Affordable C6 Prefab Open in Long Beach
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LivingHomes recently introduced a new, lower cost prefab called the C6 and
built two models to showcase to the world. Last week, we mentioned the
Palm Spr...
Vintage Ignoring the Bull from Colombia
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Here's a spot of vintage Ignoring the Bull for you. From Colombia, in the
Year of Our Lord the Car, 1948.
Good thing they removed those pesky injured/kill...
What Legos Can Teach Us About Civic Participation
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This incited hegemony in the Lego room. Credit: Alex Gilliam
*This piece originally appeared on the BMW Guggenheim Lab’s blog, the
Lab|log.*
One evening...
34 Superhero Artworks With The Power To Move You
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Superhero art is no longer confined to comic books and graphic novels.
Breaking free from their two dimensional boundaries, superheroes are now
the stars o...
Ryue Nishizawa’s Vertical Garden Home
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Spoong&Tamago has this great post on a home on a small lot in Tokyo. The
building is gracefully designed to have plentiful outdoor spaces on each
floor. Sa...
Housebuilder Networks and Residential Land Markets
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The commercial prospects of speculative housebuilders depend crucially on
successful land acquisitions. This paper presents new evidence revealing
the im...
“Sky Farm” – hanging spheres growing food
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Designer’s solution for the minimalistic space that’s available for growing
food By Manuel Dreesmann With the growth of cities, the height of the
buildings...
HoverMast
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[Image: The Sky Sapience HoverMast, via *sUAS News*].
The Israeli-made HoverMast is a "tethered hovering platform specially
designed for small vehicles." A...
Mountaintop removal offends my core
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC:
As many of my readers may know, I grew up in the southern Appalachi...
Starck and Peugeot Bicycle Collaboration
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Visionary, designer, architect and artist, Phillipe Starck, has teamed up
with Peugeot Cycles to create a bike being heralded as “the ideal city
bike“, or ...
2012 Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism
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Mark yr calendars: Thursday, *April 5th* is the 2012 Lewis Mumford Lecture
on Urbanism, to be given by New York City Department of Transportation
Commissio...
Cartography of Excess
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Bureau d’Études and Multiplicity (March 2002) This text (a veritable blast
from the past) was published first in Springerin, then all over the place,
and f...
The Flynn Effect
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In a phenomenon known as the Flynn Effect, scores on standardized IQ tests
have steadily risen in developed countries over the decades. That is, until
re...
Back in the Air Again
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The Antiplanner is headed to Vancouver BC this morning for a debate on
whether smart growth and light rail should be applied in Vancouver suburbs
south of ...
Raphaël Krafft: reportage on two wheels
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is a radio journalist working for the French national broadcaster who for
the past ten years has been finding his stories by bicycle. Krafft’s two
wheeled ...
KRASOJEVIC UNBOUND
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In a recent post I spoke of drawing “what architecture could be.” Since the
days when I first set out to do that with hand-made drawings, the digital
compu...
You Can't Send Places As Attachments
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For a city to be worth seeing, there must be something unique about it,
said Douglas Coupland. A Vancouver native, Coupland is an artist and
novelist famou...
More Moon Maps
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Chinese scientists have released a high-resolution map of the Moon based on images from the Chang'e 2 spacecraft; the maps are at a resolution of seven metre...
Mötesindustrin i Malmö-Lund växer
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Malmö/Lund har tidigare legat flera steg bakom Stockholm och Göteborg i
arbetet med att locka till sig internationella kongresser, konferenser och
mässor...
Attributing Modernism
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Antonin Raymond, Summer House at Karuizawa, South and East Facades, Nagano
Prefecture, Japan (1933) (Source: Kurt Helfrich and William Whittaker, eds.
*Cr...
GOOD Times in Portland
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The recent event for GOOD Ideas for Cities happened last week in Portland,
and generated some great dialogue. I was also on one of the teams that
presente...
Cartographica - Mobile GIS Platform - 03
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Traditionally Geographic Information System (GIS) have been exclusively run
on the Windows platform. Only very few applications run on either cross
platfor...
Ut ur inhägnadernas tragedi, del 1: kapellet
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I det sena eftermiddagsljuset stannade vi till och besökte Storsäterns
kapell i Idre församling, invigt revolutionsåret 1968. Man når byggnaden
via en pl...
Ubicomp and social media (part 2)
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Sofa, TV, pod and pad – settings of ubiquitous sociality In part 1 of this
article – posted last summer – the basic idea was that these days
ubiquitous com...
