tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7802292.post-69575569029752205802008-04-04T14:16:00.000-07:002008-04-11T07:16:15.957-07:00<img src="http://lifewithoutbuildings.net/080404_giantLenin.jpg"/><br /><ul><br /><li> It's another contribution to <a href="http://lifewithoutbuildings.net/2008/02/architecture-foundation-recently.html">Giant Statue Fridays</a>, as <a href="http://englishrussia.com/?p=1846">Giant Lenin takes a cruise through Budapest.</a><br /><li>A Daily Dose of Architecture takes a look at <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2008/04/ae3-habitable-bridges.html">habitable bridges</a> and we realize that Steven Holl is having way too much fun in China.<br /><li><a href="http://thewhereblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/blogedanken-public-poll.html">Where's Blogedanken entries reimagine the urban landscape.</a> Favorite idea: "<span style="font-style:italic;">Wireless capable crosswalks." </span> That's it. Now if only there was no explanation, that simple phrase could be read so many ways.<br /><li>"Urbexing" may sound vaguely sexual, but <a href="http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/04/01/re-valuing-urban-space/">Space & Culture assures us of its legitimacy as an urban subculture:</a><blockquote><span style="font-style:italic;">At the core of the subculture lies a special relationship that participants experience with physical spaces and the material infrastructure left behind by the waxes and wanes of a capitalist industrialized economy. </span></blockquote>&#183 The Magazine On Urbanism, otherwise known as MONU, is <a href="http://www.monu-magazine.com/monu/monu9/monu9%20call%20for%20submissions.htm">looking for submissions for their next issue</a>, "Exotic Urbanism." The increasingly ambiguous definition of "exotic" should be embraced, as both mind-stretching speculation and speculative mind-stretching are welcome.</ul>Jimmy Stamphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818007762978195098noreply@blogger.com