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Cityscapes :: An urban magazine from the global south :: New issue #3: The Smart City?

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Henrik Ernstson

How to think cities anew? When what we are seeing are not new londons, parises, new-yorks or even tokyos growing, we need to start re-thinking what urbanization and urbanism is about. This is when we need a magazine like Cityscapes. … Continue reading →

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Bhopal 2011: Requiem & Revitalization

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Garry Peterson

MJ writes about BHOPAL 2011: Requiem & Revitalization an International Students’ Workshop and Symposium, Bhopal, India January 23 – February 04, 2011.  The workshop is organized by the School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi, modern Asian Architecture Network (mAAN), … Continue reading →

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Resilience meets architecture and urban planning

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Victor Galaz

- by Matteo Giusti [contact: matteo.giusti [at] gmail.com] – Does resilience thinking and architecture really mix? The answer is a clear “yes” if you ask urban planner Marco Miglioranzi, and Matteo Giusti, Master student at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Together with the German based … Continue reading →

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mammoth’s best architecture of the decade

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Garry Peterson

mammoth suggests the the best architecture of the decade.  They write: The end of a decade inspires a lot of list compiling; in that spirit, mammoth offers an alternative list of the best architecture of the decade, concocted without any … Continue reading →

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Dubai’s new tower

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Garry Peterson

The world’s tallest building has just been opened in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The Toronto Globe and Mail writes: Soaring 200 storeys and 828 metres into the sky, the world’s tallest structure has opened in Dubai, a monument … Continue reading →

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Ballard and architecture

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Garry Peterson

Noted science fiction author J.G. Ballard died April 19, 2009. on Omnivoracious Geoff Manaugh, of BLDG BLOG, offers an architectural appreciation – Between the Tower and the Parking Lot: A Spatial Appreciation of J.G. Ballard: J.G. Ballard, who died on … Continue reading →

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Kim Stanley Robinson on nature, architecture, and society

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Garry Peterson

Geoff Manaugh recently interviewed ecological science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson about ecology, architecture and socieities on BLDGBLOG.  Manaugh writes: Robinson’s books are not only filled with descriptions of landscapes – whole planets, in fact, noted, sensed, and textured down … Continue reading →

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Rooftop gardening in Montreal

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Garry Peterson

Montreal’s Rooftop gardening project has had a demonstration garden outside my office at McGill this summer. Montreal is very dense, it has a lack of gardening space, but many people have balconies and external staircases where they can have gardens. … Continue reading →

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Building Interdisciplinarity

Posted on February 23, 2007 by Garry Peterson

An article in Harvard Magazine (January-February 2007) describes The Janelia Experiment, an new biomedical research facility designed to foster great inter-discplinary research. Fostering interdisciplinary research is topic the Stockholm Resilience Center is grapling with as it organizes itself (but without … Continue reading →

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Teddy Cruz – What adaptive architecture can learn from Shantytowns

Posted on March 15, 2006 by Garry Peterson

Teddy Cruz a California architecture, who has focussed on what architecture can be learnt from informal settlements is profiled in an article Border-town muse: An architect finds a model in Tijuana from the March 13 International Herald Tribune. The IHT … Continue reading →

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