Pittsburgh
Oakland-Downtown Pittsburgh transit plan full of promises but short on funding (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
Suburban Pittsburgh leaders push for bicycle lanes (Pittsburgh Tribune Review)
New Ohiopyle Visitors Center offers spectacular views (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
American Theater Magazine looks at Pittsburgh's site specific Quantum Theatre (American Theater Magazine)
Frostburg, Maryland
Two public sculptures unveiled on Allegheny Passage Bike Trail
Pennsylvania
A growing force in PA: Independent voters
Cleveland
The rise of the Cleveland Museum of Art (Belt Magazine)
Ohio Magazine features walkable Cleveland suburb of Lakewood as one of the states best hometowns (Cleveland.com)
Republican National Convention sparks inflated rental market (Cleveland.com)
PlayhouseSquare lights up for Winterfest 2014 (wkyc.com)
Shipping container architecture trend expands in Cleveland (wkyc.com)
Akron
Devo co-founder, Mark Mothersbaugh and film director, Wes Anderson consider concept of surreal theme park in Akron (Time Magazine)
Other Urbanism and Architecture News
Share of first-time home buyers hits 27 year low (Wall Street Journal)
NFL Teams harness stadiums as museums (New York Times)
Great Lakes cities found at the intersection of walkable and affordable (Great Lakes Echo)
Why middle class Americans can't afford to live in liberal cities (The Atlantic)
The case for trailer parks : Pre-fab homes grow as affordable quality housing option (National Journal)
Smartphones vs. taxi drivers (Reason)
Is the U.S. ready for seniors who want to stop driving? (Streetsblog)
Judge slams door on Uber in Nevada (KOLO8 News)
Where are the world's most dangerous transit systems for women? (CNN Travel)
New York City transit ranked safest for women among 16 major metro systems (Metro)
Why Minneapolis' beautiful bike freeways are totally the best (Grist)
Are walkable neighborhoods and bike lanes only for the creative class? (Public CEO)
Tiny houses have a not so tiny problem (Fast Company)
Tiny houses save Orlando owners money (Click Orlando)
Documentary to explore racism in transportation planning
(Streetsblog)
In violent Venezuela bulletproof everything (Yahoo News)
Ten little cities near D.C. with awesome urbanism (Greater Greater Washington)
Other Arts and Archeology News
Alberto Giacometti's Chariot sculpture expected to break record, sell or over $100 million (CNBC)
Chris Ofili's thumping art history lesson (New York Magazine)
The Getty unveils unpublished cache of Joseph Cornell's letters (Hyperallergic)
Columbian art is having a moment (The Art Newspaper)
Documenting caves used in the Irish War of Independence
Basquiat's unseen notebooks coming to the Brooklyn Museum (The Art Newspaper)
Fake Monet forgeries hit the auction block (Artnet)
Crowdsourcing may be transforming the film industry (Wired)
Amelia Earhart plane fragment identified (Discovery News)
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Tuesday, November 04, 2014
Wednesday, October 01, 2014
9/24- 10/1 2014 Weekly Arts and Urbanism Roundup
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh hires a bicycle director with a wealth of metro experience (Bike Pittsburgh)
Watch: A Wilkinsburg artist makes prints the old fashioned way (WESA Pittsburgh)
Google's presence in Pittsburgh and it's impact on local startups (Essential Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh's lost steamboat exhibit @ The Heinz History Center (Pittsburgh City Paper)
Sharon, Pennsylvania
Sharon's third and final Waterfire festival this year draws thousands (The Sharon Herald)
Cleveland
Is Northeast Ohio hurt by too much parking (and what can it do about it)? (Green City, Blue Lake)
Colorblind and rising. What's behind the success of Cleveland's Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School? (Belt Magazine)
Debut NEOcycle Festival to bring cycling, fee concerts and lifestyle hub to Cleveland's Edgewater Park.
Akron
Rubber City Invasion| Huffington Post asks: Is Akron the Liverpool of the Midwest? (ABC 5 TV)
Youngstown
The Butler brings art to fill void in school (Vindy.com )
Legendary/ notorious former congressman, Jim Traficant, Jr. dies (Vindy.com)
Columbus
The Wexner shows masterpieces from the Leslie Wexner Collection including works by Picasso, Degas, Dubuffet , Giacometti, de Kooning and others
Cincinnati
The 13th Mid-Point Music Festival in Cincinnati's Over The Rhine
Explore the Midpoint Music Festival
Detroit
Dlectricity Nightime Festival of Art and Light comes back to Midtown.
