Humor

Friday Funny: Smellvertising, Coming to a Bus Stop Near You

John Metcalfe reports on an advertising campaign appearing at bus stops across the UK featuring a fiberglass potato sculpture and a mysterious odor emitting button.
10 February 2012 - 2:00pm
The Atlantic Cities

The Most Frangrant Cities In The World

Chalder Burr, GQ's scent critic ranks the top ten most fragrant cities in the world.
5 February 2012 - 9:00am
Gentlemens Quarterley

Friday Funny: New York vs Boston, Which is the Better Sports Town?

On the eve of the Super Bowl, Richard Florida attempts to answer one of the most critical debates concerning metropolitan vitality today -- which is the superior sports town: Boston or New York?
3 February 2012 - 2:00pm
The Atlantic Cities

Friday Funny: Take the Kids to Napoleonland

A new theme park dedicated to all things Napoleon has been proposed for the area south of Paris by former French minister and history buff Yves Jégo, and is being touted as a rival to Disneyland, reports Henry Samuel.
27 January 2012 - 2:00pm
The Telegraph

Friday Funny: Pantsless in New York

The Daily News does its best to, ahem, "cover" this year's version of the annual New York City "No Pants Subway Ride." Beware, potentially NSFW.
20 January 2012 - 2:00pm
New York Daily News

Friday Funny: Residential Snowman Regulations

The planners at Hogle-Ireland have developed a handy set of Holiday Design Guidelines, including Minimum Chimney Access Requirements and Sleigh Parking and Access Standards.
23 December 2011 - 2:00pm
Hogle-Ireland

Potholes as Parks?

Writing in Grist, Chuck Wolfe provides a counterintuitive look at what to do about potholes and how they could become "the universal darlings of walkable urbanism".
17 December 2011 - 9:00am
Grist

Friday Funny: Pedestrian Haiku

NPR reports on NYC's new set of hilarious Haiku traffic street signs, that are meant to make drivers, bicyclists, and pedestrians more aware when sharing the street.
16 December 2011 - 2:00pm
NPR

Getting Residents Talking...With Cake!

McGill University planning students have built a cake replica of the neighborhood surrounding the Vendome Metro station in order to get residents to discuss the impacts of the construction and opening of a nearby "superhospital."
23 November 2011 - 6:00am
CBC

LA Street Slips Into The Pacific

Heavy rains Sunday afternoon exacerbated a subsiding roadway in the L.A. suburb of San Pedro, leaving gaping holes and exposing plumbing and other infrastructure housed beneath the street.
21 November 2011 - 2:00pm
Los Angeles Times

GTA V Trailer Satirizes LA Planning And Construction

The new edition of the Grand Theft Auto series will parody LA, including its idiosyncratic planning landscape, which will feature avaricious developers, activist NIMBYs, and a oceanside dwelling starchitect.
4 November 2011 - 2:00pm
Curbed LA

Casting A Robert Moses Biopic

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that HBO is working with Oliver Stone on a biopic of New York's famous master planner.
31 October 2011 - 12:00pm
The Atlantic

No Freeways, but what about those Viaducts? re:CONNECT Ideas Competition launched!

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 15:40

One of the bedrocks of the Vancouver city-building story, which we often refer to as "the most important decision Vancouver ever made", was the dramatic rejection of inner city freeways in the late 60's/early 70's.  This left our city frequently referenced as the only major North America city without a freeway. That decision led us down the very different and counter-intuitive path for livability, mobility, inner city density and urbanism that has come to be referred to as "the Vancouver Model".

Friday Fizzle: Bicycling is for Losers Who Don't Get Dates

A new GM ad implies that bikes aren't a sexy mode of transport for college kids.
14 October 2011 - 1:00pm
Grist

Warning: I'm a Terrible Neighbor

A Colorado man has put up a sign warning potential buyers about activities that occur at his house.
13 October 2011 - 8:00am
The Denver Post via 9 News

Friday Funny: Typo Results In 10,000 Acre Wyoming Skate Park

Doyle Redland reports on the accidental new construction, which has galvanized both sides of the preservation vs. access argument.
7 October 2011 - 2:00pm
The Onion

Getting Around Underground Could be Easier

Part of this week's Urban Design Week in New York City, design duo Original Champions of Design present three solutions to a weak wayfinding system currently in place in the city's subways.
23 September 2011 - 6:00am
Fast Company

Obama's Renewable Energy Blunder

The President went out of his way to support Solyndra's cutting-edge solar technology. When the company declares bankruptcy this week, Jon Stewart anticipates the gaffes by Obama's opposition in a very funny segment on The Daily Show.
16 September 2011 - 1:00pm
The Daily Show
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