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March 9th, 2010 By Josh Kitlas Posted in Future, Urban Planning

Teaching Positions: Washington, D.C. and Baltimore regions, beginning in the 2010-2011 school year

From The American University’s (my undergrad university) ListServ:

Urban Teacher Center is an innovative teacher preparation program that supports dedicated individuals to become outstanding teachers. Our applicants make a four-year commitment, including a one-year residency followed by a three-year teaching commitment. Our residency year is based on the medical model:  residents complete a structured clinical experience in an urban elementary or K-8 school. Residents also engage in a rigorous Master’s of Education program. We are looking for candidates + Continue Reading

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January 27th, 2010 By Josh Kitlas Posted in Architecture

The Hexayurt

Hexayurt

Hexayurt

This looks very interesting. I wonder if it will make it to Haiti… + Continue Reading

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October 27th, 2008 By Josh Kitlas Posted in Technology, Urban Planning

Essential for City Living

SitOrSquat.com

SitOrSquat.com

So I came across SitOrSquat.com today. Touted as “A Place to Find and Record Bathrooms Anywhere in the World’ (presently only in a few places listed below), this has to be one of the most overlooked topics for geo-mapped sites (also, more importantly, available for mobile devices/phones). As a long time city dweller, I can’t think of a more valuable resource. Though I imagine there are more than a few places that you could breeze into and out of to handle your business, you’ll have plenty to chose from. I doubt there is one Manhattan citizen or visitor that will not want this on their phone.

From their site:
Over 50,000 Toilets!!!
Big news today! We’ve been downloaded near 1,000 times on the iTunes App Store and we’ve added over 50,000 service station toilets in the United States. Please feel free to add photos and comments to any of them which may be in your area or if you have ever visited them. We’re currently working on adding more service stations throughout the world as more data comes in. Stay tuned!
LOCATIONS
In the US: Seatle, WA, Dallas, TX, Atlanta, GA, New York, NY, Miami, FL, Chicago, IL, San Francisco, CA
In the UK: London, UK
I found out about this via Thrillist

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October 13th, 2008 By Josh Kitlas Posted in Technology, Urban Planning

So cool – Storytelling via Mapping

Wheres the GPS?

Where's the GPS?

I got these off of Do Lectures >> Matt Jones Designer. Creative Director. Web guru. Blogger. And was directed there by Tim Ferrirss of 4HWW. Very interesting  – the use of maps to tell stories. Here are a couple links:

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October 7th, 2008 By Josh Kitlas Posted in Africa, Urban Planning

African Centre for Cities

Dakar, Senegal

Dakar, Senegal

This looks very interesting and something I’m going to learn more about. I received this via email from Chimurenga:

AFRICAN CITIES READER

[A creation of the African Centre for Cities & Chimurenga Magazine]

“All African cities are the product of multiple trajectories and origins, which implies that that the living, breathing, pulsating fact of African cities adds up to a form of ‘pan-Africanism’ that is more interesting than the tired tropes of pan-African Nationalism that remains the stock and trade of many official discourses about transnational and trans-local practices on the continent. We believe that ‘pan-Africanism as a practice’ despite the repeated deaths of pan-Africanism as a nationalist discourse opens up multiple explorations into the spatial specificity of cities crafted in the border zones between informal/formal, licit/illicit, chaotic/ordered, etc.”
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