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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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11.21.11: Phil Patton
Audi Urban Future Summit 2011Report on one of the latest conferences to take on the global theme of the city
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07.07.11: Phil Patton
Boosting the Urban IQSummary of National Building Museum's "Intelligent Cities" symposium
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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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08.03.10: William Drenttel, Julie Lasky
Reasons Not to Be Pretty: Symposium on Design, Social Change and the “Museum”In April 2010, 22 designers, historians, curators, educators and journalists met at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy to discuss the museum’s potential role in relation to design for social change. This is a report on their conversation.
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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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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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06.14.06: John Thackara
Cities, Design and Democracy: Conversation with Sunil Abraham in ClusterJohn Thackara and Sunil Abraham sit down for an in-depth interview with Cluster Magazine.
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