Drawing Millions of Plans
This conference invites scholars and practitioners to investigate and discuss contemporary architectural drawing and, in particular, the drawn plan. We will consider various types of drawing ranging...
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Graduate Student Symposium, University of Southern California, Department of Art History
View ArticleKarnataka looks to develop satellite cities to decongest Bengaluru
Karnataka govt plans to develop a new city at Kolar Gold Fields by converting around 12,000 acres land held by the defunct Bharat Gold Mines
View ArticleIndia's 1st mortgage guarantee firm launches cover for Pradhan Mantri Awas...
NEW DELHI: India Mortgage Guarantee Corporation (IMGC), the country's first of its kind company, has launched a guarantee cover for Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) to broaden the coverage of home...
View ArticleBanksy's New Hotel Highlights a City Under Occupation
The street artist’s latest installation, The Walled Off Hotel, sits just 13 feet from Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank city of Bethl
View ArticleGovt plans to bring architecture institutions under urban development ministry
Soon, all architecture engineering colleges including all SPAs (Schools of Planning & Architecture) and institutes such as Mumbai’s JJ School of Architecture and Ahmedabad’s CEPT University will be...
View ArticleNagpur, Indore and Surat lead implementation of smart city plan
NEW DELHI: Nagpur, Indore, Surat, Vadodara and Udaipur are doing better in the implementation of smart city plans in comparison to other cities that have been selected for smart city project, according...
View ArticleUrban agencies merger on the cards
KOLKATA: The Mamata Banerjee government's plan to merge the century-old Kolkata Improvement Trust (KIT) and the two and a half decade old Kolkata Metropolitan Water and sanitation Authority (KMWSA)...
View ArticleIndia Gets Its First-Ever 'Pod Hotel' That Shows How Space Can Be Managed In...
Mumbai, a beautiful city that is lacking space, has opened its doors to the country's first ever 'pod hotel'. Courtesy Urbanpod, the initiative brings a high-tech yet a compact living space that will...
View Article'Smart Decline' Is Dumb - Why Cities Can't 'Manage Decline'
We don’t know the future. Rust Belt cities need to stop planning that there isn’t one.
View ArticleDevelopment plan raises fears for a Le Corbusier gem
Moscow’s Tsentrosoyuz building, which stands as a monument to modernist architecture, may soon be overshadowed by a large business centre
View ArticleQS releases 2016 international architecture school rankings
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View ArticleGovernment Plans To Pay Rents For The Urban Poor In The Smart Cities, Says...
Under the new plan, rent vouchers will be given to people below poverty line(BPL)
View ArticleThe Disappearing Mass Housing of the Soviet Union
The Khrushchyovkas helped solve the USSR’s housing crisis after World War II. Now, Moscow plans to demolish 8,000 of them
View ArticleWhat If We Stopped Considering Housing an Investment?
Why Falling Home Prices Could Be a Good Thing
View ArticleMateriality, Objects and Objecthood
Special Issue Open Cultural Studies / De Gruyter, editor: Professor Erick Felinto (State University of Rio de Janeiro)
View ArticleDon’t Think of a Mammophant
Spending limited resources on de-extinction could lead to net biodiversity loss
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