Step 1: Define Affordability
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It’s hard to solve a problem without first identifying what it is. Solving
the “housing affordability crisis” is no exception. What is meant when
someone...
Stadsplaneringen intar App-store
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Vad skulle du satsa på om du fick bestämma om en stads utveckling? Genom
spelet 2012 kan skolungdomar och andra intresserade utveckla sitt Göteborg
genom I...
Visible Cities: Massimo Scolari at Yale
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Visible Cities: Massimo Scolari at Yale
Italo Calvino did not necessarily listen to everything Massimo Scolari said
when he spoke to him about architectu...
Ett skepp kommer lastat….
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Idag besökte jag det nya landmärket utanför Landskrona. Helt inofficiellt
sådant och totalt ’caused by nature’. Det är alltså en
torrdocka/flytbrygga/pråm ...
Airport Typeface.
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No public building works without environmental graphic - however - there
might be no other place where people are not so dependable of signature
like on ai...
suchamark3
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HI People myself Sucha Mark an Innovator, investor, internet marketing guru
and entrepreneur. While studying Information Systems at the University of
Mel...
History of Nong Chik - updated
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re-issued with google map
[image: HillsideHoneycomb Housing]
The hillside Honeycomb project in Johor Bahru is in an old part of the
city. Old government q...
Handeln bygger staden - nu tillgänglig på nätet
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Det tog lite tid
Först att skriva den och fåalla bilder på plats - och sedan att få till
marknadsföringsmaterial och läggaut via digitala länkar. Men nu ...
Electricity is Magic Gallery - Call for Works
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*Culled from a press release that recently showed up in our inbox.*
As we plan our 2012 Electricity is Magic season, we invite submissions from
individua...
Leap
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I really love this prefabricated, multi-modular Alpine lodge designed by
Leapfactory. Dezeen has all the simply stunning photos. No related posts.
No com...
Kaleidoscopic New York
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More fun with the Stereographic Street View hack. As it turns out, you can
do a lot more than just make those cute little mini-planets. Long, low
buildings...
Paris Subway Usability Hacks
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In mid December I finally got the opportunity to visit the (in-)famous
French capital. Being the urban planning geek I am, I couldn’t help
noticing some in...
EVERYTHING MUST GO
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… a conference about talking rubbish Program Saturday 21st January 2012
11.15-1.00pm ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE USED CLOTHING TRADE Chair:
Professor N...
Long Thin Yellow Legs of Architecture
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Continuing on the theme of Constructivist sculpture in Rotterdam, there is this remarkable piece by Coop Himmelblau, first built in 1988 and still present to...
Vinden har vänt
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Ibland vänder det bara helt plötsligt. Vinden stannar upp och ändrar
riktning. Vi är flera socialdemokrater som verkar ha nått samma punkt
ungefär samtid...
Artist Gardeners
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Artist Gardeners is a project initiated by London artist Dimitri Launder,
formerly the primus motor behind the artist-run space Area Ten in Peckham,
South ...
Spatial Intervention: Five Moments from #occupy
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Some aspects of #occupy that stand out for their implications about the
rough edges and overlaps in political control, spatial practice, spatial
design, an...
Pull the Units Down
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Despite earlier gripes I'm going to be giving several talks about *Uncommon
*over the next month or so; one at the Architectural Association in London
(o...
Ny blogg
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Den här bloggen har flyttat till arkitektur.se. Gamla inlägg och
kommentarer är också medflyttade; diskussionen fortsätter där.
This blog has moved to ...
Journeys to narcostates and military landscapes
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I want to bring to your attention two new and exciting items… First, I
recently filed this OpEd for DomusWeb, the website sibling of Italian
architecture m...
only emerge
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Bestor's Silent Disco via. This month my recent story Emerging Talent hits the cover of Architect magazine. The piece looks at young practices and the non-pr...
Köket representerar i CPH
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Vi är så stolta och glada över att ha varit inbjudna gäster på Köpenhamns
Cykelfestival. Ett inferno av allt vad cykel och urban cykling kan vara. Vi
bygg...
More Dots!
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A couple quick follow-ups to my dot maps of Chicago.
First, I made some similar maps for the Bay Area showing race and
ethnicity, poverty, and education. ...
Vad vi behöver - och inte
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Istället för bostäder får vi hotellrum. De senaste åren har antalet
hotellrum ökat med 50% i Stockholm.
Istället för lokaler för små och nystartade föret...
Physical Computing’s Greatest Hits (and misses)
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Here’s a humorous list by Tom Igoe of the classic physical computing
projects students get excited about every year. I personally recognise a
lot of these ...
