CityKin
Blog URL http://www.citykin.com
Located Cincinnati, Ohio USA
Tags Urban Parents, new urbanism, historic buildings, streetcars, light rail, public transit, public swimming pools, cincinnati, over-the-rhine
Downtown Cincinnati Parents, Urbanism, Families, Old Buildings, new urbanism, historic buildings, public transit, public schools, Ohio, streetcars, light rail, public pools, public parks
Latest Blog Posts
- Organic Walking Paths of Brasilia on Nov 25, 2009 in maps walking
It is amazing how many people are using Google Maps to make interesting studies or articles, and how many artists are using Google Streetview for photography projects. Here, a blogger notices the footpaths that have evolved in a city designed to hav...
- Mumford Quote of the Day on Nov 24, 2009 in quotes
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgo...
- More Balluminaria on Nov 24, 2009 in events Cincinnati Parks
We went to Balluminaria again this year, and the weather was better, so the crowd was bigger. How do I know this? By the very scientific observation that we arrived sooner this year, and parked farther away.The event involves the lighting of Hot Air...
- Balluminaria on Nov 22, 2009 in Mt Adams events
The kids liked this event more than I thought they would: ...
- Mumford Quote of the Day on Nov 21, 2009 in quotes
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. -Lewis Mumford...
- Totalitarian Modernists on Nov 21, 2009 in modern architecture architects
"Le Corbusier wanted to be to the city what pasteurization is to cheese."-Theodore Dalrymple, The Architect as TotalitarianLe Corbusier’s baleful influence, The City Journal...
- Evolution of a Block on Nov 20, 2009 in urban renewal
When I was looking through the Sanford Insurance maps of the Washington Park area, I was struck by the fact that there is a tendency to remove whole blocks of smaller, diverse buildings and replace them with much larger, single use structures. Then...
