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Why Land Use Planning Matters More Than Ever: The Atlantic Cities
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Rolling with Ever-Changing Gas Prices: Lessons from my dumb luck: Place Shakers and News Makers
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How The “Internet Of Things” Is Turning Cities Into Living Organisms: Fast Company
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The Death of the Fringe Suburb : The New York Times
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A McDonald’s for Architecture Snobs: The Atlantic Cities
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PARSING PEAVEY: The Architects News Paper
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Jane Jacobs and the Power of Women Planners : The Atlantic Cities
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America’s 20 Dirtiest Cities : Forbes
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Critic’s Notebook: What L.A. might ask of Eli Broad: Los Angeles TimesElizabeth
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Jane Jacobs and the Power of Women Planners : The Atlantic Cities
Fifty years ago this month, Jane Jacobs published Death and Life of Great American Cities and changed the way the world understands cities. Yet even when she’s acknowledged as an important... -
America’s 20 Dirtiest Cities : Forbes
California has gone to extremes to improve the state’s air quality, pushing out coal-fired power plants and implementing the strictest auto emissions standards in the nation. L.A.’s persistent smog layer may... -
142 GHMC plots go missing in Hyderabad!: IBNLive
HYDERABAD: Over 50 percent of the properties belonging to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation are either missing or have been encroached upon in various mandals of Hyderabad. This came to... -
Lisbon named European City of the Year 2012
Lisbon has recently again proved its worth by conquering more stripes. This week Portugal’s charismatic capital was promoted among London’s executives after recently being distinguished by the Academy of Urbanism... -
Urban Legend: Remembering Why Cities Matter: Kcet.org
Cities are hot. That’s true physically, for they are energy sinks, pulling in massive amounts of mega-wattage to light up their expanse; an ocean of fossil fuels to generate heat and... -
Steep Hill in Lincoln wins best place award: BBC
Lincoln’s Steep Hill was one of three streets chosen by the academy, whose role is to promote best practice in planning and urbanism. It was up against Byres Road in Glasgow... -
Artists build a skillful ‘Architectural View’ at Prographica : The Seattle Times
Architecture contains many metaphors: the house stands in for family, the skyscraper for power, a series of rooms for the discovery of self or the divine. Rather than hinting at hidden... -
National Highway Authority of India plans swanky makeover of 10 highways across 11 states : The Economic times
Your long drive on highways is set for a smooth and swanky makeover with National Highway Authority of India deciding to set up foodcourt complexes, multiplexes, ATMs and amusement... -
Growth Spurt : Architects Newspaper
As building technology races ahead, science propels it to help meet new and ever-changing standards. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the breakneck tempo of progress was fueled largely by... -
Architecture and Evolutionary Psychology: The Preservation Institute
Vernacular and traditional buildings have common features that create places people are comfortable with. This is what Christopher Alexander calls “the timeless way of building.” Modernists abandoned... -
Has postmodernist design eaten itself?: Guardian.co.uk
When Daryl Hannah decorates Charlie Sheen’s apartment in Oliver Stone’s 1987 movie Wall Street, she whips up a quintessential postmodernist pastiche. The faux-ruined walls and clashing colours personify the aspirations... -
Govt’s definition of urban-rural poor fails ground reality test: India Today
The Planning Commission’s affidavit in the Supreme Court that Rs 32 a day in urban areas and Rs 26 a day in rural areas is enough for a family to...
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The Stress of Crowds: Scientific American
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The Incredible Shrinking Megastore: Retailers Think Outside the Big Box : DC Streets Blog
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How Design Can Save NYC When The Next Big Storm Hits: Fast Company.co.uk
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Weekend Panorama: Who Will Champion India’s Cities? : India Real Time, The Wall street Journal
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Q&A | Interview with World Trade Center Site Architect Daniel Libeskind : WNYC News
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Black Holes : There is nothing comforting about the 9/11 memorial : Slate
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With semi-precious stones and mirrors, Red Fort hopes to return to Mughal era : Express India
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Spanish Cities Pin Hopes on Big Arts Complexes : The New York Times
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Vertical school in Hackney maximises social interaction and provides inspirational learning place : World Architecture.com
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Does Shipping Container Architecture Make Sense? : Tree Hugger
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