by David | Jul 5, 2014 | design, urbanism
While hanging out on the LES with the young lions of fintech, I stayed at the newly soft opened Ludlow Hotel and was enchanted by this coffee table in the shape of Manhattan with the street grid incised in it. It sort of reminds me of Max Becher’s Chocolate...
by David | Jul 3, 2014 | urbanism, working
They say that your MIT credentials get more impressive and valuable the farther you get from MIT. This is nicely illustrated by this thing that happened to me in New York the other day, which most certainly could not have happened in Cambridge. It also, by the way,...
by David | Jul 1, 2014 | culture, transportation, urbanism
Lately I’ve noticed more and more people on the platform doing the “oh no, you go first” thing and selflessly standing by and letting others board the train first. I’ve even witnessed two or more such chivalrous folks come close to an...
by David | Jun 23, 2014 | economics, technology, transportation, urbanism
Via TechCrunch, I learned that the city of San Francisco is putting legal pressure on Monkey Parking, an app that lets people who are parked in public spaces get paid to leave by people looking for parking. At Jalopnik, the same news is covered with the headline,...
by David | Jun 2, 2014 | culture, urbanism
In what passes for a breathless lede on the BBC, Finlo Rohrer writes, A number of recent books have lauded the connection between walking – just for its own sake – and thinking. But are people losing their love of the purposeless walk? It seems to me that...
by David | May 9, 2014 | photo, urbanism
On this mothers day, I’m sure your mother would remind you to plan ahead when tagging uneven surfaces. If you don’t, she might send somebody to knock you out.
