Essay: The problem with ornament
Ornament begins as luxury. The more ornamented a building, a piece of clothing or an item of jewellery, the more labour has gone into its production and the more expensive it is. The Industrial...
View ArticleBJP blames Opposition for 'inciting' public over Smart City issue, says J&K...
Jammu: Hitting out at the opposition parties, BJP on Friday blamed them for inciting public by spreading lies that the government denied smart cities to Jammu and Kashmir.The party also assured that...
View ArticleCrores for smart cities, nothing for model villages: Congress MP Shantaram...
PANAJI: Congress parliamentarian Shantaram Naik on Thursday accused the central government of discriminating against villages, vis-a-vis the cities.The Rajya Sabha MP said that while crores of rupees...
View ArticleChasing definitions in India - Livemint
The Union government’s practice of organizing schemes and regulations based on rural-urban categories has created high stakes in these labels. As a result, the categorization of settlements can become...
View ArticleCONS: Old Delhi special in name only - The Times of India
NEW DELHI: 'Special Area' status has done little for the lakhs of residents and traders of Shahjahanabad, Sadar Bazaar, Karol Bagh and Paharganj. The redevelopment plan for the area, proposed in Master...
View ArticleWhat the City of Surat, India, Learned From a Preventable Flood - CityLab
About 100 kilometers (60 miles) upstream from Surat, water from heavy rains built up behind the Ukai Dam. Rather than releasing the water gradually, the dam’s managers unleashed a deluge all at once,...
View ArticleScripts: She studied chemistry, wanted law, became an accountant, but chose...
Ibukun Awosika, managing director of The Chair Centre, has been announced as the first female chairman of First Bank of Nigeria (FBN).Awosika’s emergence as the bank’s first female chairman marks the...
View ArticleNeed to Focus on Smart Villages, Not Smart Cities: Azam | Sep 08, 2015
Criticising the Smart City project of the NDA government, Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan today said emphasis should be rather given on developing "smart villages" to reduce migration of people from...
View ArticleOnline approvals for housing projects near monuments - The Times of India on...
Culture ministry has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for survey and mapping of all 3,686 protected monuments. These will be uploaded on the web for enabling the municipal authorities to...
View ArticleFwd: 2 weeks to go for 2016 City of Dreams
Since Governors Island first opened to the public in 2004, the attention and interest that this new public place has received has increased exponentially. In2014, roughly 500,000 people visited the...
View ArticlePublication: Bucky Inc. Architecture in the Age of Radio
Bucky Inc. offers a deep exploration of Richard Buckminster Fuller’s work and thought to shed new light on the questions raised by our increasingly electronic world. It shows that Fuller’s entire...
View ArticleCFP: The Architecture of Deregulations: Postmodernism, Politics and the Built...
If modernism in European architecture is associated with a socialist agenda and the implementation of the welfare state, shaped by architects in close proximity to politicians, the role and identity of...
View ArticleCFP: Frauenfrage und Architektur (Leipzig, 8-9 Apr 2016)
Frauenfrage und Architektur. Räume für Geschlechterutopien vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur GegenwartNach einigen Jahrzehnten weitgehender Abwesenheit ist der Begriff „Utopie“ wieder in Gebrauch gekommen....
View ArticleCFP: Eighteenth-Century Painting and/as Decoration (ASECS, 31 Mar-3 Apr 16)
Please e-mail proposals for 20-minute papers to Y-jackall at nga.gov AND kbrion at kzoo.edu by September 15, 2015.
View ArticleMontparnasse to become Paris's Times Square
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has suggested the area around the Tour Montparnasse skyscraper could become the Times Square of the French capital. Now its owners plan to try and make that dream come...
View ArticleSmart Cities Could Hold Hope for India's Rural Poor
If Mr. Modi is indeed serious about an overhaul of Indian cities, he would be undertaking one of the greatest humanitarian tasks in the world. As things stand, all Indian cities are broken even by the...
View Article[in-enaction] ACLA 2016 (March 17-20) Seminar "Structures and Cultures of the...
We invite historians of literature, the arts, science, and religion to collaborate with us to explore the fundamental role that sensory culture had in early modern culture. The objects offered to the...
View ArticleUnwelcome Mat Is Out at Some of New York’s Privately Owned Public Spaces -...
Privately owned public spaces, or POPS, are a quintessential New York real estate amenity that grants building owners zoning bonuses if they open part of their properties to the public. At Trump Tower...
View ArticleThe Mismanagment Behind a 26-Lane Traffic Jam on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway...
In the Indian capital of Delhi, traffic is part of life as commuters routinely find themselves snarled in miles-long gridlock. And a series of photos tweeted out by social activist Anil Sood, who’s...
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