EAHN 2017: Histories in Conflict: Cities | Buildings | Landscapes
EAHN Themed Conference (Jerusalem, 13-15 Jun 17)
View ArticleToward a Geography of Architectural Criticism (Paris/Rennes, 3-4 Apr 17)
The research project Mapping.Crit.Arch: Architectural criticism 20th and 21st centuries, a cartography, funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche, aims to develop a field of research on the...
View Article'Dancehall, Music and the City' - Global Reggae Conference 2017
The Institute of Caribbean Studies and the Reggae Studies Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus announce the fifth biennial Global Reggae Conference under the theme "Dancehall, Music...
View ArticleCities, Communities and Homes: Is the Urban Future Livable? - 22–23 June 2017...
The complexity of our cities is well documented. The economies they are based on are multiple. Some are growing exponentially, others are shrinking. Some pride themselves on architectural heritage,...
View ArticleEKPHRASIS. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media Vol. 17, Issue 1/2017 , The Ghost in...
From Metropolis (1927) to Ex Machina (2015), from A Space Odyssey (1968) to The Matrix (1999), from Blade Runner (1982) to Her (2013), science fiction cinema has imagined countless modes of narrating...
View Article11th International ANAMED Annual Symposium: Sacred Spaces + Urban Networks
Throughout history, the relationship between sacred spaces and the development of urban settlements has been a familiar phenomenon for almost all Anatolian civilizations. This symposium investigates...
View Article7th European Conference on African Studies ECAS: Urban Africa - Urban...
The Centre for African Studies Basel and the Swiss Society for African Studies on behalf of AEGIS (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies) invite you to submit paper proposals for the 7th...
View ArticleLord Krishna's abode to scale new heights
Five hundred and eighty-five reinforced concrete beams of one metre in diametre and 50 metre length—that's the height of nearly 15 storeys—are being driven into a five acre site in Vrindavan, the town...
View ArticleCircular migration is holding back India’s urbanization
Between 2001 and 2011 census, India’s urbanization went up from 27.8% to 31.1%. Not only is the number far from impressive, it also makes Panagariya’s predictions way too optimistic. What explains this...
View ArticleFrank Gehry building has globs of sealant falling from windows
The curvy, twisted glass facade of media mogul Barry Diller’s IAC Building on West 18th Street and 11th Avenue is facing a sticky problem: The window sealant has become a dripping, opaque blob,...
View ArticleAn Economic Explanation of New York City's Skyline
A recent study by Jason Barr and Troy Tassier in Journal of Regional Scienceproposes a different explanation: Midtown attracted a specific cluster of businesses and occupations that saw promise in its...
View ArticleHow Mysuru became India’s ‘cleanest city’
A visit to the city’s Kumbarakoppal ward is a useful starting point in understanding how this city remains so enviably clean. The ward, home to a waste-sorting site called a “zero waste management...
View ArticleTrump Tower and the Militarization of Urban Public Space
Trump’s election has turned his stretch of Fifth into the urban equivalent of the security line at JFK: Aluminum barriers squeeze traffic into a pair of lanes, sidewalks are blocked off, and...
View ArticleCan Indigenous culture ever coexist with urban planning?
Given the increasingly polarising debate (not least within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities) over how recognition might look, this is a prescient and timely book that considers...
View ArticlePlywood Substitute for Vacant Houses Gets National Backer
One home with 4-foot-tall weeds, a sagging porch, and broken or boarded-up windows becomes two, which spreads to four and soon a whole block is falling apart.
View ArticleTo Build “Smart Cities,” Look to the Cloud
To be successful, city leaders must make some critical policy and technology decisions, ensuring that the cloud platform they adopt reflects community policies and global standards, such as those...
View ArticleRichard Rogers: Why democracy needs public space
When I visit a foreign city, it is the public spaces and shared experiences that I remember, as much as the façades or interiors of individual buildings.Architecture is not about buildings viewed in...
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