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’...
View ArticleDropped 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.
View Article'Paradoxical Southeast Asia'
ABE Journal Issue 11, 2017; guest edited by Caroline Herbelin, maître de conférences, Université Toulouse Le Mirail.
View ArticleObit: Anil Laul
Delhi-based architect and urban planner Anil Laul, known for his low-cost technologies, passed away Tuesday. He was 71.
View ArticleChasing The Ghosts Of Coventry Village by Brad Masi
An excerpt from The Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook (Belt Publishing, 2016).
View ArticleThe 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.
View ArticleVaranasi 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...
View ArticleRecognizing urban India
The country is more urban than we think. Policymakers are finally coming round to accepting this reality
View ArticleTwo sessions - Settlement and Landscape I & II; 52nd International Congress...
52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies “Kalamazoo” May 11–14 2017
View ArticleInventing 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?
View ArticleThe 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.
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleSMART CITY TENDER PROCESS VIOLATES ALL NORMS: UCCI
Anomalies seen in the recently-released RPF (Request for Proposal) and PQ (prequalification) have worried many.
View ArticleIndia’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...
View ArticlePICTURESQUE 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
View ArticleHow Anti-Growth Sentiment, Reflected in Zoning Laws, Thwarts Equality
Zoning as a Tool of Social and Economic Inequality
View ArticleHacking 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...
View Article'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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