Monday News Roundup

Happy Monday morning! Peruse the links below for the latest in architecture, art, and design!

The City of the Future (Switchboard)

This year, TED's annual award went to not an individual but to the city of the future... in which more than ten billion people on planet Earth must somehow live sustainably. 

A little game that shows you how public transportation works... (Wikispaces) 

The goal of the Bus Meister game and the Public Transport Priority Best Practices wiki is to help educate non professionals about the importance of public transport priority. 

What happens when you give kids thousands of stickers? (PoppyTalk)

Artist Yayoi Kusama gave children thousands of colored dot stickers as an invitation to collorabate in the transformation of her latest interactive installation.

Super Low-Impact Straw Bale Cafe (Inhabitat)

A perfect example of the trend of straw bale building, which is rapidly making a name for itself as a viable construction method...

2011: A Year That Revealed The Power of Place (Sustainable Cities Collective)

This week, TIME magazine named The Protester its Person of the Year. He would have never earned that distinction had he not been so visible, had he protested from home.

The new economy: work closer, live smaller, connect better (Switchboard)

The Urban Land Institute’s latest forecast for the real estate industry has lots of hopeful news for the environment; perhaps also some sobering news for the economy. 

How coffee and cycling helped shape our Greenways 

In order to create a web of routes within walking distance of every resident - Tilo Driessen mapped all the places in the city where they served espresso, and all the bike shops...

A Happy, Flourishing City With No Advertising (Good Cities)

In 2006, the mayor of São Paulo, Brazil, Gilberto Kassab, passed the "Clean City Law," which banned every billboard, poster and bus ad in the city.

Smaller, more sustainable living with neighborhoods that fit in (Switchboard)

Kaid Benfield discusses sustainable living patterns and the need for a diversity of choices within a community given the recent heyday of sprawl. 

Seattle Residents Save $12K a year by Taking Transit (Publicola)

A new report by the American Public Transit Association places Seattle in fourth place on its list of what various cities’ residents can save from taking public transit to work.

Brooklyn's Secret Subway Vent (Sustainable Cities Collective)

This "house" in Brooklyn is actually "the world's only Greek Revival subway ventilator," a secret entrance to the 4/5 line, and disguised emergency exit.