World Without Us, another foray into speculative extinction, a popular online subject. Just how would the world fare in the absence of the human race? The New Scientist published just such a piece last year, 'Imagine Earth Without People', which speculated that our presence wouldn't take long to vanish. Related, how many people would be needed to sustain humanity? Something that proponents of space colonies no doubt had to contend with (related, Space Settlements: A Design Study. Put a Stanford Torus in Google Earth).

All about The Mechanical Turk / Arquitectura HOY, a weblog / the Goldfinger Project by Arni Haraldsson, at Space Studios / The Sir Basil Spence Archive Project, 'celebration of a modern architect, 1907-1976' / the 7" single is back / 'Reminiscenses of a Book Inscription Collector', at ephemera.

Everyone Forever, visual sampling, including a Voxel chair by EZCT Architecture and Design Research, and flights, a link to a this amazing image by superlocal / a history of lingerie / the Biography Project / an alternative space, Sheriff's Safety Town, in Shreveport, Louisiana, a proposed 'child-sized town with miniature streets, buildings, crosswalks and working traffic lights offers the perfect setting for bicycle, pedestrian and vehicular safety instruction'.

Download old issues of Arts and Architecture (related, archived issues of Design and Form) / a convenient truth, a weblog / Walking the Streets of Forest Hill, SE23, a weblog / off message, a weblog / small drawings, and paintings / Fine Books and Collections, the weblog / Old Town, very retro clothes. posted by things at 23:58 / 0 comments