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The Weather Bowl
[Image: A passing Illinois lightning storm and supercell, the clouds peeling away to reveal evening stars; photo ©Extreme Instability/Mike Hollingshead. If you can overlook pet photos, meanwhile, don’t...
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Zone for Cloud
[Image: Detail of a zoning map for New York City]. Earlier this month, mammoth – just two months old, but already one of the more interesting architecture blogs out there – cited climatological...
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Calling All Agents
Here are some opportunities for writers, designers, and filmmakers, in case you’re looking for ways to challenge yourself over the summer. [Image: “Angels” (2006) by Ruairi Glynn, one of the...
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Weather is the Future of Urban Design
[Image: From a newscast about Istanbul’s recent tornadoes]. It’s hard to resist a story where urban design is blamed for creating tornadoes. But the recent cluster of “freak mini-tornadoes” striking...
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The Electromagnetic Fortification of the Suburbs
[Image: A drone from DJI]. It’s hardly surprising to read that drones can be repurposed as burglars’ tools; at this point, take any activity, add a drone, and you, too, can have a news story (or...
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Photographer Gisela Erlacher has been documenting “the spaces found hidden underneath highways and flyovers across Europe and China,” as seen in the many photos posted over at Creative Boom. “Each...
View ArticleDirections Might Not Terminate
Katherine Ye has posted short descriptions of “twenty tiny cities,” an homage to Italo Calvino, and some of them are so good. Clockwork City: “Buildings are constantly sliding, turning, merging,...
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The Remnants
[Image: From An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto’s Natural Parklands by Robert Burley]. Photographer Robert Burley has a new book due out in two weeks called An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto’s Natural...
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Cities of the Sun
[Image: Ningbo, China, via Google Maps]. Although I’ll leave it up to you to decide if you agree with the author’s critique of planning regulations, there is a fascinating post over at NYU’s Marron...
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Metropolitan Accomplice
[Image: Photo by Jonas Roosens/AFP/Getty Images, courtesy of the Guardian]. You might have seen the news that a crew of burglars used sewer tunnels beneath the diamond district in Antwerp, Belgium, to...
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