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The desire to reimagine an architectural fear as productive urban space led Koen Olthuis, of award winning Netherlands-based Waterstudio.NL, to create floating ‘City Apps.’ Modular building platforms that sit atop the water, these innovative ...
Fit: An Architect's Manifesto, Robert Geddes Princeton University Press $19.95. Early in Fit, Robert Geddes – dean emeritus at the Princeton School of Architecture and distinguished urbanist– notes that “what we build is a ...
Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities, Urban-Think Tank, Lars Muller Publishers, £ 45.00. The third tallest building in Venezuela stands proudly in the heart of Caracas’ former central business district, Libertador. Originally conceived as a landmark ...
Elementary Calculus, J Carrier, MACK, $ 50.00. The first image one sees in Elementary Calculus, a subtle, but striking new collection of photography by Brooklyn based artist J Carrier, is of orange blossoms. The delicate ...
In December 2006, Mexican President Felipe Calderón began his six-year term in office declaring war on the drug cartels fighting to control lucrative trafficking routes into the United States. It is estimated that more ...
The City that Became Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control, by Franklin E. Zimring, Oxford University Press, €18.99, $29.95. “Dirty, dangerous and destitute” New York of the 1970s ...
Driven by the potential for urban design to empower and integrate communities, Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner aim to bring ‘game changing’ modern architecture to the dynamic informal cities of the developing world. Urban-Think Tank ...
“Artificial light in the environment must be considered a chronic impairment of habitat...While lamp efficiency and consideration of SPD (spectral power distribution) are significant accomplishments, true night sky friendly lighting can still only be ...
It’s hard to be more global than the nights in Shanghai. After experiencing the night life of Berlin, Paris, New York, Barcelona, Dubai, you must plunge into the most wideawake night life on the ...
New active design practices promoting physical activity and wellbeing are becoming a key strategy for tackling chronic non-communicable diseases caused by sedentary lifestyles. Walking the streets of Manhattan, one cannot fail to be struck by ...
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