petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 22 2009 | cities, design, transportation, blogs, development, planning, buses, trains
This is a blog entry based on my newfound love of buses.
Quoted: Buses generally lack the poetry of railways. This may be why there hasn't been a Bus Named Desire or a Soul Bus. I tend to associate buses with congestion, exhaust, delays, noise, and advertisements. ... At the same time, bus systems are less expensive and more flexible than trains. If we can make them more appealing, they might become a popular alternative to private vehicles.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 10 2009 | people, cities, books, ideas, development, design, architecture
Quoted: Both the tree and the semilattice are ways of thinking about how a large collection of many small systems goes to make up a large and complex system. More generally, they are both names for structures of sets.
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360 degree views from the top and base of the Shukhov Tower!
Quoted: by Andrey Ilyin
ShareViewed: 7 Times - petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 15 2008 | design, architecture, world, cities, poverty, development, blogs
This is an entry I posted today for International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. It includes pictures and commentary on China's new Tulou affordable housing prototypes, which are currently on display at the Cooper-Hewitt.
Quoted: While Ouroussoff praises its “graceful balancing act between historical and contemporary values,” some of his terms (such as monks' cells ...
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petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 06 2008 | architecture, planning, cities, travel, design, development, world, international
Kind of tough to navigate this site, but rewarding images and info.
Quoted: Jože Plečnik`s Virtual Museum, image collection, interactive maps, searchable database of Plečnik`s work, articles, interviews. Bibliography, biography, special gift collection, downloads and more.
ShareViewed: 2 Times- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 29 2008 | blogs, architecture, photography, cities, development, design, books
I really like this blog. Today, especially the photos of marks left by past buildings on the walls of current buildings.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 20 2007 | typography, design, photography, technology, cities
m redot.
rapid phototyping!
ShareViewed: 32 Times - petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 20 2007 | sustainability, planning, design, energy, development, international, world, innovation, ideas, technology, agriculture, nature, environment, cities
Quoted: an approach to designing human settlements, in particular the development of perennial agricultural systems that mimic the structure and interrelationship found in natural ecologies...Exemplary permaculture designs evolve over time, and can become extremely complex mosaics of conventional and inventive cultural systems that produce a high density of food and materials with minimal input.
ShareViewed: 7 Times - petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 10 2007 | architecture, technology, engineering, exhibitions, cities, planning, history, development, photography, travel, design
A history of British architecture, with exceptional photos.
Quoted: select your time period, and get to know the chief characteristics of British architecture. Choose from the Middle Ages, Tudor and Stuart, Georgian, Victorian periods and the twentieth century.
ShareViewed: 36 Times - petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 10 2007 | cities, international, world, design, architecture, planning, nature, environment, public health, sustainability, people, ideas, egypt
Impressive Egyptian architect, professor, and designer of gardens in Cairo.
Quoted: University of California in Berkeley where he worked with Christopher Alexander and graduated in architecture. Parallel to his profesional practice, he teaches at Cairo University. Apart from the Farafra Oasis Project and other projects, he created another outstanding garden, El-Hod El-Marsoud (1989), and designed a cultural centre, a museum, a theatre, a children's library and a day-care centre – all for the park of Sayyeda Zainab in Cairo.
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