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Notes in Time Out
This week’s Time Out New York is running six pictures of Japanese manhole covers I took in 2002. It’s part of the cover story on “how to make New York better by stealing the best ideas from other cities.”
The photo editor found this old blog post and contacted me.
(And seeing it in print, I think the first photo is upside down. I always thought it was birds against the sky, but now I think it might be flowers against a river...)
21 July 2006 | All City, 2
Back in town and still catching up, but here’s an quick update on a recent blog item:
On Monday, June 5, 2006, the US Conference of Mayors adopted the ‘2030 Challenge,’ a resolution committing to a timeline for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by all new and renovated city buildings to the point that all new city buildings are carbon-neutral by 2030.
On May 31, 2006, the City of Santa Fe became the first city in the US to formally adopt the ‘2030 Challenge’.
The 78,000 member American Institute of Architects formally adopted the ‘2030 Challenge’ in January 2006.
All City
The American Institute of Architects National Government Advocacy Team and Architecture 2030 are urging the US Conference of Mayors to adopt Resolution 50 which sets a goal of carbon-neutral city buildings by 2030 — that is, new city buildings will use no fossil-fuel or greenhouse gas emitting energy sources to operate.
The orgs are asking people to call their mayors this week before the meeting in early June. Background information, talking points, sample letters, and contact info up http://www.architecture2030.org/news/index.php
The text of the resolution reads like a nice little manifesto. Click below for the full text.
And how rare and wonderful to see a professional association engaging with progressive public policy!
Guerilla Wayfinding, 2
Wow! Three weeks ago I posted a modest proposal for a guerilla wayfinding campaign, painting compass stencils at the exits of subway stations for disoriented commuters.
Today at the 8th Avenue L exit I found this:
Here’s a hi-res photo someone posted to Flickr of the same compass at the Bleeker 6 exit. I found more at Astor Place and Union Square. Is someone reading this blog? And will they go all city?
Guernica Stencils
Inspired by the call of Visual Resistance and John Unger, here’s an attempt at a few Guernica stencils:
Click on an image above for a printer-friendly PDF.
They could probably be simplified further, but here’s a first go.
Free to download and distrbute!
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