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Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2022 At\u00a0FastCompany<\/a>, urban designer\u00a0Ryan Gravel speaks to power of catalyst projects to revitalize urban communities. He cites the example of the Atlanta BeltLine, a 22-mile rail route turned linear park, as a possible model.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0At\u00a0The Atlantic Cities<\/a>, Allison Arieff reflects on the industrial re-design of NYC’s Times Square. Architect Craig Dykers muses, \u201cThere\u2019s that film noir quality that some people have about Times Square\u2026 and the grittiness of the street is a part of it… It\u2019s not taking its cues from pretty little things in Europe or something. It\u2019s kind of like the heart of New York City. It\u2019s a heavy, muscular thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Thieves in North Beaver Township, Pennsylvania, raised the (re-)bar this past week when they stole a 50 by 20 foot bridge for scrap metal. The bridge dated back to the early 1900s and was primarily used for rail traffic. (CNN<\/a>) \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Ross Douthat at the\u00a0New York Times<\/a> uses Steve Jobs flair for cultivating beauty in modernity as a set of parallel instructions for the world’s city builders and policy makers: “From the Apple store to \u201cThe Incredibles,\u201d Jobs revived the romance of modernity \u2014 the assumption, shared by Victorian science-fiction writers and space-age dreamers alike, that the world of the future should be more glamorous than the present.”<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The World Monuments Fund is taking care to preserve the world’s best brutalist architecture. Jonathan Glancey at\u00a0the Guardian<\/a> notes that preservation “takes time … and the danger is that while buildings go through unfashionable phases they are in danger of falling into disrepair, and being demolished.”<\/p>\n

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