Most urban renewal projects require piles of cash and armloads of permits and blueprints. All that's needed for James Rojas' makeover of downtown Long Beach is imagination. Rojas is an urban planner who has constructed an 80-square-foot scale model of the city that residents ...
ARCHIZINES is a showcase of new architecture fanzines, journals and magazines from around the world that provide an alternative to the established architectural press. Launched by Elias Redstone, with art direction by Folch Studio, the project celebrates and promotes independent and alternative publishing as an arena for architectural commentary, criticism and research, and as a creative platform for new photography, ...
Source: postscapes - "anatomy of a smart city"
Urbanized is the new documentary film by Gary Hustwit on the current state of and debates around urbanisations across the world. A.O. Scott writes in his NYT review of the film: In this remarkably concise film — which could easily have sprawled to 15 hours on public ...
An isomteric tourist map of Reykjavik, Iceland More: http://www.reykjavikcentermap.com/ The Chinese version of Google Map -- mapping major Chinese cities in full isometric glory More: http://gz.o.cn/
Re:farm the City builds and develops open-source software, hardware and platforms for urban farmers. [It] provides the tools and know-how to design, monitor, manage, and share small-scale urban farms. The farms are designed based on methods of sustainable, organic, and companion farming, and local ...
Urbaninform is a documentry-network allowing urban practitioners to document (using photographs with recorded narration) their own projects, ideas and proposals and share it with a wide range of fellow practitinoers, innovators and thinkers, technologists and funders etc. Urbaninform encourages and facilitates archiving of urban intervention practices across ...
At rush hour, two architects and a biologist stand on a footbridge over the highway that runs east and west through the center of this concrete cityscape... To most urban eyes, it is just a hidden canal of trash and feces, paved over since 1952. But ...
luzinterruptus, a madrid based urban art group, is carrying out a series of micro-interventions to draw attention towards and preserve urban flora and fauna. Self-described as "an anonymous artistic group, who carries out urban interventions in public spaces," they use "light as a raw material and ...
Conceived by Laetitia Wolff, "ExpoTENtial, 10 urban interventions x 10 design labs" is a multi-dimensional, curated platform/festival that seeks to foster NY design communityʼs engagement with the city by investigating ideas for a slower (yes), smarter, livelier, healthier urban experience... ExpoTENtial brings designers to the table of serious conversations, pulling them ...
People across India Join Medha Patkar’s Indefinite Hunger Strike on the 4thConsecutive Day Today. Simultaneously, Solidarity protest marches and demonstrations have been staged in Badwani, Madhya Pradesh and New Delhi . The indefinite fast begun on 20th May in the back drop of governments inaction against Shivalik Ventures ... [which] has rendered thousands ...
The city was planned and implemented between 1965-1970 by two Indian planners, H.K.Mewada and P.M.Apte, and an influential group of architects from Ahmedabad with active support from some industrialists. The supporters later tried to usurp the job by bringing in American architect Louis Kahn... [Eventually the ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDLPAE9wLEU more: helvetica - a film by gary hustwit
Slum settlements throughout Mumbai are witnessing a similar phenomenon this summer: that of children skipping school in the afternoons... The kids are home for a reason: to collect and store water from the meagre quantity that's released from municipal taps every afternoon... In 'Fluid City', a ...
About five years ago, Nicholas Felton had a cute idea: to create an annual report of his life filled with charts and graphs about the restaurants he had visited and the days he had traveled — just like the annual reports sent out by companies, but with personal details. That idea led him to co-found Daytum.com, which ...
"there's more and more of a desire to shape the public space to include more community space as density goes up, simply because we have to share it," Price said. "Look at bike lanes, look at the boulevard planting... the culture begins to evolve in such a way that is has to find some way of determining what's generally acceptable. ...
The State of Metropolitan America is a signature effort of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program that portrays the demographic and social trends shaping the nation’s essential economic and societal units—its large metropolitan areas—and discusses what they ...
On March 25th, Zaha Hadid Architects made a quarter of its staff redundant, laying off more than 90 employees because of “unforeseen events in North Africa.” The reason was the democratic uprising in the Middle East, and specifically Libya, where Hadid’s new conference center outside of Tripoli had been “put ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_HUYi9aVvI&feature=player_embedded New York City’s Times Square could be considered one of the most overwhelmingly intrusive places in the country. It is a glob of flashing, neon advertisements that tower over mobs of tourists and natives alike, assaulting their senses and overloading their minds. BITcrash44 [, known by his YouTube username,] has devised a way of hacking into Times Squares’ enormous screens using ...
Two hundred years ago on Tuesday, the city’s street commissioners certified the no-frills street matrix that heralded New York’s transformation into the City of Angles — the rigid 90-degree grid that spurred unprecedented development, gave birth to vehicular gridlock and defiant jaywalking, and ...
This year, Parsons The New School of Design is beginning the first undergraduate course on "urban design" in USA. Urban Omnibus spoke to Victoria Marshall, the Director of the program, about how the course is conceptualising the city and the ...
SOILED is a semiannual journal that employs narratives, manifestoes, mappings, ephemera, and live events to mediate its architectural discourse to the broader public. The inaugural issue, entitled Groundscrapers, is now available! Groundscrapers probes systems, populations, and infrastructures that occupy massive amounts of space in our ...
Government of India has opened up the process of creating the 12th Five Year Plan (for the period 2012-13 to 2017-18) to public participation using social media tools: a Facebook Page and a dedicated website hosting discussions, opinion polls and idea challenges. You can access the Facebook Page here: ...
W.A.R. W.A.R. is a global network that aims to exalt losing ideas of the past and find new applications for them. In its multiple capacities W.A.R. acts as an archive, curator, auction house, sales representive and research centre. Department of Unusual Certainties was recently awarded honourable mention for their ...
ben van berkel speaking on re-inventing his firm van berkel & bos as unstudio in late 1990s: It was interesting how we reorganized the studio in the late 90s because it was, in a way, based purely on speculative ambition. We recognized that we weren’t working in a linear manner anymore as there were no longer draughtsmen in the ...
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