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Kolam (via Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today is OK)
Kolam is a rangoli traditionally composed of geometric lines and shapes, drawn around a grid pattern of dots. It is drawn by south Indian women with rice or chalk powder in front of their homes.

Underworld | James Gulliver Hancock Multiple full page illustrations for children’s book exploring different world underground. Everything from Ancient Egyptian Crypts, to WW2 tunnels and theoretical underground life on Mars.
(via zuloarkcollective)

Copenhagen is doubling the space for bikes on a number of its suburban trains to meet growth stimulated by the switch to free bike travel.
Full Story: Bicycle Victoria
¿Podremos ver algo así en los próximos buses de transmilenio?
(via jorgejorge)
What on Earth! by Les Drew & by Kaj Pindal, National Film Board of Canada
What on Earth! enviado por @laperiferia

More stop-&-frisk data examined & mapped by the NYT in this August 2012 article: “In Police-Stop Data, Pockets Where Force Is Used More Often”
The city map snapshotted above is here. The four boxed hotspots—in terms of numbers of stops (size of circles) & percentage involving force (color of circles)—are zoomed in on:
(via fuckyeahcartography)

What Exactly Is A Smart City? | Co.Exist
Having worked in the smart cities space for several years now, I am encouraged by the growth of the sector and the pace of technological advancements being developed for urban environments. However, I believe that the smart-cities movement is being held back by a lack of clarity and consensus around what a smart city is and what the components of a smart city actually are.
While some people continue to take a narrow view of smart cities by seeing them as places that make better use of information and communication technology (ICT), the cities I work with (and most of the participants in the #smartchat, a monthly Twitterchat about smart cities held on the first Wednesday of each month) all view smart cities as a broad, integrated approach to improving the efficiency of city operations, the quality of life for its citizens, and growing the local economy.
Later this year, I’ll publish my annual rankings of smart cities here on Co.Exist. In order to improve them, I have been working on a new rubric for smart cities, that I call the Smart Cities Wheel.
(via smartercities)
Beautiful infographic: we like the use of patterns/hatches.
via Parks of the World & Co.Design
(via landscapearchitecture)

A gouache painting by Claude Cholat, one of the twenty-one wine merchants on the official list of the vainqueurs de la Bastille and an eyewitness to the storming of the fortress on 14 July 1789.
Cholat was in the crowd of about 900 citizens who arrived at the Bastille on that day. He reportedly manned one of the cannons brought in by the revolutionaries (perhaps the silver Siamese piece that had been given to Louis XIV?).
Excedentes
Iniciativa que reflexiona sobre lo que sucede con los Excedentes alimentarios en la ciudad, explicada por vic