March 2011
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The Global City And The Global Slum →
Article by Saskia Sassen
/via humanscalecities
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Global Village Construction Set
The ideas that guide our production of the GVCS are:
Open Source - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.
Low-Cost - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an...
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Map of How Manhattan’s Grid Grew - Interactive Map... →
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"En África no existe noción de lo urbano" - David...
Gracias a elcontexto por compartir esta entrevista de David Adjave:
Británico, de origen tanzano, considera que “la arquitectura es una performance”. Es el arquitecto de los young british artists, con los que colabora en diversos proyectos. Ahora se enfrenta a su mayor reto: el nuevo Museo Smithsonian de Washington
Es joven, guapo y negro. David Adjaye es perfectamente consciente de ser un...
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Manhattan's Grid
‘Henry James condemned it a century ago as a “primal topographic curse.” Rem Koolhaas, the architect and urbanist, countered that its two-dimensional form created “undreamed-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy.” More recently, two historians described its map, regardless of its flaws, as “the single most important document in New York City’s development.”
Two hundred years ago on Tuesday,...
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The Dubai in me.
A documentary film by Christian Von Borries.
Source
Thanks to @dpr_barcelona
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Re:CP by Cedric Price | via @abitare
/via: ethel-baraona
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