Jan. 7th, 2012

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I promised the other day to run down a partial list of infrastructure-related weblogs I like reading regularly. So, in delivering on that promise...

I'll admit up front to the bias towards the Spacing Magazine-backed regional weblogs. I contribute to the Ottawa edition, and went to work with them on the basis of their magazine's in-print material. So, in addition to [livejournal.com profile] spacing_ottawa, we have four others:

Spacing Vancouver
Spacing Toronto
Spacing Montréal
Spacing Atlantic (focused on the Canadian cities of the Atlantic coastal provinces: Saint John, Fredericton, Moncton, Halifax, Sydney, Charlottetown, St. John's and so on)

(While I've got your attention: Spacing is looking for contributors to similar weblogs they've got in the works for these cities: Edmonton, Calgary, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Ville de Québec. If you live in any of those cities and you've got informed opinions on the infrastructure there - the definition of "infrastructure" is more wide-ranging than you might think! - go talk to them ASAP!)

Added to that from across Canada:

Public Transit in Ottawa
Public Transit in Vancouver (which apparently has fallen fallow since 2008! Distressing!)

From the rest of the planet:

The Transport Politic
The Next American City
Atlantic Cities
Good
BLDGBLOG

Anyone have any recommendations for adding to this list? I know it's incomplete!
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Having bought the <b>Historical Atlas of New York City</b> by Eric Homberger - the original edition in paperback - some years ago, I have to admit to some issues with the content both then and in the newer edition which I've seen via the local library. It's got the best mixture of old and new map usage I've yet to see in a historical atlas, but my main beef with it is that it's Manhattan-centric. Not as much attention to the other four boroughs, and that's a gap that could stand to be filled.

So, what I'm wondering is this: might there be <i>another</i> volume out there that addresses this gap to my satisfaction?

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