March 2012
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if you say the first syllable of Québec with an...
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youknowquebec:
Wait, do people actually pronounce it as KWA-beck? I have never heard this in my life what is going on
Why would you even do this
I am so confused
read properly. i said in joual, which is an informal canadian french dialect. /Kwa/ is the standard way of saying quoi. /kwe/ is rarely said but still said in Québec. you pronounce Québec in...
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if you say the first syllable of Québec with an...
youknowquebec:
Wait, do people actually pronounce it as KWA-beck? I have never heard this in my life what is going on
Why would you even do this
I am so confused
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Participatory Public Art in a Favela →
With this kind of participatory urban art project, what we are looking for is to inspire, to use art in public spaces as a tool for change. We try to uplift the environment and make neighbors believe that they can change it for the best — small changes maybe, but this small change can inspire big ones. The outcome of this project has been amazing. Now Vila Brasilândia is appearing in the media...
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Air - “Run”
Strange and haunting.
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tobeattheband:
Just finished watching the latest episode of Being Human (US). This was the most intense episode I’ve seen all season and possibly the entire series.
How could I not reblog this. This gif, my life. So many emotions.
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howlsmovingcastle:
You know those book hangovers when you wake up in the morning after finishing the book the night before and the FIRST thing you think about is the book, and then you have all these feelings still and you don’t know what to do with them, and no one around understands, and it feels like reality is still moving around you but you’re stuck in that book hangover and still cannot...
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Gusgus - “Over”
Nice beat. Nice.
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Labyrinth Ear - “Amber”
Haha the top...
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“Mahshid’s… father, a devout Muslim, had been an ardent supporter of...”
– Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (New York: Random House, 2003) 12-13.
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10 Reasons the Rest of the World Thinks the U.S.... →
American policymakers: still grotesquely misogynistic.
This week the Georgia State legislature debated a bill in the House, that would make it necessary for a woman to carry a stillborn baby until she ‘naturally’ goes into labor just as, according to Representative Terry England, pregnant cows and pigs do.
Mr. England, unlike the calves and pigs for which you expressed so much...
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Ontario shows us we should support our teachers,... →
This is pretty interesting. I feel like a lot of the times in Canada, we look to continental Europe (Scandinavia as the Holy Grail) and their reform policies as a guiding idea. It’s interesting that Ontario’s education reforms is being featured in the UK.
Ontario learned from some of the 1997 English Labour government’s successes (when standards mattered more than structures),...
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Copenhagen: A city of SUV cyclists →
Copenhagen boasts that more than 36 percent of people commuting in to the city, and 55 percent of all Copenhagen residents, cycle to their place of work or education every day via 350 kilometers (217 miles) of bike lanes, and 40 kilometers (25 miles) of bike paths, according to Danish government statistics.
Those statistics seemed completely implausible to me for a country where intermittent...
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Health fear on estates: Melbourne's sickest... →
Councils in outer growth areas say soaring populations have outstripped their ability to provide basic infrastructure such as public transport, parks and medical services, and are creating ”obesogenic” environments that promote weight gain.
”We are designing communities that are making people sick and politicians have to listen to that,” said opposition planning...
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CITY BREATHS: ECO-BRUTALISM and how contemporary... →
citybreaths:
The new Cooper Union Building in New York (©Ahmed ElHusseiny). According to PPS, “architecture critics praise it with absurd language that is disconnected from the reality of how the building makes people feel. The arrogant 1 percent fail to understand how the 99 percent react.”
The ideas…
This is absolutely fantastic. This is also very closely related to what I’ll...
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Regal Safari - “Only”
Chill and slow....
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Finish reading a book and reality just isn't good...
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Cunninlynguists - “Dreams (feat. Tunji...
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DL Incognito - “Dreams”
Holy…...
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Jessie Ware - “Disclosure”
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Is There a Downside to 'Intelligent Cities' or... →
Sprawl will still be sprawl; disinvestment will still be disinvestment; traffic will still be traffic; sprawl-aided obesity will still be obesity.
Brent Toderian, Vancouver’s planning director, adds: At a conference late last year in Spain, I found myself on panels discussing new technologies that will improve cities, surrounded by tech-company reps hard-pitching to a global audience. I...
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It's Net Present Value time Tumblhurrrrr. Lets get...
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Grimes on CBC Radio 3 →
More music! Also, I never realized how nice the CBC Radio website was. Mmm, easy to use and quick load times. This makes the Internet lurker in me happy. :>
She cannot read music and has no understanding of theory or notation, so her attempts to imitate often fail. Rather, the result is particularly unique, strangely beautiful, sometimes scary, frequently melancholic and catchy as hell.
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Grimes - “Oblivion”
Another walk...
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Obama Backs Student in Furor With Limbaugh on... →
“Mr. Limbaugh subsequently called her a ‘slut’ and a ‘prostitute,’ drawing condemnation from Democrats.”
Seriously what the fuck. I just don’t fucking understand how someone can say they are more moralistic than someone else and then go on to call someone else such words. This is pure bullshit and this is so fucking misogynistic.
“[Obama] encouraged...
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This Big City + 城事: Ten of the Best Urbanism Blogs... →
thisbigcity:
A couple of weeks back we asked you ‘what are the best urbanism tumblogs?’ We heard your suggestions (and also had a few of our own). So here they are, ten of our favourite urbanism tumblogs:
Urbalize - Urbalize presents a portfolio of images and videos exploring imaginative use of urban…
Reblogging this because it is a fantastic list and a great resource. I am working on...
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CITY BREATHS: Definition of a City #1 →
citybreaths:
A Bursting City by Evan Leeson (ecstaticist @ Flickr) ”Cities are the spatial articulations of political, demographic, economic, technological and cultural developments which take place on local, regional, national and global scales. A city is continuously being shaped by its context, and its identity, form and function are continuously being redefined. It is a dynamic entity...
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“When dwellers control the major decisions and are free to make their own...”
– John F. C. Turner, Freedom to Build: dweller control of the housing process (via entrappedspaces)
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