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4 Microlog entries tagged with ‘city’
100 exciting things you didn’t know about Dublin
Some of these are a bit silly, others quite surprising. It’s part of a project tasked with reinvigorating the city centre (I hope they’ve noted the obvious points: blight in many parts creates a bad impression; and shopping/socialising options in the suburbs have improved, keeping people closer to home). Interesting ·
Manhattan Elsewhere
What would Manhattan look like if it could be floated to another city? Nice work, but an even more radical thought occurs: what if any city could float? We can already reclaim land from the sea and live on soil where there was recently only water — what’s stopping us from constructing a true floating city? And I don’t mean some humongous ocean liner — I mean a giant man-made island that could be propelled from one sea to another. Rather than a Manhattan Elsewhere, how about a Manhattan Anywhere? Interesting ·
BLDGBLOG’s Your Hidden City favourites
I like the last one the best, if only for the lighting. Arts & Culture ·
Long exposure photographs of Tokyo
These are just gorgeous. The sprawl, the compactness, the oversaturated colours, everything [c/o Vudeja]. Arts & Culture ·
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