In Surreal Twist, Court Orders Dalí’s Body Exhumed for Paternity Test
A Spanish court has ordered that the remains of Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí be exhumed to carry out a paternity test. According to the BBC, a Madrid judge ruled that because there are no other...
View ArticleTreasure hunters destroy historic hill
Treasure hunters have destroyed the Çağman Hill in the southern province of Antalya’s Korkuteli district.Breaking tomb relievos with heavy construction equipment, the treasure hunters also dug large...
View ArticleSuburbs Finally Figured Out a Way to Get Rid of Pesky Drivers on Waze Shortcuts
Los Altos, California has erected a new roadblock in its ongoing effort to keep drivers from cutting through residential neighborhoods, beckoned by the popular navigation app Waze.11. Source: Planetizen
View ArticleBloomberg’s Next Anti-Washington Move: $200 Million Program for Mayors
The former mayor of New York is launching the "American Cities Initiative." The initiative comes with a scathing critique of the federal government's treatment of urban areas.11. Source: Planetizen
View ArticleHow Mysuru missed the ‘Smart City’ bus yet again
After slipping to fifth place in the most recent Swachh rankings, Mysuru has missed the ‘Smart City’ bus yet again.Meanwhile, Bengaluru finally made it to the list of cities to be developed under the...
View ArticleScreen/Print #57: Dora Epstein Jones On Re-centering 'the Building' in...
Buildings, or How to Let Go of Forgettingby Dora Epstein Jones[T]radition proceeds by what might be called “selective amnesia,” each generation forgetting anything that had ceased to be of interest in...
View ArticleNCARB Adds More Schools to Accelerated Architecture Licensure Initiative
The National Council of Architectural Registration Board (NCARB) this weekend announced the acceptance of five additional schools into its Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure (IPAL) initiative.
View ArticleHow Alexandria's 'leaning tower' became an emblem of the city's corruption
The high-rise, which only had permission for four floors but stretched up to 13, was just one unsafe building among an estimated 14,500 in the city of Alexandria alone.
View ArticleAn ignoble end for Mosul’s al-Nuri Mosque and Minaret
The news of the destruction of the 12th-century Great Mosque of al-Nuri and the adjacent al-Hadba Minaret left me speechless ... No building is ever as important as the people living in a city. The...
View Article300-Foot-Wide Ancient Altar Excavated in China
In a remote corner of northwest China, a recently excavated 3,000-year-old sun altar offers clues to how the region's tribal cultures practiced religion thousands of years ago.The ruins were discovered...
View ArticleSummer School: Architecture and Philosophy (Dubrovnik, 11-16 Sep 17)
Between Intellectual and Sensory Reason: Towards an Epistemology of ArchitectureThroughout the history of philosophy, architecture has been widely referred to as a metaphor for conscious action and...
View ArticleMedieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places (Milton Keynes, 23 Feb 18)
Following a successful first workshop in February 2017, The Open University will be hosting a one-day conference on spaces and places on 23 February 2018, drawing upon the interdisciplinary research...
View ArticleOn Denmark's Jutland coast an elegant new museum counters a Nazi monolith
Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, the new Blåvand bunker hill museum in Denmark's West Jutland region will be opening to the public on June 30. Integrated into a historic sand dune next to the Nazi-era...
View ArticleAs Medical Cannabis Grows, So Does the Space Needed for It
Medical cannabis is doing a world of good, and we've barely scratched the surface of what that might look like. We're only going to learn more about cannabis, its weird parallel evolution with humanity...
View ArticleAs Urban Planners, We Must Ask: Who Are We?
The following is an edited version of a talk presented at Next City’s 2017 Vanguard conference.This started as a conversation about whether urban planning needed more diversity. But we soon determined...
View ArticleBook Review – The Smart City Transformations
‘The Smart City Transformation’ is a book written by Amitabh Satyam and Igor Calzada which talks about every feature of ‘Smart’. It deals with every aspect of becoming a ‘smart city’ and elucidates the...
View ArticleAnimals, not drought, shaped our ancestors' environment
The shores of Lake Turkana, in Kenya, are dry and inhospitable, with grasses as the dominant plant type. It hasn't always been that way. Over the last four million years, the Omo-Turkana basin has seen...
View ArticleOverbooking the City / an international urban design workshop / Dubrovnik...
Within an ever-more interconnected world the impacts of the transient flows of global tourism on urban societies, economies, nature, and the built environment, are both more intense and more diverse....
View ArticleAn exhibition at the Design Museum in London shows colour in a new light
Hella Jongerius, an influential Dutch designer and an art director for the interior brand Vitra, is challenging this prejudice in an exhibition at the Design Museum in London. Her aim in “Breathing...
View ArticleAtlanta Advocates Campaign to Set Aside Some Transit Funding to Keep Housing...
With a new wave of transit and active transportation investment coming to Atlanta, thanks to two new sales taxes, advocates are mobilizing to ensure that the investments won't leave low-income...
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