Monday, February 4, 2013

The Most Expensive Cities

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/04/travel/cost-of-living-2013/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

http://money.ca.msn.com/investing/canadian-business/south-korea-is-headed-for-big-trouble-its-only-hope-is-immigration

http://jfdatalinks.blogspot.ca/2013/01/greatest-cities-in-human-history.html

Subterranean Abduction

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/crime/article/Authorities-storm-Alabama-bunker-rescue-young-boy-4248281.php

One man kills another man & then abducts a boy & takes him into a bunker. Had the perpetrator lived, he would have been facing charges for murder_and_child_abduction. This guy would have had a toilet for a headboard, for the rest of his life. Arguments could certainly be made that his beard didn't necessarily make him violent, but this still ended up being another case of bearded violence.


New Orleans and the Superdome .:.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Superdome#Reopening_after_Katrina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Superdome#Super_Bowl_XLVII_power_failure:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/feb/04/roger-goodell-power-outage-denies-beyonce,
http://www.kten.com/story/20957626/super-bowl-superdome-power-surges-showcases-unreliability-of-power

http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/123834/The_Super_Bowl_2013_Illuminati_RitualSacrifice_MIRRORED/?aid=Avimoas

http://allilluminati.wordpress.com, http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/pt7.htm,
http://naijagists.com/illuminati-members-exposed-signs-symbols-of-illuminati-2012,
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4230.Proof_of_the_Illuminati,
http://www.globaltruth.net/ModerIlluminatarchitecture.htmlhttp://vigilantcitizen.com/educate-yourself

http://naijagists.com/the-illuminati-signs-and-symbols-revealed,
https://www.google.ca/search?q=the+Illuminati+sign+during+halftime

http://vigilantcitizen.com/hidden-knowledge/the-order-of-the-illuminati,
https://www.google.ca/search?q=the+Illuminati+signhttp://fusionanomaly.net/illuminati.html,
http://www.youtube.com/user/111TRUTH111?v=iBzW9NwKcpY&lr=1
This esoteric symbolism goes back to ancient times. http://fusionanomaly.net/orion.html,
http://vigilantcitizen.com/hidden-knowledge/connection-between-sirius-and-human-history

fusion telex
http://fusionanomaly.net/karlheinzstockhausen.html
Secret societies aren't always simply benevolent or malevolent.


http://www.tekgnostics.com/Eye.htm#.URAZSh0hiSp
Human nature is hardly all benevolent, sometimes greed & deception can provide extreme motivation to gain power over others.
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/hayes/090410
Its important to try to cross reference as much esoteric & occult symbolism as possible.
http://jfdatalinks.blogspot.ca/2011/09/scott-onstott-architecture-of-reality.html
Various independent researchers and writers continue to delve into the cosmic mysteries, that the official data channels ignore or obscure. http://www.globaltruth.net/page123.html ,
http://patternsofsynchronicity.blogspot.ca/2013/01/the-third-force.html
The i-and-eye symbolism continue to surface all over the place.
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/123835/Super_Bowl_47__New_Orleans__NORAD_Drill__Occult_Symbolism_amp_False_Flag_Signs__2013/?aid=Avimoas

Detroit and Windsor

The Detroit-Windsor region has the potential to become as big & vibrant as Chicago & Toronto.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/12/detroit-technology-fresh-hope,
http://www.cnbc.com/id/47609237/Detroit_From_Urban_Blight_to_Tech_Might
However, Chicago & Toronto were almost always more than a one industry town.
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1882089,00.html
While it seems difficult to get most of the manufacturing jobs back to Detroit, there can be may other types of jobs in a diversified urban region.
So the question remains, could Detroit eventually become another Chicago or Toronto?
http://www.infowars.com/bankrupt-decaying-and-nearly-dead-24-facts-about-the-city-of-detroit-that-will-shock-you
There are still so many obstacles & challenges on the way to ever becoming a big thriving urban region.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Vancouver, BC & Other Cities

