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Links: Future, Malls, Decline

:: Man of Action (1955) Animated plea for urban renewal connected with 1950s efforts to “redevelop” American city centers. (Prelinger Archives) :: Our Urban Future Sometime in 2008, the world will cross an invisible but momentous milestone: the point at…

Something that you should watch

Invisible City (Supermasterpiece.com) A 5-minute black and white noir-ish television program about a city in which everyone is invisible. Sadly, it only lasted two episodes. Of course (as we’re always looking on the bright side at The City Desk), this…

True things

The audiobook version of John Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise is available for free from the iTunes store. It is an excellent book and I can assure you that it is every bit as accurate and true as the…

Linking to things

:: Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl @ the San Jose Museum of Art. Article, Metropolis :: Big Urbanism Jane Jacobs’s crusade against architectural master plans, combined with a growing historic-preservation movement and the fall of heroic high modernism,…

A real fake city

For his film Playtime, director Jacques Tati built a fake city. [@ BLDGBLOG] During pre-production, “Tati visited many factories and airports throughout Europe before his cinematographer Jean Badal came to the conclusion that he needed to build his own skyscraper.…