Cy Clyde Ghost Sign in Miami Beach

This terrazzo entryway proclaiming Cy Clyde is filthy and gross, but the jaunty type is really fun! I spotted this ghost sign in Miami Beach, in an entryway to a boutique.

VisuaLingual Seed Bombs for MudBuddy

Lightborne is a design studio, production company and editorial house right in our neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati that just released the storybook iPad app MudBuddy, and we produced a line of seed bombs to accompany the launch.

Elsewhere

Cincinnati Expands, Streamlines Mobile Food Vending Zone Program: more inexpensive food options are coming to the basin.

How to Resurrect an Urban School District: for all your breeders out there, an article about Cincinnati Public Schools.

Stories from the Pendleton Art Center: the fascinating history of the “World’s Largest Collection of Artists Under One Roof” that’s found right in Over-the-Rhine.

Brooklyn, the Remix: A Hip-Hop Tour: yes.

The Fight against Small Apartments: in Seattle, the micro apartment is considered the new SRO by NIMBYs.

Top Urbanists Agree: Casinos Ruin Cities: excellent analysis by The Urbanophile on a recent kind of urban blight.

Artists Announce They’ve Found All the Beauty They Can in Urban Decay: LOL, speaking of urban blight…

Beesley Furniture Company Ghost Sign in Nashville

The Beesley Furniture Company was located on the corner of 3rd Ave. North and Broadway in Nashville, TN, on the edge of what is now the tourist district.

Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone Company Building by Harry Hake

The Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone Company Building, located on the corner of West 7th and Elm Sts. in downtown Cincinnati, was designed by Harry Hake and opened its doors in 1931.

Tomorrow Land by Micah Ganske

Cheshire, OH by Micah Ganske

The painter and sculptor Micah Ganske was born in Honolulu and now lives in NYC, where he has been working on Tomorrow Land, a series of dystopian acrylic paintings of the shadows of “aspirational technology” on depressed or abandoned industrial locations.

Noted without Comment

Ce n’est pas un signe de fantôme.

Elsewhere

Cincinnati’s Radioactive Subway Tunnels: okay, they’re not radioactive, but do check them out.

Heidelberg Project House Burns, Arson Suspected in Fire of Detroit Art Installation of Tyree Guyton: tragic news about the Heidelberg Project in Detroit.

Fire at the Heidelberg Project Is a Snapshot of Presence: a lovely write-up about this sad turn of events.

The Golden Age of Gondolas Might Be Just Around the Corner: what the?

A 70-Year-Old Documentary About Cities Shows We Haven’t Come Very Far: wow.

How I Became a Hipster: Brooklyn-exploring link bait.

A ‘Whom Do You Hang With?’ Map of America: tracking the circulation of dollar bills.

Roy’s Motel and Café Ghost Sign in Amboy, CA

Roy’s Motel and Café was once a motel, café, gas station, and auto repair shop. Nowadays, it’s a gas station, popular tourist spot and filming location in the ghost town of Amboy in California’s Mojave Desert, located along Route 66.

Open Walls Baltimore

Located in the Station North neighborhood of Baltimore, Open Walls Baltimore is a collection of about two dozen public murals by street artists from around the world, curated by Gaia.