removing the River Thames; architect Ian Baldwin analyzes the error.
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