Amazon's Mobile Stores Rolling Out Nationwide
Amazon has devised all kinds of ways to take their digital experience into physical spaces. ... With a year of testing the concept, and now a patented truck design, Amazon is rolling out a fleet of...
View ArticleForm-Based Design Standards for Smaller Communities
Communities with limited resources may find it difficult to create Form-Based Codes (FBC). In updating his book, Rural by Design, Randall Arendt looked at alternatives to FBC that are working for small...
View ArticlePrime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurates APJ Abdul Kalam Memorial In His...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the memorial on Dr Kalam's second death anniversary and paid his tributes. ... Until a year ago, the memorial work had not started and the site where Dr Kalam...
View ArticleCarbon dating confirms Keezhadi site is from Sangam era
For several years, experts had surmised that the archaeological site at Keezhadi in Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu dates back to the Sangam era.Now, carbon dating has confirmed that two samples sent...
View Article‘Plywood: Material of the Modern World’ at Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is hosting “Plywood: Material of the Modern World” featuring works by Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer and Charles and Ray Eames.
View ArticlePeace Initiatives and Urban Space in the 20th Century
The conference aims to shed light on the ambivalent status of cities and towns as both centres for peace initiatives and protest movements as well as objects of militarisation, as potential or actual...
View ArticlePooja Sood On Her Decades-Long Tryst With The Arts
To promote awareness of art and culture, it is important to have a space like the JKK. Sood points out, “We have lost many public spaces. At JKK everyone feels comfortable walking in, wearing their...
View ArticleWho Killed New York City?
Debut authors Jeremiah Moss (of the history Vanishing New York: How A Great City Lost Its Soul) and Tamara Shopsin (of the expert memoir Arbitrary Stupid Goal) both mention White’s classification...
View ArticleSmart City Mission loses sight of its mission for Panaji
It has been more than a year since the Union ministry for urban development selected Panaji city for development under its Smart City Mission.
View ArticleAhmedabad Municipal Corporation’s museum suffers from low footfall
During a session titled ‘Representing the city through a museum: The Case of Sanskar Kendra Museum at Ahmedabad’ at the Heritage Management Education and Practice conference held by Center for Heritage...
View ArticleA new lawsuit details various troubles at the world’s skinniest supertall
The best things in life are free, but construction cranes still cost money, which has prompted an investor to sue the developers behind SHoP's 111 West 57th Street for failing to budget appropriately...
View ArticleA Mapping Machine Identifies Wealth From Space
Penny is an artificial intelligence program that detects affluence from space. It also lets users experiment with how different visual forms affect its perception of an area's wealth.11. Source:...
View ArticleHypnotized by Elon Musk’s Hyperloop
Hyperloop, a futuristic transportation network that, its adherents say, will send paying customers through vacuum-powered tubes at speeds of up to seven hundred and sixty miles per hour—from San...
View ArticleDetroit Emerges From The Shunning
The decline of Detroit can't be completely explained by the decline of the U.S. auto industry, according to an editorial commemorating the 50th anniversary of a five-day period of rioting and protest...
View ArticleEmerging typologies in Dhaka can teach us about the future of housing
When researcher Shreyasi Dasgupta introduced us with a new type of building she had observed in Dhaka, we were fascinated by the kind of need and intent they revealed. In Dhaka, local builders have...
View ArticleCommunity structure of copper supply networks in the prehistoric Balkans: An...
In the first ever archaeological study of its kind, two researchers have combined the chemical analyses of dozens of the world's earliest copper artefacts and modularity approach in order to identify...
View ArticleTeju Cole Has Not Stopped Looking or Thinking
Teju Cole was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1975, raised in Lagos, Nigeria, and educated in England and America, where he earned a degree in art history. The author of three well-received books (two...
View ArticleBad Housing Policies Worsening Slums Around the World
When people live in slums, the way to improve their lives is to empower the people living there rather than to attack the slums themselves. Richard Florida argues that when cities try to move or...
View ArticleShovel-ready Bethlehem Steel parcel called a 'game changer'
Officials in Erie County believe the former home of Bethlehem Steel, south of Buffalo, will be attractive to manufacturers given its proximity to Lake Erie and various highways and rail lines.11....
View ArticleFalse claims for Swachhta ranking to cost cities dear
False claims about sanitation infrastructure and their usage to improve rankings in the Swachhta index will cost municipal bodies dear.
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