So far, Vancouver hasn't had the same scale of urban development that's common in several other cities. The buildings, roads, trains & bridges are half the size of many of the big cities. Vancouver#Incorporation 1886
Vancouverism : Urban_planning
Vancouver hasn't entered the big leagues of tall buildings. By Canadian standards, BC buildings aren't allowed to be as tall as what many other places permit.
{http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2011/05/vancouver-fantasy-skyline/}
The tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver are among the smaller big buildings of the world. Seattle, Toronto & LA all have an office tower over 70 stories. No office building in Vancouver has been permitted to reach 40 stories, around 500 feet (152.5 m) as of yet. No residential building or any other Vancouver structure is expected to reach 7oo feet (213.5 m) in the near future. The big money of the world hasn't been that interested in Vancouver, but perhaps some year, Vancouver might have an office tower as tall as the 748' MLC_Centre in Sydney. However, this would only happen if the big money really wants to change the height limitations, as was the case for LA and Sydney.
The roof of Vancouver's Living_Shangri-La is 197 m (646 ft)
The Living Shangri-La is about the same size as the Millennium_Tower in San_Francisco.
The World_Tower at 230 m (750 ft) is the tallest residential building in Sydney & remains as one of Australia's tallest.
No Vancouver building makes it onto the first page.
The 1st & 2nd tallest make it onto the 2nd page.
The 3rd & 4th tallest buildings make it onto the 3rd & 4th page.
Australia, Asaia, Europe & the Americas have so many office towers over 40 stories. It remains part of Vancouver's urban character to not have an office level reaching to or above a 40th floor.
Although the Houston_City_Hall is of a similar shape to the Vancouver_City_Hall, Houston really started to think big & tall ever since the 1960s. BC only has 1 building taller than the 630 ft (190 m) BG_Group_Place. 1700_Pacific in Dallas would be the tallest office tower if it were in BC. Although Bankers_Hall was never quite the tallest in Alberta it still would be if it were in BC.
The RBC was the first office building in Vancouver to have more than 35 floors & reach at least 460 feet. The windows go up to 36 & there are 3 more levels above the 36th. Altogether it rises 39 floors above the street.
So its a little taller than the LA_City_Hall. 138 m (453 ft)
The RBC is about as tall as 650_California_Street: 34 story, 142 m, (466 feet) However, what would still be a tower in Vancouver is almost a stump in SF. 650 California Street opened in 1964 & 5 years later was the B of A tower, or 555 California_Street.
The 1914 LCS & the 1973 RBC
It took almost 60 years for Vancouver's planning department to allow something on the scale of the 37 story, 1914 Smith Tower is 141 m (463 ft).
The main section has 35 floors, but there is a hidden level below & also above the 35th floor. http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=image&id=504517
The floors with windows total 37 which is really at the 39th level, but the overall building is still equivalent to 42 levels. That's because the original owner wanted to credit even the windowless floors. http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=image&id=334689
So the top floor window is at level 39 & there is the equivalent of 3 more levels above that.
This is the 42nd floor but some of them simply have no windows. http://www.smithtower.com/Facts.html
While this little white building has become a stump in Seattle, it would still be the tallest office tower in Vancouver.
The RBC is around the same height as the LCS & when it opened in 1973 it was Vancouver's tallest building.
Calgary, like Seattle, is not subject to the building limitations of Vancouver. The Pacific_Northwest & Western_Canada continue to develop differently than BC.
The shorter building of Seattle's Union_Square would be among Vancouver's largest office buildings. This is the same case with Calgary's Suncor_Energy_Centre.


Friday, November 5, 2010

Living in Tunnels, etc.

The tunnel people of Las Vegas

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1326187/Las-Vegas-tunnel-people-How-1-000-people-live-shimmering-strip.html
Over the years lots of people have taken to living in urban tunnels.
Sometimes people turn their home into a labyrinth of tunnels.
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People have used tunnels for various reasons for a very long time.


Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Digital Questions & Possibilities

http://www.kurzweilai.net/your-future-smartphone-and-tablet-will-have-48-cores-intel

datalinks.blogspot.com/2010/09/types-of-computers-portable-devices.html
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http://www.asklaptopfreak.com/laptop-notebook-help/2006/07/29/connect-laptop-to-tv-via-s-video-port

The Function key between life & machines

http://www.kurzweilai.net & http://www.kurzweilai.net/blog

Types of Computers & Portable Devices

Computer_types, categories and their creators.
ARPANET & History_of_the Internet
From the World_Brain concept to the_World_Wide_Web
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John von Neumann
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/von_Neumann.html
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/VonNeumann.html
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/vonneumann.html
http://hans.wyrdweb.eu/about-hole-time-crazy-experiments-nikola-tesla-and-john-von-neumann-created-many-legends-and-movies/
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Alan Turing
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/#Unc
http://www.computer50.org/mark1/turing.html#turingmachine
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Vannevar_Bush
http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/bush.html
Memex: As_We_May_Think
http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/Secondary/Bushframe.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/as-we-may-think/3881/
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/Secondary.html
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http://biorob.epfl.ch/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Alt-Delete
The_beginnings_of_the_personal_computer_industry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_1

The Pocket_PC & Phone

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Urban Tech Links (UTL)

Urban Tech Links is about what makes (or allows) some cities to be BIG or remain small, or somewhere in between. Perhaps almost every city or town will have its peculiarities, myths or urban_legends & even some synchronicity.

UTL ranges from referencing old & new tech involving urban things, statistics & legends & sci-fi stories that are connected to the fusion of buildings, inventions & technology in general. An integral part of this blog network is exploring architecture & symbolism , coincidence  and synchronicity. Some of the coolest sites are, http://ancientx.com , www.history.com/shows/ancient-aliens , www.cyberpunkreview.com , www.technovelgy.com , www.world-mysteries.com , www.wired.com , http://io9.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frankenheimer#Film , 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Favreau#Filmography

The Face of Serendipity
"The name stems either from Serendip, an old name for Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), or from Arabic Sarandib, or from Skt. Simhaladvipa which literally translates to "Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity#Etymology,
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=serendipity&searchmode=none

The_Roots & Interpretation_of_Coincidence

The Meaning of Synchronicity
Example:
Larry_Page helped to create a process to link & track each webpage called the PageRank.



This is a basic blog about civilization and urban technology, Etc.

The Terminal Connection

http://www.hudsoncity.net/tubesenglish/hudsonterminalshowingundergroundsection-640.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40045986@N00/3093305042/in/set-72157610917034284/

Monday, July 19, 2010

The Twin Towers of the Royal Liver Building: 1,911

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/The_Royal_Liver_Buildings_-_geograph.org.uk_-_526323.jpg RLB https://rlb360.com/history , 
So, John Lennon started a band in a city where a big building is topped with twin towers. Eventually, he moves to another city that becomes famous for its giant twin towers.
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Driving on the waterfront road eventually reveals the Liver Building complex with its twin towers.
A similar effect was created with much taller twin towers in NYC.
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Before the Liver Building, architect Walter_Aubrey_Thomas had designed the 11 story Tower Buildings. Most accounts of the day that he died state that had occurred on September 13. However, there is one web site that makes a distinction between the 11th & the 13th.
So far, this flickr site seems to be the only place on the Web that states, Walter A Thomas died on September 11, 1934.
It was his obituary that was published on the 13th of September.
The Liver Building Ice Sculpture Liverpool event took place at Liverpool One on 11th September 2009.
The Liverpool Urban Legend of Cease to Exist.
Legend has it that "If the Liver Birds were to fly away Liverpool would cease to exist"
Manson writes Cease to Exist & became an intense Beatles fan in the 1960s.
The Beatles, The Beach Boys & Charles Manson share a strong synchronicity with the #911, among other things.
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You can find a lot of things connected to the #911, it just depends upon how curious people are with coincidence & synchronicity.
"The first public beta of Windows Live Search was unveiled on March 8, 2006, with the final release on September 11, 2006..."
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Friday, November 27, 2009

The Metropolis









Not always in alphabetical order.
apple-computer-inc., south-philadelphia-sports-complexthe-royal-liver-building-1911subterranean-buildings-and-things


What spoiled the party in Dubai?
Friday, 27 November 2009
By Ben Thompson BBC Middle East business reporter, Dubai
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8382935.stm
Dubai announces debt payment delay

Saturday, August 29, 2009

GWB 1931, 1946 & 1962.

The GWB becomes a 14-lane suspension bridge in 1962.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Bridge
No train lines were ever installed on this major crossing.
8 lanes on the upper deck & 6 lanes on the lower.

http://curbed.com/archives/2011/08/02/the-new-tallest-building-in-the-world-all-the-must-know-stats.php