You know how once a month or so Weekend Reading starts off with me getting all excited and writing something along the lines of "OMG you guys this week is SO GR8!! Read all of these they are AMAZIN! FURRILZ!"? Well, this is one of those weeks.Read all of these. They are amazing. For reals.
ITEM ONE: Tijuana's enterprising spirit influences the design of a new affordable housing project in Hudson, NY.
ITEM TWO: Airoots features another great post about resistance to the Dharavi Redevelopmet Project in Mumbai, this time focusing on the efforts of the fiercely independent neighborhood of Koliwada.
ITEM THREE: Hayley Richardson on the obnoxious futility of twenty- and thirtysomethings bemoaning the loss of "authentic New York," a place that most of them never really knew in the first place.
ITEM FOUR: All About Cities pulls some great Lewis Mumford quotes, including the following gem: "The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity."
ITEM FIVE: A spectacular and almost disturbingly detailed map of London, reimagined as an island. (Photo credit)
ITEM SIX: Part IV highlights some recent articles about the Untergunther, a subgroup within les UX, which is itself a group of people "who are on a mission to uncover and exploit the city’s neglected cultural underworld."
ITEM SEVEN: AdaptiveReuse.net is a blog about creative adaptive reuse projects around the world (natch).
See, what did I tell you? That's some good stuff right there. See you next week!
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