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The Further Adventures of Li’l Bruce Wayne Often disregarded as part of any continuity, Li’l Bruce Wayne was a long-running series of light-hearted comic books aimed at children, detailing the life of a young, fantastically wealthy Bruce Wayne (known in the series as “The Happiest Kid On Earth”) in the...
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@ goodspeedupdate- Planning a Fake City Our novels, films, and urban planning textbooks are filled with imaginary cities. Whether utopias or dystopias, most of these fictional cities imagine what a city could be at its best — or worst. However, few describe an average city, let alone map out a typical 1,011 square mile...
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:: Michelle Lord’s “Future Ruins” :: Running The Numbers, An American Self-Portrait :: Going to the Opera in the Year 2000 (1882) :: Thomas the NJ Transit Train :: Pictures of Insanely Complex Intersections What are some City Desk contributors up to lately, you ask?...
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:: Fake Radio Program to Appear on Real Radio Station :: Last summer for Coney Island as we know it? :: Google Maps Street View :: Boston once again goes crazy about a ‘bomb threat’
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:: TCD Contributor Craig Gaines has a piece in this week’s LA Weekly about the fires in Griffith Park. :: Thirteenth Ave. Retail Market: 1965 :: New York in 1960 (1935) :: Gallery of Anti-Sit Technology :: A Note Placed in the Pay Envelope of Billy “The Piano Man” Joel...
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:: Propaganda posters from the Great War of the Californias. The Great War of the Californias was virtually forgotten only months, actually only days, after it had ended, whenever that was. Its dates are uncertain, lost in a haze of mass hysterical amnesia over this traumatic collective memory, complicated by the compulsive viewing...
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:: What’s Next for US Cities Is a backlash to suburbanization? Since high density was the only option for cities for millennia, I view it as the pendulum swinging back. Demographics are a major factor. In Washington, D.C., where I live, there’s a baby boom going...
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At boingboing.net: Will Eisner’s New York – like Jane Jacobs in graphic form This is a glorious book. The longer pieces — “New York,” “The Building,” “City People,” “Invisible People” — are fully-formed things, whole stories that manage to put an entire novel’s worth of feeling into a few short pages. The vignettes are...
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For the 29th consecutive year, none of the area’s colleges or universities made it into the NCAA tournament or NIT. Our condolences, but at least for the 30th anniversary next year, there should be some sort of dinner or party. As everyone is probably busy with their brackets today, here are some links: ::...
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A couple of months ago, I had to rent a car and drive out to the western part of the state on business, as the company wouldn’t spring for a train ticket. On hour four of my trip, tooling down the interstate, I had the radio set on scan, flipping between the frequencies, looking...
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