[Bird’s-eye view of “Wal-(medley mixed-up mélange montage mash-up shopping)mart”, an absurdly-titled (but also somewhat light-hearted) proposal for a Wal-Mart on the Gowanus Canal, drawn by (then?) Yale architecture students Alexander Maymind & Cody Davis; read an in-depth interview regarding the project at Archinect.]

Catching up (post-viral and sister-visiting-from-Mongolia break) on the Infrastructural City, with two posts regarding “Distribution”: Brett Milligan contributes “The X-Ray of Retail”, which discusses the internal landscape of big-box stores as a microcosm of regional distribution, while Nam Henderson discusses both Lane Barden’s photo-essay “The Street” (on Wilshire Boulevard) and “Distribution”.

Nam also recently posted on two of the earlier chapters, “Cell Structure” and “Count(ing) on Change”; while reading his post, you might pay particular note to the video Nam dug up of a panel discussion from Michigan’s “Future of Urbanism Conference” this past March.  The discussion, on “urban and regional ecologies”, features panelists Alan Berger, Chris Reed, Edward Soja, and Kazys Varnelis; while I haven’t had a chance to watch it in full yet, my suspicion, given the panelists, is that it’d be worth the half-hour to do so.