Sidewalks

WATCH: Join the "Occupy Your Block" Sidewalk Chalk Campaign

Ben Zolno | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Sidewalks, New York, Social Media, Art, Activism, Occupy Wall Street, Political Activism, Protests, New Media, Chalk, Video, Politics News
Ben Zolno

The Outreach Group at Occupy Wall Street NYC has an idea inspired by this story of unity between strangers using the original social media: chalk. It...

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Behind the Scenes With Rick Kogan and Chicago Live!

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Chicago Theater, Fear No Art Chicago, Sunday Papers, Fear No Art, Chicago Tribune, Rick Kogan, Chicago Theatre, Chicago Live, Sidewalks, Wgn, Chicago News
Elysabeth Alfano

More than theatrical, Chicago Live! takes a magnifying glass to the details of our city and brings the wonder of a major newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, to life.

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Permeable Concrete Tested To Reduce City Street Flooding

Susan Buchanan | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: New Orleans, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Brad Pitt, Asphalt, Parking Lots, Lower Ninth Ward, Road Construction, Hurricane Katrina, Make It Right Foundation, U.S. Green Building Council, Sidewalks, China, Green News
Susan Buchanan

Pervious concrete has been around for twenty years or more, but its use in New Orleans is fairly recent.

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Pondering Artifacts of Displacement in the Sustainable City

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: U.S. Cities, Photography, Green Urban Planning, Living News, World, Urban Policy, Neighborhoods, Urban Planning, Rome, Architecture, Green, Travel, Urban Design, Real Estate, Sidewalks, Green Urban Design, Urbanism, World News, Transportation, Culture, Streets, Density, Travel News, Green News, Sustainability, Living, Pedestrians, Cities, Green News
Charles R. Wolfe

If our cities must be dense to be competitive and sustainable, we must also look with care to the potential displacement of uses, institutions or traditions -- not to mention the artifacts we will leave behind.

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Exploring the Immediacy of the In-Between Place

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: U.S. Cities, Photography, Green Urban Planning, Living News, Shopping, Urban Policy, Neighborhoods, Urban Planning, Architecture, Green, Urban Design, Real Estate, Sidewalks, Green Urban Design, Urbanism, Culture, Streets, Green News, Sustainability, Living, Pedestrians, Cities, Business, Business News, Arts News
Charles R. Wolfe

The archaeology of today's urban regions need not be excavation-based. One trick allows the illusion of memory through photographic tools.

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Corners as the Baseline for Urbanism

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 08.12.2011

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Charles R. Wolfe

More so than public squares -- which require a conscious set-aside of assembled space -- corners naturally result from crossroads, the elemental feature of travel between places.

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Creating the Urban Diary

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 08.07.2011

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Charles R. Wolfe

Cities are hubs of human interaction, and the urban experience can be enhanced by authentic participation in the dynamics of a place and transitions to nearby venues.

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Exploring Simple Urban Amenities at the Public Edge

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 08.02.2011

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Charles R. Wolfe

What if American cities legislated brighter color amid windows, balconies planted green and encouraged flags and hanging laundry? What if homeowner associations and rental contracts required vegetation and decoration?

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Coloring the Urban Experience

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: U.S. Cities, Walking, Living News, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Green, Green News, Sustainability, Living, Pedestrians, Sidewalks, Urbanism, Cities, Architecture, Photography, Green News
Charles R. Wolfe

How can we marshal the potential of urban color while retaining a legally appropriate balance between public regulation of the private realm?

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Inspiring the Redefinition of Urban Public Space

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: U.S. Cities, Walking, Economics, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Green, Green News, Sustainability, Pedestrians, Sidewalks, Urbanism, Cities, Living, Living News, Business News, Business, Green News
Charles R. Wolfe

Here, from afar, is more evidence that street and square, beach and byway all have a greater and unrealized multipurpose capacity, ripe for recalibration in ever-evolving America.

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Can't Stand Slow Walkers? You May Have 'Sidewalk Rage'

The Wall Street Journal | Shirley S. Wang | Posted 11.17.2011

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By Shirley S. Wang The Wall Street Journal You don't need a car to get road rage. For many people, few things are more infuriating than slow wa...

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PHOTOS: FEMME FATALE: 13 Artists's Work, From Andy Warhol to Aerosmith, Inspired By Marilyn Monroe

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Costume Design, Andy Warhol, Art, Street Art, Aerosmith, Graffiti, Slidepollajax, Marilyn Monroe, Robotics, Robot Art, Chicago Tribune, Sidewalks, Sketch, Arts News

From pop portraits to street graffiti, from amateur sketches to robot art, Marilyn Monroe's famous face and tragic life has inspired artists for gener...

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Taking a Stand to Keep Sitting Legal

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Space, First Amendment, Gavin Newsom, Criminalization, Homelessness, Free Speech, Youth Homelessness, Homeless, Criminal Justice, Sitting, Helping the Homeless, Sidewalks, San Francisco, Compassion, Politics News
Randall Amster

San Francisco is poised to become the latest in a string of cities to adopt a law making it a crime to sit on the sidewalk. While it is the case that ...

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The Things One Does...

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adler and Sullivan Building, Cigar, Sidewalks, Charles Osgood, Cigar Club, Rick Kogan, Chicago Cigar Society, Chicago News
Brian Dickie

This evening, at the end of the business day, I went to the Chicago Cigar Society's bi-weekly event, on this occasion to see and hear the ever enterta...

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A Woman Walks Down The Street

Carolita Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carolita Johnson

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The Bumbershoot Manifesto

Melissa Kirsch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Everyday Barbarism, Urban Etiquette, Decorum, Sidewalk Etiquette, Melissa Kirsch, Umbrella, Stormy Weather, Etiquette, Sidewalks, Modern Manners, Umbrellas, Society Run Amok, Manners, Urban Living, Umbrella Etiquette, City Living, Style News
Melissa Kirsch

If you must buy an umbrella, never buy a fancy umbrella. They are so easily and commonly lost, stolen and left behind that it never, ever pays to have an umbrella that you can't bear to lose.

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