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MATERIA ARQUITECTURA JOURNAL N°13: Technology: Digital Material

In the early 1990s, the use of digital technologies in architecture became popular, and some warned of the risks of the excessive virtualization of architecture and the emergence of a ‘cyberspace’...

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Dropped from Incredible India, Big B now onboard Swachh Bharat

Amitabh Bachchan has been approached by the Centre to be the "face" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet 'Swachh Bharat' programmme.

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'Paradoxical Southeast Asia'

ABE Journal Issue 11, 2017; guest edited by Caroline Herbelin, maître de conférences, Université Toulouse Le Mirail.

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Obit: Anil Laul

Delhi-based architect and urban planner Anil Laul, known for his low-cost technologies, passed away Tuesday. He was 71.

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Chasing The Ghosts Of Coventry Village by Brad Masi

An excerpt from The Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook (Belt Publishing, 2016).

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The Place of Water in Urban Design: An International Perspective

How cities around the world have approached thinking about how water management fits in to urban planning.

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Varanasi is all set to become a smart city with its six-pillar plan

The holy city of Varanasi, which also serves as Prime Minister Modi's constituency, has made a six-pillar plan, called the 'Smart-Kashi' plan, which has been submitted to the centre. The plan has been...

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Recognizing urban India

The country is more urban than we think. Policymakers are finally coming round to accepting this reality

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Two sessions - Settlement and Landscape I & II; 52nd International Congress...

52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies “Kalamazoo” May 11–14 2017

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Inventing the Beach: The Unnatural History of a Natural Place

The seashore used to be a scary place, then it became a place of respite and vacation. What happened?

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The 40-year hangover: how the 1976 Olympics nearly broke Montreal

The Montreal Olympics left the city with a C$1.6bn debt, a string of corruption scandals, and a creeping sense of economic and social decline.

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How does an architect reflect the life of a city in an abstract skyscraper?

via Archinect

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The Samosa mela at Shivajinagar

The Samosa Mela at Shivajinagar is a study conducted as part of a CEPT-CPP Summer school on The Everyday City that was held in June 2016 at the IIM Bangalore campus. It was a collaborative effort...

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SMART CITY TENDER PROCESS VIOLATES ALL NORMS: UCCI

Anomalies seen in the recently-released RPF (Request for Proposal) and PQ (prequalification) have worried many.

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India’s urban fantasy: Deconstructing the real estate myth

Analysing advertisements as windows into urban identities, Chandni Singh makes a case for dispelling urban real estate myths and reimagining...

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Learning from 'Zoned American'

Reexamining the Origins of Zoning

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PICTURESQUE MODERNITIES. Architectural Regionalism as a Global Process...

German Center for Art History, Hôtel Lully, 45, rue des Petits-Champs, 75001 Paris/France, 30.11. - 02.12.2016

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How Anti-Growth Sentiment, Reflected in Zoning Laws, Thwarts Equality

Zoning as a Tool of Social and Economic Inequality

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Hacking the City: A new model for urban renewal

“What we’ve done is change the software of the city,” Westbury told me. “We’ve changed how it behaves. We’ve changed how it responds to people who want to try things, do things, and run their own...

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'Largest-ever' Silicon Valley eviction to displace hundreds of tenants

Between 2000 and 2013, the number of low-income households in the Bay Area increased by 10%, but the region lost 50% of units defined affordable for this population, according to researchers at the...

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