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List of 10 emptiest US cities

Photo: Getty Images This isn’t a list of the most abandoned cities in America, although it could roughly be translated in that way. It’s a list instead of the 10 emptiest cities in the U.S. in regards to rental vacancies … Continue reading

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Urbanized: a documentary about the design of modern cities

Gary Hustwit of Helvetica and Objectified fame is wrapping up a new movie project called Urbanized about the design of modern cities. The film is set to have its US premiere in NYC on September 20th and is poised to … Continue reading

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American according to Twitter

Inbox Q sifted through a bunch of Twitter profiles to find out alternate nicknames for people’s home cities. This is the map of the U.S. according to Twitter.

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Tour Wrist

A couple of weeks ago, Simon told me to download this iPad/iPhone app called Tour Wrist. The app uses the gyroscope in the iPad 2 and iPhone to give you an extremely immersive experience viewing a number of different locations … Continue reading

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China’s empty city

Didn’t get enough of ghost town porn from that SBS Dateline report on China’s empty cities? Well, then you’ll want to watch the video above from Al Jazeera English about the same topic. I find that this video here explains … Continue reading

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Video of China’s ghost cities and malls

SBS Dateline published this report on China’s alarming real estate bubble that has created mega-malls and developments that are essentially ghost towns. The problem lies partially in China’s target GDP growth which dictates a certain amount of growth per year. … Continue reading

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