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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Subway by Bruce Davidson, Steidl 48€ For several years now, publisher Steidl has been republishing photographers whose work, often out of print, represents a cornerstone in the story of photography and its ...
Photo (from left to right) Rufus Yerxa, WTO; Pierre Maudet, Mayor of Geneva; Peter Schatzer, IOM; Winston Griffin, P&G; debate moderator Professor Elizabeth Prügl from The Graduate Institute of International ...
China has faced a lot of criticism about its new high-speed rail service, especially after a train derailed in July 2010, killing 40 and injuring 192. But a new World Bank study ...
The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SSR) has announced a wide review of all of its internet platforms, radio and television stations across Switzerland. The oldest English language radio with national broadcasting, World Radio ...
Police misconduct and violence continues throughout the world, often without any oversight, accountability or justice for the victims. Recent deaths of civilians by police officers in New York, violent repression of “Occupy ...
The Very Hungry City: Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities, Austin Troy, Yale University Press, £25.00/$28.00/20,00 € In his new book Austin Troy shows how ...
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