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As authorities prepared to evict its residents, a reporter spent six weeks in Dallas’ biggest homeless camp.
View ArticleRio: The War of the Favelas by Larry Rohter
Although visitors lured by the prospect of sun, surf, samba, and soccer may not perceive it, Rio de Janeiro is actually two very distinct cities. Some five million people live at or near sea level in...
View ArticleCall for abstract proposals for an edited book: Ficto-Critical Approaches to...
Following the success of the recent symposium Ficto-Critical Approaches to a Writing Architecture, hosted on 4 & 5 August 2016 at the ATCH Research Centre in the School of Architecture at the...
View ArticlePaolo Soleri Amphitheater featured at SITE Santa Fe Biennial
SITE Santa Fe presents SITElines.2016: New Perspectives on Art of the Americas
View ArticleHow air-conditioning made America — and how it could break us all
The environmental and social costs of ACAC comes with a host of problems. It is undoubtedly true that air-conditioning saves lives, especially among vulnerable populations like the elderly, but it also...
View ArticleSeeing African Cities in Transition
An exhibition showcases the works of three photographers who capture the chaos of a rapidly urbanizing continent.
View ArticleOfficialspeak: Corbusier was reluctant to take up Chandigarh project, reveals...
“I was offered the Chandigarh Project at the Indian Coffee house at London in 1949 by the first high commissioner of Independent India, VK Krishna Menon,” says Chandigarh’s first Indian chief architect...
View ArticleWelcome to AirSpace
How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world
View ArticleWhy the romance of Brexit bloomed in Philip Larkin’s industrial suburbia
The leave vote was driven by a London elite that appropriated ‘Europe’ and forgot about working-class cosmopolitanism
View ArticleBritain's Second City Fights to Save Its Brutalist Architecture
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View ArticleThe Peruvian temple that hints at the origin of religion
A lost temple could teach us about how modern society is structured.
View ArticleQuotation: What Does History Have in Store for Architecture Today?
The 34th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), 5-8 July 2017, Canberra, A
View ArticleOver 2 lakh houses built under central schemes in the last two years: Govt...
"During the last two years, 2,23,814 houses have been constructed under JNNURM, RAY, PMAY-U by implementing agencies," Minister of State for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Rao Inderjit Singh...
View ArticleWhy NIMBYs And Their Haters Can’t Offer a Deep Solution to the Seattle’s...
Hear writer and activist Cary Moon talk about solutions to Seattle's housing crisis
View ArticleNow mutual funds can hold 10 per cent in housing finance companies
MUMBAI: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has doubled the limit on permissible holding of bonds of housing finance companies (HFCs) by mutual funds as it aims to support Prime Minister...
View ArticleVijayawada Set for Krishna Pushkaralu, Over 3.5 Crore People to Take Holy Dip
Shruti, a student of school of planning and architecture said, "We tried to show different aspects of Vijayawada. So people coming to Pushkaralu festival can know what Vijayawada is - like Mangalagiri...
View ArticleRem review – jet-setting portrait of world’s most talked-about architect
Globe-trotting documentary by Rem Koolhaas’s son Tomas finds the film-maker racing to keep up with his 71-year-old father and struggling to achi
View ArticleWe are far, far away from smart cities, says Narayana Murthy
Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy on August 11 said the country was “far, far away” from realising the ambition of developing smart cities, a flagship programme of the Narendra Modi government....
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