Is Google Glass really “ killing city ” or just the douchebags who wear them ? Are mines bring urban center down — literally ? Is the Bowery doomed ? Is Berlin really over ? We examine these questions and more , in this week ’s edition of What ’s Ruining Our Cities .
Google Glass is ruining all cities
It ’s always fun to fault technology company for your own personal problems , is n’t it ? A adult female named Sarah Slocum was harass at a San Francisco saloon for wearing Google Glass : A adult female turn over her off and told her “ You ’re killing the city , ” then another guy tore the glasses ( Glass ? ) off her side and ran away . He bring them back , but her handbag and phone were stolen by someone else . It ’s all captured on video — recorded through Slocum ’s Google Glass , of course — and Slocum take to Twitter , begging Google to bear for her trip to SXSW to make up for the indignity . Because it ’s all their faulting . [ New Yorker , Valleywag ]
Mines are ruining a Swedish town
mine seem to induce all sort of fuss in our city – but the ones beneath Kiruna , Sweden , the country ’s northmost Ithiel Town , are a particular problem . An iron mine below the city has slowly bulge to devour the township from below , requiring engineers to move the entire city two miles to the east . Yes , they are moving it : “ More than 3,000 flat pulley-block and houses , several hotel and 2.2 million square - feet of office , school day and hospital space will be empty over the next two ten — while alternatives are establish on the new site . ” We’veposted about Kiruna before , but work will in conclusion begin next month on the gargantuan project , which includes take apart a historic church and reassembling it piece by small-arm . [ BBC News ]
https://gizmodo.com/moving-mountains-six-cities-and-towns-that-were-comple-1436927345
Hipsters ruined the Bowery
When the Ace Hotel announced this calendar week that it was open a second New York City location , the news was not terribly surprising to anyone . The location is upsetting to some , though : They ’re taking over the Salvation Army building on New York ’s Bowery , one of the last and large operations serving the local homeless population . This may symbolize the final hipster nail in the last gentrification coffin for the neighborhood : “ It ’s been chance for yr , of course ; some might even say for a hundred or more . The Bowery , a street that ’s older than Broadway , has exist several lives since the days when it led the way to Peter Stuyvesant ’s farm . Now it leads the way to overpriced farm - refreshful produce at a Whole Foods encase in glass . And you hump what ? It ’s the hipsters ’ mistake . ” [ Gizmodo ]
Hipsters ruined Berlin (and Berlin couldn’t be happier)
Berlin is over , declare Rolling Stone , The New York Times , and even our own Gawker over the last few weeks . But you wo n’t see any Berliners call out into their Weissbier about the intelligence . They ’ve struggled with the influx of clueless holidaymaker and obtuse transplantation who come here to party , drive up the economic rent , and contribute nothing to the local refinement — they just want things to get back to normal . “ Across the board , claim that Berlin is waning as the apogee of cool have been greeted not with dismay , but with glee . ” [ Atlantic Cities ]
Illinois Rep. Tom Demmer , R - Rochelle , shows off his Google glasses to lawmakers while on the House base during academic session at the Illinois State Capitol Thursday , Feb. 27 , 2014 , in Springfield , Ill. ( AP Photo / Seth Perlman )
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