2010
instant hutong
Instant Hutong art project investigates the borderline case of Hutong districts in old downtown Beijing. The work explores both spatial and social aspects to screen the uniqueness of a urban tissue made of lanes and courtyard houses and the community of people living in it. It is organized as a series of art pieces and installations on the border between art, social investigation and urban research in the aim to generate and stimulate an open debate. The work is currently involving questions such density, unstructured reappropriation, gentrification, relationship between people and their physical space, property speculation, disappearing community and identity.
2009
MyBikeLane.com
by XavierMilaret
Cars parked illegally in bike lanes / Bike Lane Violations from Around the World
Voitures garés illégalement sur les bandes cyclables / Violations de bandes cyclables du monde entier
2006
The Nation's Best Grocery Stores
by jasontromm (via)
Shopping for groceries can be an exercise in frustration, fraught with experiences you'd rather avoid.
The ideal? Lots of checkout lanes, wide aisles, and consistently fresh meat and produce — like at Wegmans, one of several stores which got top ratings in the October issue of Consumer Reports.
www.hutongphotography.com - about hutongs
The centre of Beijing is criss crossed with a grid of many hundreds of small lanes and alleyways. These are called hutongs and their layout dates originally from the Yuan dynasty in the 14th century.
Gov. Romney Shuts Down Big Dig Tunnel
by jasontromm
Gov. Mitt Romney ordered an immediate shutdown of the Ted Williams Tunnel's eastbound lanes Thursday as the investigation continued into a deadly collapse of ceiling panels in a connecting tunnel.
No reasons for the closure were immediately released. The governor has been overseeing the inspections of the Big Dig tunnels since shortly after the fatal accident July 10 that killed Milena Del Valle, 38, as she and her husband drove to the airport.
2005
2004
Arctic heads into warmer future
by tsalon
The report does not list simply the negatives that will come from a warmer world. It also says agriculture may become easier in some areas, there should be improved access to oil and gas deposits and new shipping lanes will open up.
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