Awesome video of New Yorkers enjoying car-free Times Square

Check out a great video sounding out real New Yorkers about the new Times Square from Animal, one New York’s culture magazines. Opinions On A Car-Free Times Square from ANIMALnewyork.com on Vimeo.

Coastal Living Idea Cottage – Video from the site

Take a peek at the beginnings of the 2009 Coastal Living Cottage Home and learn more about what goes on behind the walls. 2009 Coastal Living Idea House | Part I from I’On Group on Vimeo.

Parking Solutions?

Some of them are – and some of them, well, are far more creative than they are useful.  Insert tongue in cheek here. A couple of highlights… Take a look at the post from weburbanist.com!

New Mixson Photo Slideshow

See our greatest Mixson pics, including how Mixson dressed up for Christmas! Find more photos like this on Mixson

Top 5 TNDs in the Southeast to watch

While there are, of course, far more than 5 TNDs (traditional neighborhood developments) in the Southeastern U.S. that are innovative and interesting enough to keep a close eye on, these are the five that have most attracted my notice: 1.  Davidson, NC.  Ok, this isn’t actually a TND – it’s a whole entire town, which [...]

50 strange, bizarre, and beautiful buildings

There’s a list of 50 on the website, but here are a few of my favorites: Hang Nga Guesthouse, Vietnam.  Fun because it’s like a scary wizard’s house who has a giant giraffe for a pet. The Stone House in Portugal.  Fun because it looks like a hobbit-house…only way bigger. The Mushroom House in Cincinnati.  [...]

Treehugger’s 10 strangest forms of alternative transportation

Want to see a Couchbike, a pedal-powered pub, and something called the AquaSkipper?  Of course you do!  Click here to see Treehugger’s gallery of the bizarre, the well-meant, and the ultra-cool in human powered transportation.

Small Homes that Rock

(this idea comes from Chris at Blue Ion – thanks Chris!) We’ve done a few posts on this topic in the past, as cool or bizarre tiny houses make their tiny ways across our radar screen – there’s the Tumbleweed Tiny House, the “Greensburg Cubed” experiment, the 409 s.f. backwoods cabin, our own one-day-only (Earth [...]

New Mixson Photos!

How far we’ve come…

Notes from Abroad…

Well, after a month spent on a Brazilian-Argentinian honeymoon, I’m back in the office and back on the blog!  Naturally, I kept an eye out for any interesting urbanist touches throughout our travels, and I’m happy to report that I saw many.  We traveled to Salvador Bahia, in Brazil, and Puerto Iguazu and Buenos Aires [...]