ARCHAEOLOGY, March/April 2012
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Saga of the Northwest Passage (HMS Investigator), New Life for the Lion Man
(Germany), Rome's Lost Aqueduct, Coronado's Deadly Siege (New Mexico), The
Pear...
Att välja uppsatsämne
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Ett litet tips till alla studenter som ska skriva uppsats om
samhällsutveckling och stadsutveckling: Innan ni väljer ämne - scanna
fältet och kolla hur mån...
Tack, pappa Staten.
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Fick precis beslutet från Kulturrådet om tidskriftsstöd för år 2011. KRITIK
får fortsatt oförändrat stöd, för att kunna bidra med ökad mångfald inom
vårt f...
Nya grannar som tänker rätt
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Jag fnyste också åt det där citatet som stod hugget i universitetsbyggnaden
i Uppsala: ”Att tänka fritt är stort att tänka rätt är större”. Jag vet
inte om...
2010 election cartograms
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Also, election cartograms are fascinating.
*This electoral cartogram was made by Michael Gastner. Here's my labeled
version of the 2008 election cartogram...
From the Voyage Vaults, Object No. 30
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Just as I was about to head out the door of the tourist-filled St. George’s
Basilica in the Prague Castle (Pražský hrad), I found myself face to face
with ...
Gärna 25 våningar vid Carlsgatan
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Byggkommularådet i Malmö, Anders Rubin, säger ”Vi vill först höra vad folk
tycker”.
Fågan gäller hushöjderna för området norr om Centralen. Kanozi ville
...
Gissa var bilden är tagen
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Kan du gissa var den här bilden är tagen? Som ledtråd kan jag säga att det
är i centrala Malmö. En ledtråd till är att stället är mycket förändrat
idag och...
No Rococo Palace for Buster Keaton
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Americanism (and Technology, Advertising, Socialism) in Weimar Architecture
To introduce this paper I'd like to point to the differences between these
tw...
Incitament
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Vaccination är det mest effektiva sättet att stoppa en influensa innan den
blir riktigt allvarlig. Att vaccinera även då det är ”i onödan” är alltid
rejält...
The urban computing conference title picker
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Do you like speaking at conferences? Do you like cities? Do you like architecture? Then we've got a talk you can give! Just visit the Urban Computing confere...
A Little Help from Her Friends
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So it turns out this weekends winter wonderland was a cooperative effort
between Mother Nature and Mother China, as reported in the Guardian.
And in this T...
Revised: Metropolis's RSS Feed Has Moved!
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Attention Metropolis RSS subscribers: You can now receive a complete feed
of magazine stories at http://feeds.feedburner.com/MetropolisMagazine. The
feed y...
Critical Outer Spatial Practice?
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"Whitey on the Moon"
On Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon" / Seneca Doane @ Daily Kos
My sense is that if most people know any reference to the music...
Guerilla Architecture
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[image: kimonoshelter01ludens.jpg]
Our ninja Ivan Hernandez Quintela of Ludens [our first ‘Ninja of the Month’]
contacted AMNP last week about new projec...
(Bloggen flyttar)
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(Norra Grängesbergsgatan bloggen har fått både ett nytt utseende och en
enklare adress. Från och med nu hittar ni bloggen med de senaste inläggen
på: www.n...
And now, the end is near…
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…fast ändå inte. Jag lägger ner Street Art Stockholm och börjar istället
skriva och plåta för gatukonst.se. Det blir roligare så. This blog is
closed, but ...
Superhero Cities
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You are either a DC fan or a Marvel fan. These two competing comic
universes breed a strange kind of loyalty. Both have their own stable of
celebrated hero...
beltstl.com
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B.E.L.T. has officially moved to a new address:
www.beltstl.com
All the B.E.L.T. archives reside in the new home, and head over there now
to see a couple o...
Musing on Intelligent Design
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So I was reading an article that had to do with "proving god exists" through scientific logic. One argument that was brought up was saying, "How is it possib...
Plant Rights
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In its Year of Ideas issue, *The New York Times Magazine* highlighted a new
trend in environmental protection: rights for nature.
According to the magazi...
Let's move on!
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Snön faller, vinden piskar oss i ansiktet. Det är verkligen dåliga
förutsättningar för cykling just nu. Men vad passar då inte bättre än att
ge Pista Mal...
Where are the flats?
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Vice President Jusuf Kalla wonders why Indonesian real estate companies are
so slow in building low-income flats. FYI, last year the VP declared a
national...
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