Military Interdictions of Drawing and Artistic Practice (Berlin, 5 - 6 Nov 15)
Prohibitions of drawing topographies or architecture have rarely been a topic of art history or visual studies, although they can be accounted for in Europe since the 16th century. Such interdictions...
View ArticleUsing Legos as a Legitimate Urban Planning Tool
The project is a collaboration between the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, the Changing Places group at the MIT Media Lab, and the Barr Foundation, all of whom are are using the new tool...
View ArticleFrom SimCity to, well, SimCity: The history of city-building games
....It's strange to consider how healthy the market is for city-building games today, given how squalid it was just a few years ago. Besides the flawed SimCity 2013 edition and the exemplary Cities:...
View ArticleThe crisis of London’s creative class
London’s creative classes are caught up in an urban renewal hamster wheel that’s escalating property prices across the capital – and there’s no way off without leaving the city entirely. The result...
View ArticleEvent: Uber Urbanism | The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture,...
What is a "global city”? Are distinctions such as urban and rural, society and nature, or city and suburb still useful? When almost all the earth’s surface is subject to human technological...
View ArticleCons - Kerry pushes for US leadership role at UNESCO
PARIS(AP): US secretary of state John Kerry on Sunday launched a charm offensive at UNESCO in a bid to keep America's seat on the world cultural agency's executive board despite not having paid...
View ArticleGovernment plans vouchers to subsidise rent for urban poor | The Indian Express
Language English THE MINISTRY of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation is considering introduction of subsidies, in the form of direct benefit transfer, that would be provided to economically weaker...
View ArticleRTI finds 32 month delay in Mumbai Police HQ building, cost up by Rs 22.55...
Language English Four commissioners have come and gone but the new seven-floor building at the Mumbai Police headquarters at Crawford Market is far from completion.RTI activist Anil Galgali sought...
View ArticleCFP: Island Dynamics | Culture in Urban Space - Copenhagen, 2016 |...
Language English The city cannot be understood in terms of its buildings, infrastructures, and physical geography alone. Urban materiality is inextricably linked with city life: Urban spaces are...
View ArticleSeminar: Development, Dissent and Architecture in the building of Modern...
Language English Peter Scriver, Centre for Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA), University of AdelaideChair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of...
View ArticleCONF: Discipline and Doctrine (Chicago, 22 Nov 15)
Language English UIC's Art History Graduate Student Association is hosting a symposium "Discipline and Doctrine" in honor of Professor Peter B. Hales. Victoria H. F. Scott will deliver her keynote,...
View ArticleCFP, Issue 2, Volume 8, Literophile: "Victoriana: Class, Capital, Manners"
Language English It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the...
View Article[CFP] Mapping the Past: GIS Approaches to Ancient History (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Language English The Ancient World Mapping Center at UNC-Chapel Hill seeks paper proposals for Mapping the Past, a conference on digital mapping and its applications to the study of ancient history....
View ArticleEditorial: Smart city, Amaravati | The Financial Express
Language English Amaravati, the new capital of Andhra Pradesh (AP)—prime minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone later today, on Dussehra—could well be the test bed for urbanisation in...
View ArticleBook, PR: Urban Design: India’s remarkable urban moment - ET Blogs
Language English India is experiencing a remarkable urban moment.… This book examines the changing dynamics of political power in Indian cities and their implications for the spatial and social...
View ArticleAMRUT projects for 89 cities in AP, Gujarat & Rajasthan worth Rs. 2,786 cr...
Language English The Ministry of Urban Development has approved the first batch of state level Action Plans under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) aimed at enabling water...
View ArticleReports of India changing its negative voting pattern on Israel prove...
Language English On Wednesday, the executive board of UNESCO, the UN’s cultural heritage agency, passed a one-sided resolution that solely condemned Israel’s aggression on the Temple Mount, and...
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