Pennsylvania
PA senate approves medical marijuana; future in the house uncertain (Pennsylvania Independent)
West Virginia and Appalachia
General Braddock's road through the wilderness (Appalachian History)
Bon Appetit Appalachia gastro tourism site launches, highlighting local food festivals, restaurants, breweries and farms
Welcome to Appalachia- home of the original locavores (Takepart,com)
Could Appalachia become as famous for food as Tuscany or Provence? (Burg Entertainment Guide)
Other Urbanism News
Student attendance at college sports events drops dramatically
Thoughts on my neighborhood, post Ferguson (Urbanophile)
Building connectivity in suburbia (Smart Growth for Conservatives)
Placemakers want to make sure they're heard at Habitat III conference (Next City)
Maryland suburbs embrace a new urbanism (Sacramento Bee)
Students paying extra for business skills they say they haven't learned on campus (The Hechinger Report)
Florida tries bike lanes on highway bridges (Streetsblog)
German court lifts ban on Uber ride service. (The New York Times)
What a park's design does to your brain (Next City)
Seattle to start fining people for wasting food (Triple Pundit)
Italy to calculate cocaine sales as part of GDP
Restaurants offering incentives to diners who turn off electronic devices. (CBS New York)
Google and Microsoft are putting Rio's favelas on the map (The Atlantic/ Citylab)
For bee-friendly parks, head for the great unmown (The Atlantic/ Citylab)
Bruges will cut traffic with an underground beer pipeline (Wired)
New law handcuffs restaurants in France (Reason)
NYPD captain and lieutenant arrested for drunk driving two hours apart (NY Post)
Art News
The International Center of Photography plans to leave Midtown Manhattan for The Bowery (The New York Times)
Satellite imagery shows extensive damage to Syria's world heritage sites. (Archaeology Magazine)
Emperor Augustus frescoes restored in Rome (Archaeology Magazine)
Pennsylvania's Longwood Gardens spending $90 million to update fountains. (The Art Newspaper)
Turner Prize show dominated by film and video art (BBC News)
EU mulls cadmium pigment ban. (Hyperallergic)
Everyone love illustration art, but where does one see it? (Huffington Post)
"Free art Fridays", a treasure hunt powered by instagram takes off in NYC (Artnet)
Is Norway an artist book paradise? (Hyperallergic)
A new documentary for forger who infiltrated America's art museums. (Hyperallergic)
Christies adds another 2% commission to sales that go over high sales estimate. (The Art Newspaper)
Massive Roman coin hoard unearthed in England (Archaeology Magazine)
Pittsburgh hires a bicycle director with a wealth of metro experience (Bike Pittsburgh)
Watch: A Wilkinsburg artist makes prints the old fashioned way (WESA Pittsburgh)
Google's presence in Pittsburgh and it's impact on local startups (Essential Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh's lost steamboat exhibit @ The Heinz History Center (Pittsburgh City Paper)
Sharon, Pennsylvania
Sharon's third and final Waterfire festival this year draws thousands (The Sharon Herald)
Cleveland
Is Northeast Ohio hurt by too much parking (and what can it do about it)? (Green City, Blue Lake)
Colorblind and rising. What's behind the success of Cleveland's Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School? (Belt Magazine)
Debut NEOcycle Festival to bring cycling, fee concerts and lifestyle hub to Cleveland's Edgewater Park.
Akron
Rubber City Invasion| Huffington Post asks: Is Akron the Liverpool of the Midwest? (ABC 5 TV)
Youngstown
The Butler brings art to fill void in school (Vindy.com )
Legendary/ notorious former congressman, Jim Traficant, Jr. dies (Vindy.com)
Columbus
The Wexner shows masterpieces from the Leslie Wexner Collection including works by Picasso, Degas, Dubuffet , Giacometti, de Kooning and others
Cincinnati
The 13th Mid-Point Music Festival in Cincinnati's Over The Rhine
Explore the Midpoint Music Festival
Detroit
Dlectricity Nightime Festival of Art and Light comes back to Midtown.
