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“Should not we reconsider the term ‘smart cities’? If we speak about people in...”
– Someone from the audience at Social Cities of Tomorrow conference in Amsterdam. (from Shareable)
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Using Sustainable Systems Thinking in the Poorest... →
Last September, the New York Times ran a story highlighting my hometown. Reading, PA had officially “earned the unwelcome distinction of having the largest share of its residents living in poverty” among cities with populations greater than 65,000. Roughly 43% of our residents live in poverty – a staggering 36,000 people in my community of 88,000. Less than two months later, city...
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WatchBancroft School / BNIM Architects & Make It Right
A new redevelopment project will transform a closed Kansas City schoolhouse into a new vibrant center for a community. The $14 million project will convert the 103-year-old brick school building into 29 affordable apartments with a 6,250-square-foot community center on the main floor. A new building with 21 apartments will also developed,...
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DESSAU INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE: CAD Logic WS2011... →
This study investigates the use of minimal quantities of material and the proper distribution of workload between the team members to create the final installation. The final model consists of a repitition of the same component N number of times.
The research was initiated with…
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“What if we could see and interact with the output of the code directly? Why...”
– Emanuels Journal: The Tools We Need vs. The Tools We Build.
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Redesigning the mall for public spaces, parks,... →
“Most cities, looking at shrinking budgets, cannot afford to subsidize or knock down ailing malls, and healthy retailers that are expanding — like H&M and Nordstrom Rack — generally will not open at depressed locations. So, as though they were upholstering polyester chairs from the 1960s with Martha Stewart fabric, urban planners and community activists are trying to spruce up and rethink...
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DESSAU INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE: CITC... →
Wednesday, 25 January 2011
WS2011 Finals
CITC II…adaptive growth processes - Liss C. Werner
This semester Codes in the Clouds II explored Adaptive Growth Processes through material behavior as rule-based organisational systems. Starting from classic Science Fiction…
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WatchOZ MAGAZINE VOLUME 33, 2011
anOtherArchitect was just recently published in the latest OZ journal. OZ is an award winning journal of the College of Architecture at Kansas State University and is released every year. The current issue, AUGMENT, features well known architects such as Frank Barkow (Barkow-Leibinger, Berlin) and Patrick Schumacher (Zaha Hadid Architects, London)....