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Carchitecture. What happens when you hire Herzog & de Meuron to design your parking garage? People suddenly begin to push out the cars. That seems to be the case in Miami Beach according to a NY Times article on the upscale soirees and and tourists that have become common place in the uncommon structure.

Cats on Broadway. No, it’s not a return of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, but a proposal to add a little theatrics to Chicago’s Broadway. Curbed reports that the proposal is part of an IIT thesis project calling for a pedestrian-oriented street complete with a statue of a giant waving car (or more properly, a Maneki Neko).

Please Litter. Could the latest trend in snail mail be a pro-littering campaign? According to TreeHugger, Google has embedded seeds in paper (recycled, of course) for a recent mailer. The letter advises its recipient to “plant in a sunny spot with a thin layer of soil… and watch it grow.”

Abandonment. Detroit has become infamous for its ruins, and ruins can be oh so seductive, but Noreen Malone at The New Republic says it’s time to end our infatuation with “ruin porn.” Malone takes aim at the message a deserted photograph devoid of people sends when Detroit’s abandoned are left out of the abandonment.

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