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Check this out. Take a ride on a suspended monorail in Japan. Some quirky transport infrastructure. The video is hypnotic and some of the routes it takes are quite exciting.

#public transport #japan #monorail #brockway #ogdenville #north haverbrook

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#urbanism #art #street art

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On this day in music history: April 6, 1956 - The Capitol Tower in Hollywood, CA is dedicated. The newly opened headquarters for Capitol Records, located at 1750 Vine Street (near the famous corner of Hollywood and Vine) is a thirteen story circular building by architect Welton Beckett (Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Pan Pacific Auditorium, The Beverly Hilton), designed to look like a giant stack of records on a spindle. The blinking light on top of the building spells out the word “Hollywood” in Morse Code since the buildings’ official opening. It was temporarily changed to blink “Capitol 50” to celebrate the labels’ fiftieth anniversary in 1992. Since then it has returned to its original message. Besides  the labels business offices, it also houses three world class recording studios (with echo chambers designed by musician and technical innovator Les Paul) that remain highly in demand to this day. Also known as “the house that Nat built” (after musician Nat King Cole), The Capitol Tower becomes an iconic structure in Hollywood, and is added to the List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles in November of 2006.

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Pyramid of Austerlitz, built by bored Napoleonic troops in 1804 (Woudenberg, the Netherlands)

Via  harrymuesli on  Reddit

#pyramid #austerlitz #netherlands #architecture #landscape #europe

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North Mall, Cork City

#cork city #ireland

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A sole needle of cityscape, a television tower pokes out of groundfog, Pecs, Hungary.

Image credit: Tamas Soki/AP

#cities #urbanism #urban landscape #landscape #architecture #skysraper #hungary #pecs

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Jeff Speck: Four Road Diets

#Vimeo #jeffspeck #design #street #walkablecity #walkable #computergraphics #bikelanes #unity #bicycle #infrastructure #animated #cycletracks #gameengine #3d #real-time #visualization

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Flatland II: Warped Photographic Landscapes

Series by Aydın Büyüktaş

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A short video about the The Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit system

#public transport #Morgantown #tom scott #engineering

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#cities #new york #architecture #art and design #us news

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#Important

A Visual Size Comparison of a Star Wars Super Star Destroyer and Manhattan

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John Atkinson Grimshaw’s Canny Glasgow, 1887 (via here)

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Something he has “dreamed of capturing for decades,” Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet has released a stunning set of images that captures his hometown of New York in a way that has never before been seen. Taken from a nauseating 7500-feet above the city, Laforet’s “Gotham 7.5K” series reveals the unrelenting, pulsating energy that radiates from the Big Apple’s city grid.

#New York #Urbanism