Counterpoint: D.C.'s Carnegie Library Is a Fine Place for an Apple Store
Washington D.C. recently announced plans to lease the Carnegie Library, a landmarked Beaux-Arts building built in 1903, to Apple for a new flagship retail store. Many have applauded the proposal, which...
View ArticleBuilders misusing the name of PM Awas Yojna
A source familiar with the real estate sector, told The Sunday Guardian that there are complaints regarding collection of cash from the poor for providing EWS houses. “Cases of fraud are taking place,...
View ArticleThe Comeback Investment in Cities
As locally owned and controlled companies become the exception rather than the rule, how can a city restore the local benefits such firms once bestowed, spark investments in the region, and unite...
View ArticleGoa government puts conservation panel back
PANAJI: The town and country planning (TCP) department has reconstituted the 13-member conservation committee headed by the TCP minister as chairman as per the provisions of Goa land development and...
View ArticleBeauty amid the chaos: a snapshot of Syrian cities through Instagram
In Syria, this isn’t always easy. The government sporadically cuts off access to the internet to disrupt the activities of their opponents. Nevertheless, there are Instagrammers who have remained...
View ArticleBill creates blueprint for more housing construction
At the center of our blueprint package is SB 540, the Workforce Housing Opportunity Zone, by state Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside. SB 540 would give local governments new tools to plan for housing and...
View ArticleReview: At the Frye, learn how discarded furniture in India finds its way to...
Siegel’s steady tracking shots reveal whole floors full of junked chairs, tables and bookcases.How are they transformed into something so outlandishly expensive?Well, it helps that each individual...
View ArticleThe case for preserving — and improving — brutalist architecture
Brutalist architecture in the United States emerged in the 1960s, the era of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, when progressive designers wanted to create buildings that fit their...
View ArticleForm separate team for PMAY approvals, state govt tells Mhada
Mumbai: Admitting that there have been delays in approving projects under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), the state government in a government resolution (GR) agreed...
View ArticleOvercrowding, a Precursor to Homelessness, is Increasing Citywide: Report by...
NEW YORK CITY — In a new report assessing threats to affordable housing citywide, advocates say one issue is getting even worse: overcrowding.In the five boroughs, the rate of severely overcrowded...
View ArticleTale of Two Cities: Unravelling the Brutal Backstory Behind Africa’s Emerging...
Many of the ultra-modern and beautifully designed mega cities of Africa hide the old problems of haves and have nots. In the shadows of impressive new skyscrapers are areas without roads, clean water...
View ArticleAirport Road Beautificatioin in Dhaka: What's it for?
Although it is the job of the city corporations, the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has embarked on a Tk 90 crore beautification and pavement maintenance work on the capital's Airport Road.The...
View ArticleThe Smart City Transformations: The Revolution of The 21st Century
According to Satyam and Calzada, the internet of things (IoT) is at the foundation of the Smart concept. Sensors create data elements. Data generated by these sensors are converted to a suitable...
View ArticlePutting Rural Wisconsin On The Map: Understanding Rural-Urban Divides...
Wisconsin provides a case study in the varied methods for defining rural, and why that matters. ... Jones notes that demographers and social geographers use several methods to identify areas as rural,...
View ArticleExperiments in Moving Image: Films From the Creative Documentary Course
Please join us for an evening of film screenings from the Creative Documentary Course (CDC), Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication (SACAC).Chaaya (From the Shadows), Dir. Nundrisha Wakhloo,...
View ArticleSIX (6) scholarships to attend the three year Ph.D. Programme in Urban...
The Department of Sociology and Social Research of the, Italy, is offering 6 Ph.D. scholarships to attend its Ph.D. Programme in Urban Studies, a European doctoral programme that is networked with a...
View ArticleNew Territories: Landscape Representation in Contemporary Photographic Practices
This three-day workshop gathers international scholars and artists to reflect upon photographic practices that focus on the representations of natural and built environments in contemporary Europe....
View ArticleVijayawada: SPAV to start operations in new campus
VIJAYAWADA: The campus of School of Planning and Architecture Vijayawada (SPAV), situated near Andhra Loyola college, is all set to start its operations. A few students will be shifted to the new...
View ArticleJoelho 8 - Ideas and Practices for the European City
Guest Editors: José António Bandeirinha, Luís Miguel Correia and Nelson Mo
View ArticleMumbai Plans To Revamp Major Chawls Upsets Tenants Paying Rs 20 A Month
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Madhuri Dewar remembers her wedding in 1981 in the tenement building where she had lived all her life: guests sat in the colourful tent in the courtyard, packed...
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