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12.19.11: David Stairs
Demythologizing Design: Another View of "Design with the Other 90%: CITIES"David Stairs reviews "Design with other 90%:Cities"
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10.04.11: Julia Cooke
Cuba Libre: Contemporary Architecture in HavanaYoung architects struggle to update the face of Cuba.
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09.12.11: Rachel Signer
Don't Flush MePrototype for urban system to detect and prevent sewage overflows
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09.05.11: John Thackara
Iceland: Eaten Alive, or Growing to Live?Exploding the myth of Iceland's "green" energy — with alternative suggestions
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08.08.11: Barbara Flanagan
Sleeping with the FishesReview of "Waltzing with Brando," an account of the actor's effort to inhabit and protect a Tahitian atoll.
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07.18.11: Jane Margolies
My Block NYCMy Block NYC, a new video-mapping website, invites residents, tourists and videographers to upload clips they’ve taken on the streets of New York.
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03.30.11: John Thackara
Does Bilbao Need Another Guggenheim?Ideas for remaking Basque country that go far beyond fancy architecture.
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03.28.11: Julie Lasky
Chandigarh on the BlockFurnishings designed for Corbusier's urban masterpiece are being sold at auction. How outraged should we be?
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02.09.11: Photos by Magda Biernat
The Hard SellImages from "Betel Nut Beauties": photos by Magda Biernat.
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01.31.11: Jonathan Schultz
Give a MinuteReport on Local Projects' Give a Minute initiative to improve urban life.
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12.02.10: Photo by Thomas Struth
Vanishing PointBukseo Dong, Pyongyang, North Korea 2007. Photo by Thomas Struth
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11.19.10: Maria Popova
CEOs for Cities Community Challenge: Robust Public LifeA CEOs for Cities conference held in Detroit in November 2010 sought to define and quantify the magnetic force of a metropolis.
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11.17.10: Alexandra Lange
Dan WoodA conversation with WORKac architect Dan Wood about design, food and cities.
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10.07.10: Alexandra Lange
Uncommon GroundExhibition review of "Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement," Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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08.02.10: Jen Roos
Cup of HeroesThoughts on design, sports, and the author's return to a South African township during the World Cup.
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07.26.10: William Underhill
Map KiberaReport on the Map Kibera project to provide navigation and information on Nairobi's massive informal settlement.
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04.12.10: Mark Dery
Bunker of Broken DreamsReview of "Landscapes of Quarantine," Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York. March 9–April 17, 2010.
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01.14.10: Jane Margolies
Rising CurrentsReport on "Rising Currents," an exhibition of New York City design solutions to the flooding predicted by climate change experts, which will be on view at the Museum of Modern Art, March 24–August 9, 2010.
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11.23.09: Aspen Editors
Aspen Design Summit Report: Hale County Rural Poverty ProjectAt the Aspen Design Summit November 11–14, 2009, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute, the Hale County Rural Poverty Project conceived of a socio-economic model of resource allocation through an online platform for accelerated regional development in the Black Belt counties of rural Alabama.
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11.16.09: Jonathan Schultz
DESISReport on the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability project's latest home at New York's New School.
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11.04.09: By Alexis Rockman
Hot Times in the Old TownEast 82nd Street, 2007, painting from Alexis Rockman's American Icons series depicting future landscapes ravaged by climate change
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10.22.09: Ernest Beck
Medellín, ColombiaReport on the city officials who turned around a notorious drugs-and-murder capital, winning the 2009 Curry Stone Design Prize for Transformative Public Works.
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09.29.09: Bradford McKee
New Grub StreetInterview with photorapher Jonas Bendiksen following the opening of his exhibition "The Places We Live."
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09.09.09: Jeff Speck
New Words on the BlockJeff Speck reviews the Street Design Manual of the New York City Department of Transportation.
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08.21.09: Karrie Jacobs
A Thousand Points on Light: Part IIContinuation of debate between lighting designer Leni Schwendinger and Dark-Sky advocate Susan Harder about proper illumination of urban, suburban and rural environments.
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08.19.09: Karrie Jacobs
A Thousand Points on Light: Part IDebate between lighting designer Leni Schwendinger and Dark-Sky advocate Susan Harder about proper illumination of urban, suburban and rural environments.
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08.17.09: John Thackara
Get Out of Your Tents!In an interview with OK Do, John Thackara urges us to do real things in the real world.
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07.05.09: William Drenttel
Report from Hale County, AlabamaGreensboro Alabama is a city of contrasts, and a place where new design thinking is revealing itself in a surprising number of ways. An occasional report from Winterhouse Institute on its Design for Social Impact & Innovation Project.
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