NYC
Arcade Fire live in New York City, February 17th, 2007 »
You can download an MP3 of the concert, which sounds great, but NPR annoys by not including any metadata.
London tops a list of best underground rail transit systems, followed by Paris and Moscow »
I bet Chicago would top a similar list of elevated rail, and would include Vancouver.
TransLink Trolley Rides Through Downtown New York City
Either that or it was the set of Fantastic Four 2 filming in Vancouver.
Traffic Jam in New York City
Either that or it was the set of Fantastic Four 2 filming in Vancouver.
"The situation at 395 Hudson is as a kind of tribal struggle" »
Describes the recent confrontations between rappers and their posses outside Hot 97 in NYC.
Brian Libby compares Portland to New York City and Washington, D.C. »
The comparison sounds a lot like my comparison of Vancouver to Toronto.
Trevor Boddy on "the urban design strategies used to foster socially mixed high density housing in Lower Manhattan and Vancouver »
Vancouver, requiring developers to build amenities for dwellers of the high-rises they build, has been the darling of urban design practitioners recently.
Vancouver has two area codes, get used to it »
I have a 778 number, and always wondered about whether the area code was a turnoff (like in the Seinfeld episode with the new area code for Manhattan).
Peter MacLeod thinks 311 is a module for connecting citizens with their government »
Focusing almost exclusively on New York City, it's mostly interesting because Vancouver--and those studying the city--often has NYC as its counterpart for urban planning.
The most important changes in American dialect are happening at the sound, not slang, level »
The way people talk in New York City is indicative of social class, not where they live in the city, says William Labov.
Blake Nelson says "it's a lot easier to get laid in New York than in Portland" »
I call bullshit on that, but I'm not really sure why.
Julianne has some stats on the Lady Sovereign show at the Knitting Factory in NYC »
"Amount of bloggers blogging the amount of bloggers in attendance: 2992992299292"
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