Pennsylvania
PA senate approves medical marijuana; future in the house uncertain (Pennsylvania Independent)
West Virginia and Appalachia
General Braddock's road through the wilderness (Appalachian History)
Bon Appetit Appalachia gastro tourism site launches, highlighting local food festivals, restaurants, breweries and farms
Welcome to Appalachia- home of the original locavores (Takepart,com)
Could Appalachia become as famous for food as Tuscany or Provence? (Burg Entertainment Guide)
Other Urbanism News
Student attendance at college sports events drops dramatically
Thoughts on my neighborhood, post Ferguson (Urbanophile)
Building connectivity in suburbia (Smart Growth for Conservatives)
Placemakers want to make sure they're heard at Habitat III conference (Next City)
Maryland suburbs embrace a new urbanism (Sacramento Bee)
Students paying extra for business skills they say they haven't learned on campus (The Hechinger Report)
Florida tries bike lanes on highway bridges (Streetsblog)
German court lifts ban on Uber ride service. (The New York Times)
What a park's design does to your brain (Next City)
Seattle to start fining people for wasting food (Triple Pundit)
Italy to calculate cocaine sales as part of GDP
Restaurants offering incentives to diners who turn off electronic devices. (CBS New York)
Google and Microsoft are putting Rio's favelas on the map (The Atlantic/ Citylab)
For bee-friendly parks, head for the great unmown (The Atlantic/ Citylab)
Bruges will cut traffic with an underground beer pipeline (Wired)
New law handcuffs restaurants in France (Reason)
NYPD captain and lieutenant arrested for drunk driving two hours apart (NY Post)
Art News
The International Center of Photography plans to leave Midtown Manhattan for The Bowery (The New York Times)
Satellite imagery shows extensive damage to Syria's world heritage sites. (Archaeology Magazine)
Emperor Augustus frescoes restored in Rome (Archaeology Magazine)
Pennsylvania's Longwood Gardens spending $90 million to update fountains. (The Art Newspaper)
Turner Prize show dominated by film and video art (BBC News)
EU mulls cadmium pigment ban. (Hyperallergic)
Everyone love illustration art, but where does one see it? (Huffington Post)
"Free art Fridays", a treasure hunt powered by instagram takes off in NYC (Artnet)
Is Norway an artist book paradise? (Hyperallergic)
A new documentary for forger who infiltrated America's art museums. (Hyperallergic)
Christies adds another 2% commission to sales that go over high sales estimate. (The Art Newspaper)
Massive Roman coin hoard unearthed in England (Archaeology Magazine)
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
9/10- 9/17 2014 Weekly Arts and Urbanism Roundup
Cleveland
The Cleveland Museum of Art celebrates 25th chalk Art festival. (Cleveland.com)
The link between Northeast Ohio's flooding and its sprawl. (Streetsblog)
Akron
New loft apartments and Brew Pub planned for old Tire factory.
Other Ohio Arts and Urbanism News
Columbus Dispatch Writer cycling and blogging across Ohio.
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh poet, Terrance Hayes named MacArthur fellow. (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood celebrates 200 years! (Essential Pittsburgh)
Does the city's high self-esteem create new problems? (Essential Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh cyclists concerned about redesign of Schenley Drive in Oakland (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
Artists from Mattress Factory discuss making it in Pittsburgh. (Pitt News)
Kurt Shaw reviews 2014 Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors annual @ Panza Gallery. (Tribune Review)
Pennsylvania DEP estimates there are 40 active underground coal fires burning across the state- including one under Pittsburgh Airport. (PA Independent)
West Virginia
Five free things to do in West Virginia in the fall. (Houston Chronicle)
Other Arts and Urbanism News
Indiana campus police acquire massive amounts of surplus military gear (JC online)
The new donut - decline of the inner ring suburbs. (Urbanophile)
"We can't have density there because there's not enough transit." (Human Transit)
How Germany's ban on Uber hurts the poor. (Business Week)
Others see Toronto as a success. Why don't we? (The Toronto Star)
Europe's big airlines no longer want to fly in Europe. (Business Week)
Wisconsin's famous Amish and Mennonite, Kolona, cheese "factory" closes due to government regulations.
The Cleveland Museum of Art celebrates 25th chalk Art festival. (Cleveland.com)
The link between Northeast Ohio's flooding and its sprawl. (Streetsblog)
Akron
New loft apartments and Brew Pub planned for old Tire factory.
Other Ohio Arts and Urbanism News
Columbus Dispatch Writer cycling and blogging across Ohio.
