D.C. Mayor: City’s Taking Affordable Housing to “Next Level”
With nearly 14,000 affordable housing covenants set to expire by 2020, and 1,000 new residents moving to Washington, D.C., each month, the city’s “Housing Preservation Strike Force” released a set of...
View ArticleArchitecture meets mythology in opera by Patrick Braga '17
Patrick Braga ’17 has brought his academic interests in urban planning, architecture and music together in his latest opera, “Eyes That Do Not See (Opus 42).”Based on the work and ideas of the...
View ArticleBritish Solutions for India's Smart Cities
The buzzword at the India-UK Tech Summit has been 'Smart Cities'. Not because the British delegation sees this as a new way to recolonise India, but because it leads the way globally and stands to gain...
View ArticleVirtual realty: can a computer game turn you into an ‘evil’ property developer?
It’s fun being a virtual landlord. I’ve been playing Project Highrise, a PC and Mac real estate management simulation, since the game’s release in September. It gives cash-strapped renters like me a...
View ArticleUnited Kingdom team vows better ties with Telangana State
State Legislative Assembly Speaker S Madhusudhana Chary on Wednesday sought cooperation of the United Kingdom in the development of IT, pharma and Smart Cities in Telangana. A delegation of the UK MPs...
View ArticlePolitics, thrills or social media: what drives the new breed of urban explorer?
“The community has changed drastically,” says Bradley Garrett, author of Explore Everything: Place-hacking the City. “A lot of these kids are putting themselves at greater risk to gain credibility on...
View ArticleMy Journey Into Aleppo: Watching a Moonscape of War Turn Into a Functioning City
The destroyed buildings are in an area that was long held by rebels. The worst of the damage looks like the result of airstrikes. Only the government and, for the past year, its ally Russia have...
View ArticleProud to be a Namibian – Schimming-Chase
Veteran politician Nora Schimming-Chase yesterday told The Namibian on the eve of her 76th birthday that she is proud to be a Namibian.What is particularly special to her is the way Namibians deal with...
View ArticleHiroshi Sugimoto's Ghostly Images of Empty Movie Theaters
Without an image frozen on the screen, the theaters look unmoored, like they could exist anywhere. But the 130 scenes collected in his new book, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters (Damiani, $60), actually...
View ArticleLiam Young’s Future City Fiction
Young produces films, performances and objects with his think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today. In this way, Liam Young shares his versatile knowledge of the contemporary city: he examines it, giving...
View ArticleCivic Masterpieces, and Nightmares, Unrealized
Most of the what-ifs were culled by the authors, both of them architectural critics and historians, from 19th- and 20th-century and contemporary blueprints. They will be featured at the Queens Museum...
View ArticleLPU and Indian Institute of Architects organizing International Architectural...
After the grand success of NICHE 2014, and completion of 100 years of Indian institute of Architects (IIAs), Lovely Professional University in collaboration with IIAs (Chandigarh Punjab Chapter) is...
View ArticleResearch and Education in Urban History (Dresden, 30-31 Mar 17)
Urban history, drawing on architectural heritage and cultural history, is one of the key areas in digital humanities. Regarding to that research interest, digital libraries play an important role,...
View ArticleWorld Histories of Architecture (Munich, 14 Dec 2016)
Histories of architecture covering the whole world were (and are still being) published from the beginning of the eighteenth century until today. Paradigms, approaches and theories changed dramatically...
View ArticleTamil Nadu planning body is in a 'confused state'
CHENNAI: A cluttered stream of opinion from various quarters on how to tackle complications in urban development is leaving the Tamil Nadu planning agency in a confused state of mind, said housing and...
View ArticleCREDAI to revive security award
Chairman of CREDAI K. Rama Krishna Rao on Saturday announced this at the curtain-raiser function for its property show scheduled in December.A cheque for Rs.2.5 lakh was handed over to winner of the...
View ArticleArchitecture and Society Series - Nov 17th - The Delhi Neighbourhood Museum...
Architecture and Society Series. The Delhi Neighbourhood Museum Programme - a Community-based Museographic Practice Speaker: Surajit Sarkar, Associate Professor and Coordinator, Centre for Community...
View ArticleThe last station: Burhan Sönmez on gentrification, fire and protest in Istanbul
If you are an author in Turkey you are destined to write about Istanbul sooner or later. I have come to that point in my third novel, Istanbul Istanbul. When I was working on it, my mother — my...
View ArticleMoot, art exhibition on ‘People and the City’ kicks off
The 7th international THAAP conference titled “People and the City” started on Friday and will continue until Sunday. THAAP Photography Conference and an art exhibition in collaboration with Ejaz Art...
View Article