This Big City

How can people contribute to the development of sustainable cities? (and does public karaoke count?) We take a look at 5 of the best blog posts on this topic in the first of our recaps of 2012.

4 months ago 48 notes

Our latest post looks at ways to get strangers to interact in cities. Any ideas?

8 months ago 72 notes

enochliew:

Into The Flowers by Michael Rucinski

A flower bed where people can lie down, relax, chat, and get to know other people.

(via urbanfunscape)

8 months ago 127 notes

We’re trying to re-engineer our cities for sustainability, but should we instead be trying to re-engineer people?

9 months ago 79 notes

More on creating safer streets on This Big City.

9 months ago 11 notes

“Over the years I’ve developed a catalog of one-line utterances that are 99% effective in terms of replacing urban anonymity with affection. I’ve tested each line thousands of times over thousands of blocks across multiple cities.”

—	Jon Cotner on interacting with strangers. Check out his article here. 「多年來，我收集許多能在城市裡與陌生人攀談的一句話，在99%的情況都能讓氣氛變得融洽，每句話都曾在多座城市試驗數千次。」 Jon Cotner談論與陌生人互動的經驗，他的全文請見此。

1 year ago 14 notes

“Despite best intentions, strategies to make cities more sustainable have been notoriously difficult to implement in practice. The problem is not only technological. It is also social, economic, and political: How do you make people change, or at least modify, their everyday behaviors?”

—	Jeanne Haffner in New Ideas for the Old Problem of Sustainable Cities

1 year ago 11 notes

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“Over the years I’ve developed a catalog of one-line utterances that are 99% effective in terms of replacing urban anonymity with affection. I’ve tested each line thousands of times over thousands of blocks across multiple cities.”

“Despite best intentions, strategies to make cities more sustainable have been notoriously difficult to implement in practice. The problem is not only technological. It is also social, economic, and political: How do you make people change, or at least modify, their everyday behaviors?”

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