Friday Fun
Friday Fun: Bikes and Beer Take to the Water
Hold my beer while I pedal this boat around Lake St. Clair.
Friday Fun: Now You Can Race to Keep the Trains Running on a Mobile Phone
The Mini Metro transit planning game has been around in all its simple and frustrating glory for a few years now, but it only recently became available as a mobile app.
Friday Fun: Mapping a Decade of Philadelphia Block Parties
David Bowie and Mick Jagger approved.
Friday Fun: Take the Coloring Book Map Quiz
Pop quiz: Can you recognize a major city based on an outline map?
Friday Happy Hour: A Beer Pipeline in Belgium
What was once a "pipe dream" will soon be reality.
Friday Fun: Can You Name These City Skylines?
Pop quiz hotshot: can you name the city by looking at silhouettes of their skylines?
Pop Quiz: Can You Recognize Cities by Their Bike Lane Network?
Friday fun in the form of a mapping challenge from the Washington Post's Wonkblog.
Pop Quiz: Can You Name Cities from their Transit Maps?
What better way to wind down from a long week thinking about cities and maps and transportation than by taking a quiz to show off your knowledge of cities and maps and transportation?
Friday Fun: 'Walkblock' and a New Urban Lexicon
Writing for Greater Greater Washington, Matt Johnson has compiled a list of neologisms to describe the unique encounters of contemporary city living.
My Future City is Houston?
The BMW Guggenheim Lab has released an online urban planning game called "Urbanology," which asks a serious of questions to determine the type of city you think is the future.
Fanciful Bike Storage Mounts on Tall Buildings
Design firm Manifesto Architecture is proposing a unique vertical bike storage system that can take advantage of underused, slim spaces like alleys. Another neat aspect: the rack is powered by a stationery bike.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
Eagle County Government
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Nashville Planning Department
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
Journal of the American Planning Association
