Alexandra Lange
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Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
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Nolan Hicks
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Pretty good example of what happens when newspapers lay off their metro sections and housing reporters, but then decides they want to pontificate on city affairs
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Love this suggestion for more HS architecture and planning curriculum in NYC
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
// wrote about a graphic novel used in Chicago a few years ago
@newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
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Streetsblog NYC
3 days ago
Mayor Mamdani said over the weekend that he wants the Department of Transportation to add daylighting before someone has been killed rather than wait to ban parking at intersections after a completely avoidable tragedy.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/05/m...
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Mamdani: Daylighting Before Death! - Streetsblog New York City
The mayor wants the Department of Transportation to add daylighting before someone has been killed rather than wait to ban parking at intersections after a completely avoidable tragedy.
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/05/mamdani-daylighting-before-death
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Alissa Walker
3 days ago
I've received many messages about this over the last two weeks â people still read, reference, and link to these stories WRITTEN BY REAL REPORTERS who knew their cities better than anyone else. I figured a fix might have been delayed due to holiday breaks but this needs to be remedied immediately!
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You can do things
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Trades Union Congress
3 days ago
A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.
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I have never thought about the "architecture" of sexual consent before! "Kukla mentions '24-hr public transportation,' which allows people to 'be confident that they can leave safely and easily whenever they choose to.'"
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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(wrong link in prev post) MoMa is hiring a new R&D Fellow! Two-year position, focusing on public design programs, MA required
recruiting.ultipro.com/MUS1002MOMA/...
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I noticed this too and I realllllly hope it is temporary
@curbed.com
@nymag.com
because there is nothing else like it and it is half of my archive đ
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Christopher Hawthorne
5 days ago
Thanks Susan! Books on this list by
@paulgoldberger.bsky.social
@mlamster.bsky.social
@langealexandra.bsky.social
& many more
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Dorri
6 days ago
When our kids were young we stayed at Pleasant Hill Shaker Village in Kentucky and loved it!
shakervillageky.org
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Plan A Trip | Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill
Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill is a landmark destination that shares 3,000 acres of discovery in the spirit of the Kentucky Shakers, 3rd largest community
https://shakervillageky.org
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Sam Sacks
6 days ago
I have a brief notice in this weekend's WSJ of a new reprint edition of "Moby-Dick" with all of the iconic Rockwell Kent illustrations--something that's nice to have on the market, as previous editions can get very pricey
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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âMoby-Dickâ Review: Rockwell Kent Pictures Leviathan
Herman Melvilleâs American classic was given new life by Kentâs dramatic engravings.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/moby-dick-review-rockwell-kent-pictures-leviathan-e986aa1f?st=g7xgBA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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In the online queue for my Eras tour (Michael Heizer City tickets) and Iâm 931st in line one minute after reservations opened
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Iâve actually been trying to speak with an archivist at NASA for weeks ⊠was wondering if there was a political reason for no response
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler
6 days ago
Also this show in LA:
www.hauserwirth.com/make/cradled/
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CRADLED - Hauser & Wirth
Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by Partner and President Marc Payot
https://www.hauserwirth.com/make/cradled/
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New York Transit Museum announcing Old City Hall Station members only tours today -- smart!
www.nytransitmuseum.org/old-city-hall/
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Alissa Wilkinson
6 days ago
The Shaker Heritage Society (on the site of the original settlement) is also quite wonderful. Itâs basically directly behind the Albany Airport:
home.shakerheritage.org
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Alex Shephard
6 days ago
The Shaker Historical Society is wonderful and inexpensive to join as a member. They also have a great free newsletter
www.shakerhistory.org
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If this Ann Lee movie spurs more Shaker aesthetic appreciation, I recommend a) Hancock Shaker Village https://
hancockshakervillage.org
b) Canterbury Shaker Village
www.shakers.org
c) Shaker exhibit opening in Philly Jan 31
icaphila.org/exhibitions/...
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Carolina A. Miranda
10 days ago
If I was working the NYT end of year death list, I would write this one up so HARD. Rest in Power Cecilia Giménez, creator of Beast Jesus.
www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
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Cecilia Giménez, the painter who 'botched' the Ecce Homo dies aged 94
The Borja resident, who rose to fame in 2012 for her widely mocked restoration of ElĂas GarcĂa MartĂnez's fresco 'Ecco Homo', has died at the age of 94.
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/12/29/cecilia-gimenez-the-amateur-painter-who-botched-the-ecce-homo-fresco-restoration-dies-aged
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â„â€Kriston Capps
12 days ago
My main takeaway is that Trump's contractor (Clark Construction?) is doing him dirty by saying yes to his every whim
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In Ada Louise Huxtableâs original knives out review of the Kennedy Center she says DC âuses marble like cotton woolâ đ§
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Greg Pak
13 days ago
Think how many millions of public school students have created glorious holiday art with their own minds and hands this month. Weingarten could be sharing actual art and celebrating actual human kids whom the
@aft.org
is supposed to be serving. But no. She's sharing "A.i." garbage based on theft.
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Thanks to CityLabâs daily newsletter for resharing my Pulitzer-winning essays today
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
2025 really was the craziest year for me: won big prize, wrote new book, helped children get into the HS and college of their choice đ«
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How to Design Cities for Families, From Our Pulitzer-Winning Series
Look back at our Pulitzer Prize-winning series on designing cities for families.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-26/pulitzer-winning-essays-on-how-to-design-cities-for-families-citylab-daily
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I just need to say this out loud: I finished the draft of my next book. I love a deadline! Mood is this image by Suzanne Szasz of a quilting bee in Central Park in 1973 (year I was born).