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh poet, Terrance Hayes named MacArthur fellow. (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood celebrates 200 years! (Essential Pittsburgh)
Does the city's high self-esteem create new problems? (Essential Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh cyclists concerned about redesign of Schenley Drive in Oakland (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
Artists from Mattress Factory discuss making it in Pittsburgh. (Pitt News)
Kurt Shaw reviews 2014 Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors annual @ Panza Gallery. (Tribune Review)
Pennsylvania DEP estimates there are 40 active underground coal fires burning across the state- including one under Pittsburgh Airport. (PA Independent)
West Virginia
Five free things to do in West Virginia in the fall. (Houston Chronicle)
Other Arts and Urbanism News
Indiana campus police acquire massive amounts of surplus military gear (JC online)
The Bronx is booming with boutique and luxury hotels (New York Daily News)
The new donut - decline of the inner ring suburbs. (Urbanophile)
"We can't have density there because there's not enough transit." (Human Transit)
How Germany's ban on Uber hurts the poor. (Business Week)
Others see Toronto as a success. Why don't we? (The Toronto Star)
Europe's big airlines no longer want to fly in Europe. (Business Week)
Wisconsin's famous Amish and Mennonite, Kolona, cheese "factory" closes due to government regulations.
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
8/21- 8/27 2014 Weekly Arts & Urbanism Roundup
Pittsburgh
Essential Pittsburgh Radio looks at the 110 year old soda pop tradition at the Natrona Bottling Company
Toonseum and Pittsburgh's Holocaust museum bring true stories of 5 Pittsburgh Holocaust survivors into comic form. Story on Essential Pittsburgh
980 Liberty Partners rebuts Heinz Endowment opposition to August Wilson Center Hotel
Essential Pittsburgh looks at recent metro walkability rankings
Pittsburgh area schools being outfitted with prison design features.
Brian O'Neall in Post Gazette: Militarization of police has its hidden costs.
Pittsburgh included in National Geographic article: "Nine Cities that Love Their Trees".
Mass Mob aims to boost attendance at Pittsburgh area Catholic churches.
Cleveland
Planners consider making center of St. Clair Avenue into a Bicycle Expressway!
Cleveland is making progress in attracting highly skilled young people.
Western Reserve Historical Society hosts exhibit of last Cleveland Browns world championship- 50 years ago.
Downtown Willoughby, Ohio hosts first Pig and Whiskey festival this weekend.
The Cleveland Blues Society is looking for a few good bands. (Deadline)
8/31 Deadline for Cleveland International Film Festival entries
Akron
Akron's new downtown cinema showing hard to find films and Akron-centric concessions.
Columbus
What Columbus is doing to try to control sprawl. (Seriously, the city now has a lot of infill development)
Architecture and Urbanism
Nine of the most beautiful buildings we ever tore down on Gizmodo: Including Pittsburgh's Wabash Terminal.
Seven excellent examples of repurposed bike infrastructure- Including Atlanta's Belt Line.
Is it time to get rid off parking minimums?
Real Clear Politics: Left behind in rural northwest Ohio.
Toll Roads once common in Northeast Pennsylvania
Nashville's lack of sidewalks sparks campaign
California state senator arrested for drunk driving hours after voting for bill limiting Uber car service.
Essential Pittsburgh Radio looks at the 110 year old soda pop tradition at the Natrona Bottling Company
Toonseum and Pittsburgh's Holocaust museum bring true stories of 5 Pittsburgh Holocaust survivors into comic form. Story on Essential Pittsburgh
980 Liberty Partners rebuts Heinz Endowment opposition to August Wilson Center Hotel
Essential Pittsburgh looks at recent metro walkability rankings
Pittsburgh area schools being outfitted with prison design features.
Brian O'Neall in Post Gazette: Militarization of police has its hidden costs.
Pittsburgh included in National Geographic article: "Nine Cities that Love Their Trees".
Mass Mob aims to boost attendance at Pittsburgh area Catholic churches.
Cleveland
Planners consider making center of St. Clair Avenue into a Bicycle Expressway!
Cleveland is making progress in attracting highly skilled young people.
Western Reserve Historical Society hosts exhibit of last Cleveland Browns world championship- 50 years ago.
Downtown Willoughby, Ohio hosts first Pig and Whiskey festival this weekend.
The Cleveland Blues Society is looking for a few good bands. (Deadline)
8/31 Deadline for Cleveland International Film Festival entries
Akron
Akron's new downtown cinema showing hard to find films and Akron-centric concessions.
Columbus
What Columbus is doing to try to control sprawl. (Seriously, the city now has a lot of infill development)
Architecture and Urbanism
Nine of the most beautiful buildings we ever tore down on Gizmodo: Including Pittsburgh's Wabash Terminal.
Seven excellent examples of repurposed bike infrastructure- Including Atlanta's Belt Line.
Is it time to get rid off parking minimums?
Real Clear Politics: Left behind in rural northwest Ohio.
Toll Roads once common in Northeast Pennsylvania
Nashville's lack of sidewalks sparks campaign
California state senator arrested for drunk driving hours after voting for bill limiting Uber car service.
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