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Edward Russell
18 days ago
ââThe beauty of the urban playground ⊠was that you could end up playing with so many different kids.â Whereas suburban backyards are, by definition, exclusive and limited in their social value.
@langealexandra.bsky.social
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Who Was That Yo-Yo ManâŠAnd How Did He Get Into My School?
We answer your questions about school yo-yo assemblies, sandboxes, and the bit of theater at the end of every rock concert: the encore.
https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2025/12/the-mysteries-of-sandboxes-encores-and-yo-yos-as-asked-by-listeners
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Canadian malls get citified: I spoke to
@shawnmicallef.bsky.social
for this story
@azuremagazine.bsky.social
www.azuremagazine.com/article/the-...
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The City Comes to the Mall
It still rhymes with sprawl, butthe mall of the future is becomingmore urban as densificationredevelopments signal both ourenduring love for these retailmeccas and the growing need tocapitalize on the...
https://www.azuremagazine.com/article/the-city-comes-to-the-mall/
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At times I have been mad that my dual tenured professor parents never taught me to have a back-up plan
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14yo has to write a 3-5 page screenplay and one of the rubric notes is âno dream sequencesâ đ this teacher has seen too much
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray
22 days ago
motorbike schmotorbike, apparently my midlife crisis is manifesting as an irrational need for a rolodex
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I said abolish and I fucking meant it
23 days ago
For comparison, this is Christopher Anderson's photography when he's NOT trolling for everything he's worth. Every choice made in the photos of this administration is a choice. It's fucking art, is what it is.
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I've been trying to help our longtime nanny get a job and I can attest that this is true. People want *so much*
www.thecut.com/article/nyc-...
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
22 days ago
as the hosts hint that they would like to be invited to watch the movie at the white house, one asks "is there a movie theater in the white house?" no, dumbass, there is not. It was in the east wing.
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Doug Gordon
22 days ago
One surprising piece of research I found when writing the book was that while the number of kids biking & walking to school has dropped by a lot since 1969, the number of kids living within a mile of their school has only gone down by about 15%.
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14yo is verrrrry mad he has to get up at 6AM to go to school while 18yo is home from college and sleeping until 1PM. 6 week break vs. 1 week break as well.
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I'm no luxury shopper but I'm buying secondhand LL Bean! I also think contemporary jewelry is SO trend-driven, you're much better off browsing second-hand and figuring out what you really like.
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Phil Lewis
23 days ago
Pauline Copes Johnson, a descendant of Harriet Tubman, has died at 98. She spent a lifetime guarding that legacy from the small city where Tubman spent her final years
www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/11/t...
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Wanamaker's lives on as mixed-use! A galleria + housing
www.archpaper.com/2025/12/pau-...
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I'm on Decoder Ring this week talking about one of my favorite topics. So simple, so perfect. The sandbox!
slate.com/podcasts/dec...
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Justin Davidson says Mamdani should look at ... courtyard housing!
www.curbed.com/article/mamd...
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"Asawa devoted much of her time not to making art about mothering, but to scaling up her artist-mothering to citywide levelâwhat Troeller calls 'caretaking in public.'â
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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Rare copy of the original DR book for sale! "This book tells the story of DR, told by the people who were there. (And there are a lot still around. People are always coming in and telling us about working there.)"
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Any Boston folks know how the renovation plans for Madison Park HS know how they plan to handle the Breuer buildings?
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/12/m...
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Alissa Walker
24 days ago
Grand Avenue has LA's best architecture clumped haphazardly along a very bleak street. Yet Frank Gehry had a vision to change that. "You close that piece of Grand Avenue, put some chairs out there and you've got something special," he said. "We're not just building buildings, we're building places"
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The Grand scheme
This is the downtown that Frank Gehry wanted. When will LA's leaders give it to us?
https://www.torched.la/the-grand-scheme/
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Amanda Kolson Hurley
26 days ago
I also got to run by my favorite oddball place in Baltimore, Safety City, a mini faux streetscape used to teach children how to navigate
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How much is a 6-7 foot tree on the streets of Brooklyn this year? Iâm sending the teens to get one but I need a ballpark figure.
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Lincoln Michel
28 days ago
I think that's right because I instantly think of this is "Spencer's Gifts humor" that pre-teens and teens found edgy when they went to the mall. Back when malls existed...
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LOL this is the most real comment on this story about the NYC HS process "Of all the truly hellacious admissions processes the DOE subjects families to, the high school process is the least painful. The good news is you will be battle tried for college admissions."
nymag.com/intelligence...
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So offensive to design workers on multiple levels
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Streetsblog NYC
29 days ago
"As mothers, our worst nightmare is a car killing a child just for trying to cross the street," write
@powers4queens.bsky.social
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@cmjuliewon.bsky.social
. "Kids are the cityâs most vulnerable residents, and the status quo endangers them ... They deserve universal daylighting."
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The Children of New York City Deserve Universal Daylighting - Streetsblog New York City
Daylighting is common sense: drivers and pedestrians shouldnât be invisible to one another. And in most other places, they arenât.
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/12/10/nyc-children-deserve-daylighting
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